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Hi Ray, I found a way to listen to BBC stations on Western attic phone. I've got Alexa set up on my phone. If you ask her to play the BBC stations that you want she'll do it. Best wishes Mrs Villa
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So, the long promised shutdown of the Shoutcast 128Kbs streams happened yesterday as promised - one promise I wish had been posponed for a while longer. My listening now to BBC Stream is on two devices: the Stream 3 for National BBc and some other staitons; Synapptic adapted phone for the rest. One other device which I'll mention at the end. Took me some time to figure out what HumanWare have done with the UK Streams. Entering the Humanware playlists with the hash key we are presented with the familiar old list of radio streams from around the world, the UK being under the various flavours of English streams. We are given all the BBC national streams with the addition of many commercial and some international radio streams such as Mushroom FM and Mushroom Escape, some 30 or more streams in all. On pressing the 5 (info) key to identify a stream I get for example, BBC Radio 4 Extra Tironi". Trioni is what it sounds like to me, but it could be trial only. Does anyone know if that is what it is saying? The URL is spelled out pointing to a resource at Humanware.com and it would be worth searching out that link to discover more. Like Oliver Twist I would like to ask Humanware and possibly BBC Sounds, Please Sir, can I have some more? Local radio, including BBC radio Foyle? All of these I had on the old Stream.I know some sort of revised feeds list for the BBC stations is said to be down the road, but who knows when. So, for the local radio feeds - and Radio Foyle - I go to my favourites on the Synaptic adapted phone I have. I can call up all the stations via a list or voice commands. Not as convenient as with the old Stream, but doable with more faffing about. I do wonder if Synapptic can be pursuaded to introduce some sort of keypad driven alternative to bring back to me really quick immediate switching of stations. I can but suggest it to them. Finally, an odd one out that perhaps proves a point though I am not sure what this points to. My Roberts Kitchen radio still gets the local radio presets I had help assigning some years ago. Some time back Roberts did update this radio's firmware to point to another database of feeds including the BBC though I do not know the source that Roberts get their feeds from. All the local radio feeds intact and streaming with the same sort of delay as the streams I am hearing on the Synapptic phone. All this points to the distinct possibility of bringing the same to the Stream and very likely the Sense Player as well. For me, the sooner the better. Hope all that's been useful, to someone. Ray. feeds. |
