BBC Radio Stations in iTunes

Martin Crawley1 wrote:
Widgets allow me to add any BBC radio station to my desktop, I can listen via the BBC website & iPlayer but is there any way to add some of these stations to iTunes and thus stream it around my house?

Hi,

Sneaked these in didn't they. In my mind, it's worthy of an announcement akin to that when Apple finally secured The Beatles stuff.

"I've created a playlist and synced this to my apple tv"

I'm struggling here though. I've created a test playlist exclusively for radio stations on my Mac Mini and it's showing up in playlists on my ATV2 as containing 3 items but subsequently when accessing the playlist it says "There are no songs in this library". Any clues?

Cheers

Thanks, I found the same thing a week or so ago. But now these stations no longer work, and I suspect the BBC or Apple has deliberately discontinued this availability. It would be nice to know why.

For the past 2 days I have not been able to stream bbc through apple tv, now I cannot stream through itunes internet radio.

Does anyone know why?

Same here. I thought I'd struck gold and found one of the greatest features of my Apple set-up... Streaming BBC Radio through iTunes. PLEASE Apple, get this working again! I'll also make a plea to BBC to do what they can (if the issue is on their side). Please everyone else do this too!

Seems that the issue may lie with the BBC. None of their AAC+ streams are working at present over any application so fingers X'd that it's just a temporary hitch and they've not turned them off permanently. (Wouldn't make any sense if they have as AAC+ is a much more economic use of bandwidth than wma).

I have attempted to contat the BBC for clarification but no response as of yet. Anyone gets any news, please share.

Cheers

Well, would you know it, you must have fixed the problem. I thought I'd have another go, and there we are, at least Radio 3 high quality version is working again, I haven't tried the others yet.

Just tried, and no luck here. But I'm also having no luck streaming any stations (Radio Paradise which has always been solid). May be another issue for me.

Not sure why you used a widget, or need to. Just now, June 4th, 1300 ADT, opened iTunes on my iBook G4 Mac OS 10.5.8 with iTunes 10.2.2 (12). Opened the "Radio" library, expanded "News/Talk radio", found a BBC station ("BBC Radio 5 Live" out of a bunch of BBC choices), "Clicked-and-Dragged" it to the bottom of my "Playlist", then opened the "Music" library, clicked and dragged it there, too, from "Playlist", though it stays in "Playlist". iTunes puts it in the bottom with other radio stations because it labeled it "unknown album" (as it does all radio stations i have there) in the far left "Album" column, and as "BBC 5 Live" in the "Name" column. I like my radio stations grouped, and at the bottom is "easiest found", so I've never tried to rename them. It plays from either place when you double-click it. Is this a non-standard way to do this, and therefore a "workaround"? Or is it the standard way when you don't use widgets? I stumbled on it by accident very early in my iTunes learning curve and never changed it, as it works for me.

I have a CBC radio station, Classical Minnesota Public Radio, KSKA (Anchorage, Alaska) and a bunch of bluegrass stations set up this way.

I don't have a whole-house sound system, and therefore no "remote" control, so can't speak to that issue.

We have a brand new iMac with newest OpSys and - probably - newer iTunes, and haven't tried it there as it is in use and will be for awhile by someone else in the household. And, anyway, don't use it for music, yet.

KasilofLeif

Yes, we're back in the room. Let's hope they're here to stay this time.

I was delighted when I found that BBC Radio 3 had popped up again after an absence of many years on iTunes. The HD stream was particularly welcome, as Radio 3's own HD stream is restricted to UK users only. In addition, the direct normal Radio 3 stream from the BBC Radio 3 Home Page or via iPlayer has not been working properly since around 1st of June. It sounds like a badly tuned 1959 transistor radio playing through 25 metres of steel drain pipe. BBC say they are aware of the issue and are working on it. Since it has been going on for nearly two weeks now, obviously they are not working very hard at it.

However my delight was short lived on iTunes, as it would now appear that the BBC in their wisdom, have switched these streams off as of yesterday. Neither the low 48k stream nor the high 320k stream are connecting. All other streams are fine, so it is the BBC not me Luckily, the BBC seem to have forgotten to switch off an old WMA 192k stream, which is available here: www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r3.asx . I think you may need to have Flip for Mac freebie installed to listen to this but at the moment it is working just fine on my MacBook Pro in France.

Wilson