BBC Radio 1 Stream on the iPhone
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As i have found out, Windows Media Streams and Real Audio Streams are not natively supported on the iPhone… while browsing my so far favorite application (Tuner - which is currently missing from the app store as it happens) i found the BBC Radio 1 Stream Relay (192k)
I’ve been on a few forums and people are asking if this is possible…
When Tuner is back on App Store i strongly recommend you purchase it - it was only £2.99
UPDATE - 19th July 15:40
I’ve tried this stream again today and it appears to be unavailable. I’ll keep testing it throughout the day and report back my findings.
Nigel Says:
Any news?
Posted on July 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
admin Says:
Hey Nigel,
Well, the Tuner app is back on the iTunes App Store (although it has now gone up to £3.49 from £2.99…..
… although the Radio 1 stream appears to have gone for good… i bookmarked it at the time and the bookmark has now been changed to “TranceTraffic Radio”
I’ve sent a support request to Nullriver though who wrote Tuner, have to wait and see.
http://www.nullriver.com
Posted on July 21st, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Paulo Says:
thats a shame! feel like ive wasted £3.49 now! someone give us a shout on here when its back up, cheers. Ive gotta listen to blinkin virign radio on my bus journey instead now! hmph
Posted on August 3rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Ebay hot items Says:
Very interesting blog, i have added it to my fovourites, greetings
Posted on August 10th, 2008 at 11:19 am
David Says:
Any news on this? I’m guessing the people who hosted the stream might’ve been given a slight telling off from the BBC, or maybe they were just using it for testing, Who knows.
Like this blog, but by the way, you can use the home button and sleep button at the same time to take screenshots of your iPhone!
Posted on August 12th, 2008 at 11:08 am
admin Says:
Hey David,
Still no news i’m afraid… i’ve been a little busy with work to keep looking into it.
I didn’t get a response back from the authors of Tuner
Thanks for your comment…and yeh, since this post i did figure that out!
Thanks again
garry
Posted on August 12th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Brett Says:
Can you post the BBC Radio 1 Stream Relay URL? Thanks!
Posted on August 19th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
admin Says:
I’m afraid not, that stream is not available any more.
I’m constantly looking for a new method though, and will post it here when i do.
Posted on August 29th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
lol Says:
Please do… we are desperate!
Live, 3G enabled TV and radio on the iphone (with a secondary stream for Edge/GPRS connections) would be absolutely mindblowingly awesome.
Apple, o2, the BBC. There is still time. Step up and make a change.
Posted on September 1st, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Liam Says:
Just got an iPhone 3G and am surprised there is no real player or similar app that will allow me to listen to BBC radio stations via their website.
I am hoping this will be sorted before the cricket tours of india and the caribbean. Need the live stuff, replayed is pretty pointless.
Posted on September 19th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
….my first tech blog » BBC Radio 1 Live on iPhone - SOLUTION FOUND Says:
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Dave Says:
Guys, Ftream advise was certainly well placed. You can indeed configure Iphone Live Streaming BBC radio from the Fstream app.
Download Fstream from Itunes onto your iphone.
I did this by EDITING AN EXISTING MMS radio station as I couldn’t add a new one due to there being no : (colon) on the keyboard used to edit the stream.
Change the name to BBC radio (2 or 4 or whatever)
Then after the MMS:// type the following:
(It’s long so don’t get it wrong or it won’t work!!)
wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/radio2_nb_e1s1?bbc-uid=f4c72f0f6e3e846974e262486010633984c740a49010715444ef1052ac08a8ec&
If you change the
wms/radio2/radio2_
for
wms/radio4/radio4_
You get radio 4
I haven’t tried the others but I have had these working today.
now, I am assuming that UID stands for unique ID, so I don’t know if these change on a daily basis, or if multiple streams can work with 1 UID? Let’s find out though!!
Anyway, BBC Radio can DEFINATELY be configured to work with FStream.
Happy listening…
Dave
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
AJMegaughin Says:
Or, you can just enter
MMS://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/radio2_nb_e1s1
i.e. the Uid is not required !
Incidentally, the colon (:) is on the numeric keyboard.
Posted on September 24th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
J Says:
not working buddy with FStream ad this is really frusterating….. ;-/
would be really greatful if some1 could help me get these 3 links to work on FStream
BBC Asian Network
http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/rams/asiannet_hi.asx
Sunrise Radio
mms://193.218.160.20/Sunrise
Club Asia UK
http://wms.clubasiaonline.com/calive01
Posted on September 26th, 2008 at 5:04 am
Glenn Says:
I have just tried the fstream app and the work around that dave published works A1
You have to take your time to enter the url correctly but it works well, although fstream stops working as soon as the iPhone screen sleeps.
and i did find the colon : so you can create new favorites to incude other bbc radio feeds
I had radio 1 and radio 2 working before i posted this
its not perfect due to the shut down with screen sleep but its definitely a start!
here’s the url again
mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/radio2_nb_e1s1?bbc-uid=f4c72f0f6e3e846974e262486010633984c740a49010715444ef1052ac08a8ec&
like Dave says be careful and get the type right
change the “radio2/radio2″ to “radio1/radio1″ for radio 1
Good luck
Posted on September 28th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Adam Says:
Hey - just to make your life easier, leave off the ?bbc-uid=xyz bit and it’ll work fine
Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
GazHay Says:
Can you indicate how you got this URL as it doesn’t work for me - probably down to the UID.
