Web Radio List Missing Countries & Stations

Help and Support
1

My dad wants to listen to BBC Radio3, over internet, plugged in to an amp.
I thought this would be ideal, as I have just recently set up volumio myself.
I have under web radio, by country, a list of 7 continents, and under Europe, 50 odd countries, and under UK National networks, BBC, a list of all the stations. And they work

So I got him a Pi with all the parts required, however on his setup, there are only 4 continents, and under Europe, only 4 counties, and under BBC, 4 folders, with no stations

so, erm, what? is going on?

By the way, we are both in the UK

2

Any ideas here? I am really keen to get this up and running, and don’t understand why the continents/countries/stations lists are different for two identical installations!

3

Have you looked under Volumio Selection? I’ve just checked my x86 and Tinkerboard versions and the BBC stations are listed there.

4

Yes, thanks, they are there. I guess that solves the immediate issue, but still odd that there’s a different list.

BTW: it’s playing at 128, I thought BBC had a higher quality stream?

5

I started to enter the stations I want to hear manualy. It is a little less comfortable but reliable :slight_smile:

6

Thanks! I am still trying to figure out where to find a higher quality stream, I was pretty sure BBC were doing higher than 128 bit rate streams somewhere…

7

The BBC are still broadcasting some higher bitrate programmes for UK consumption (have a look here), but they aren’t handled properly by Volumio (can’t stop the stream & still only at 128kbps rather than 320kbps), or are not handled at all (mpeg-dash). I think the latter would need addressing by mpd upstream.

8

Thanks for that list link, very useful. Both the worldwide links for R3 work for me on Volumio, so I am guessing the higher bit rate ones will also work in the UK.