This week the BBC turned off their Windows Media streams. In English this means that the particular way the BBC provided their live radio stations over the Internet changed. This broke the BBC Live Radio 2 program.
However, the BBC provide a different way to access the radio stations, so this weekend I’ve switched the BBC Live Radio program to using this new mechanism for the stations that broke, and it all seems to work. This doesn’t require a new version of the program, since which stream to use is controlled from the WebbIE site.
It also means that you gain BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra and the World Service is working again, which is good.
I notice that the local stations kept working, so I’ve left them alone: it’s entirely likely they’ll break at some point and I’ll have to amend them. But there you go. It would be great if the BBC told me about changes, so do lobby them! Mail the BBC Trust.
Thank you for the fix, live radio is now working fine.
However I still cannot get radio1 and radio2 on the I player. Other programmes seem to be working ok.
Hello, I’ve been unable to access both bbc live radio2 and bbc i player8 there is no audio on any one of them. The one says opening audio and nothing happends, the other one says opening audio with a website link. I’m not sure if it’s because of my slow internet or anything else. Any ideas?
Hello, I’ve been unable to access both bbc live radio2 and bbc i player8 there is no audio on any one of them. The one says opening audio and nothing happends,
the other one says opening audio with a website link. I’m not sure if it’s because of my slow internet or anything else. Any ideas?
Hi Alistair. I hate to say this but the bbc local radio stations no longer work as well. I have been trying to listen to my local radio on the listen again thing and nothing.
OK, I’ve now updated the BBC local radio stations, so every BBC station should now work in BBC Live Radio 2.
However, the BBC iPlayer Radio 8 program is completely broken because the BBC has turned off their Windows Media service. They’ve contacted me, thanks to user complaints, so I hope to get a fix some time next week!