Thanks
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 11:25 am
Sam B. Says:
Dave,
I tried your method to get Radio 1 (found this site via Google), and after typing in that lengthy URL, it worked perfectly! I’ve been dying to listen to these stations on my iPhone; it had actually been my #1 complaint about the phone for a while now. Thanks!
Sam
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Justin Rosenberg Says:
Dave, can’t thank you enough. I’ve been trying to achieve this for months - a massive enhancement of the iphone experience!
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Josh Says:
Fstream has enhanced it’s ability to parse asx files and now supports playing while the screen is locked. However I think part of the problem some of us are having is that BBC seems to only do teh MWA streams for some services outside the UK; while they stream them all in real player.
Posted on October 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Mike Scotting Says:
Hi, Thanks for the post, this is certainly a step forward. I was just wondering if anyone had been able to find the paths for any of the other BBC radio sites? I would really like to find 6 Music and 5Live / 5Live Sports Extra if at all possible?
Cheers.
Posted on October 8th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Luke Says:
managed to get radio 1 working perfectly fine. the fact that the iphone didn’t have access to radio 1 infuriated me. having it working after your help makes the phone that much better.
thank you
Posted on October 8th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
harry Says:
I can confirm you don’t need to use the UID. However; in order to get mine working I had to change the \use cellular network\ setting.
Posted on October 13th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Ian Says:
I tried the link suggested by Dave when I was in England. It worked fine on my IPhone using the WiFi link to the internet. I did not try it using 3G outside the house. On my return to Germany it does not work on 3G or WiFi. It tries to connect for a few seconds but there is no download and it then disconnects.
Has anybody out there gopt any idea why this should be happening and can I fix it ?
Thanks for any help - Ian.
Posted on October 15th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Steve Says:
Hi!
Does anyone know the format of Five Live’s URL, following the mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/radio2_nb_e1s1? syntax?
I’ve tried replacing the above example with “radio5/radio5″ and “fivelive/fivelive”.
Radios 2 & 4 work fine for me.
Cheers,
Steve
Posted on October 17th, 2008 at 11:02 am
William Says:
FStream worked perfectly for me (without entering the UID) and I have BBC Radio 1-4 on my iPhone.
I’m now trying to find a BBC Radio 5 link, which is tough :p
Posted on October 19th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Marineblue Says:
Hi everybody, been following this thread with keen interest in the run up to getting an iPhone. I found “WunderRadio” in the app store, and it delivers BBC presets just fine, even when the screen sleeps. It’s GBP 3.49 but has a heap of positive reviews to back it up. You can even toggle bitrates (if available) but so far, and despite using it mainly at home (i.e. with wi-fi) it seems to maintain a 3G connection, with correspondingly low bitrate. More than adequate though.
On another note, having poor FM reception where I live, and a couple of Bose iPod docks, it’s brilliant being able to use them now as “internet radios” without forking out for yet more kit.
Posted on October 21st, 2008 at 10:34 am
Ryan Says:
Aparently the Windows media files do only work while you are in the UK. Any ideas on how to get the streams while being outside the UK?
Cheers,
Ryan
Posted on November 2nd, 2008 at 2:16 am
ticia Says:
I’m with Ryan and Ian on this one. Is there any way to get it to work out of the UK?
Posted on November 24th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Alex Adams Says:
Works just fine all i had to do is edit Radio Clasic URL to
mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio1/radio1_nb_e1s1? syntax?
And boom BBC Radio 1 Live Exelent Thanks Every one for the link
Posted on December 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Tansy Says:
Thanks so much - got my iphone yesterday couldnt belive it when i read you couldnt listen to Radio 1!!
Anyway i have downloaded Fstreama dn put the URl in and am lisnteing to it now - cheers guys!!
Posted on December 8th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Alex Thomas Says:
Marineblue - your are officially the man!
WunderRadio works a treat!
Posted on December 12th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Paul Says:
The BBC have a page containing the urls of lost of stations, and a tutorial for Fstream.
Works great!
http://www.bbcstreams.com/
Tiptopp
Posted on December 16th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Chris Barton Says:
BBC Radio iPhone Streams are available here!
Posted on December 16th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Daz Says:
Great link fstream working like a treat.
BTW paul (Tiptopp), that page aint been published by the beeb!
Posted on December 16th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Jed Says:
Has anyone been able to get Radio One to play outside the UK?
Can I make a request that if you post a reply here, please write what country you are in. It would be very helpful.
-Jed (New York, USA)
Posted on December 22nd, 2008 at 5:17 am
richard Johnson Says:
I have tried all the urls’s for the BBC radio streams but none of them work in Australia
The bbcstreams site urls also does not work and I have F stream
If anyone know url’s for working BBC streams I can use in Australia it would be appreciated
Thanks
Posted on December 27th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Jaxx Says:
Hi, is anyone else having problems with getting a message saying it’s disconnected and i should check my connection to the internet?? I am using an ipod touch and it’s connected by wifi so should be ok!!!
does anyone have any ideas about solutions????
thanks!!
Posted on December 30th, 2008 at 2:37 am
the-uki Says:
BBC World Service:
add following link in FStream (to do that you must go to Favorits, then click on Modify, and then add.
BBC Radio World Service
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/tx/nb/live_news_au_nb.asx
Posted on December 30th, 2008 at 9:49 am