On Fri, 2018-08-31 at 08:48 +0000, squeezecenter- [email protected] wrote:
> I'm based in the UK and finding that BBC iPlayer will not play > 'Listen Live' streams - again since about 13 August. 'Listen Live > (Non UK)' plays fine as do streams from the Radio plugin - it just > seems to be BBC iPlayer 'Listen Live'. > Like you, I'm in the UK. > When a Listen Live station is selected LMS finds the station and it > looks as if it's starting to play but then aborts before anything > plays. > These haven't worked since the BBC decided to hang a password on iPlayer. My Touch has no problem playing live streamed BBC radio, but won't touch any 'listen again' recordings, i.e. anything that shows up in the BBC website schedules or programs linked to by 'Listen now' tags on web pages. However, I can listen to these on my laptop (Firebird/Fedora Linux on a Lenovo T440) BUT I have to log into the BBC to do that (requires signing up and a password) and I think this is the issue - you can't login from a Touch. The result is listenable (just - on its builtin speakers) but is obviously hugely inferior to my main listening set-up (Touch, Quad 33/303/FM3, Celestion Ditton 44s). There is a (partial) workround - many of these programs offer MP3 downloads at 64kb or 128kb, so grab one of these from the website and put it where LMS can find it (in my case on an old AMD PC running Fedora Linux). This problem is unlikely to go away until one of the following happens: - the BBC gives up on its annoying login-to-listen ideas - the Touch maintainers figure out a moderately secure way to store a username/password combination and send it when the BBC requests it. - the BBC reintroduces a radio license that allows, among other things, unlimited, unpassworded access to programs on 'listen again' for subscribers. I'd prefer this because (a) it would be a permanent solution and (b) the (small) cash flow would remind the BBC that it does have radio enthusiasts who shouldn't be ignored as they seem to be at present. Personally, I'm not holding my breath for any of this to happen, but I do miss the BBC's 'listen again' service. Martin PS: Tried just now (31Aug18 12:55) to verify that the Touch still streams internet radio and failed - 'RADIO' vanished from the menu after doing nothing for a while and 'Favourites' is also inoperative, so it looks very much as though Logitech's support server has gone TITSUP (Total Inability To Stream User-selected Programs). _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
