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Well done I thought initially you had achieved this on the Stream 2, but re-reading it I am not so sure - were these steps taken on a Stream 3? David Griffith -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rea Lists Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2023 2:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [dap-uk] BBC HLS streams on VR Stream and other players Hi, to a very quiet list. I have thought for a long time it should be possible to play BBC HLS streams on various specailist players since the demise of the Shoutcast streams. Well, it turns out I was right. Curtacy of a post to the TAVIP list from David Griffiths, I did a search for the Radio Manchester HLS stream. I searched for BBC radio hls streams on get-hub this search turned up all the BBC national and local radio streams. I then modified a playlist as provided by Pele West some time back. (I am no tech guru, and much less a programmer!) I am going to paste in the text of the trial playlist I created at the end of this message. With reference to the VR Stream, this text should be saved to the route of an SD card to be inserted into the Stream,but you should be able to see the SD card in the VR3 player by connecting it to your computer. Having copied the file below to the SD card, making sure the Stream is online, go to the internet radio function of the Stream with presses of key 1 Press the number 7 menu key and you should be able to arrow to the import playlist option. Press hash, bottom righ key of the numberic keys, and all playlists should be imported, including the below list which you will have given a name of your choice, but ending in .pls This is the experimental list I imported to the Stream. Much of what is here might not be necessary, but the template I used looks much like a programmer's code script. [playlist] NumberOfEntries=2 File1= Title1=RadioManchester length1=-1 File2= Title2=Times Radio Length2=-1 Version=1 These streams are live at the moment but for how long, who knows? these may well be the streams the BBC Sounds app uses so, if they are, then fair to assume they should be around for some time. Obviously those who prefer s=wiping and tapping and searching in the Sounds app can carry on doing that, but it does look like the links found at Get-Hub should form the basis of playlists for the Stream and other newer players. Not sure if I really have the time or appropriate skill to create full playlists, but for anyone wjp does, then that would be very welcome. In fact I do hope Humanware come up with playlists - including BBC local radio - even though local radio is now to become a ghost of its former self. Ray. |
