[ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

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Robert Longstaff wrote:
>> They do, but all the Windows Media content from the Beeb is DRM'd (as 
>> far as I can see) and AFAIK there are a) no Linux media players 
>> (including mplayer!) that can play Windows Media DRM'd files and b) no 
>> way of stripping the DRM without using Windows.
> 
> I don't know if the Radio 4 stream is an exception but the following
> plays quite happily using mplayer (with the right codecs installed);
> 
> mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/bbc_ami/radio4/radio4_bb_live_eq1_sl0
> 
> Maybe similar URLs can be found for the other stations?

European radio stations:  http://www.listenlive.eu/index.html

BBC: (I haven't tried all of these, but the ones I have tried do work; 
you need gstreamer-plugins-ugly):

BBC Radio 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/wm_asx/aod/radio1_hi.asx
BBC 1Xtra: http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/realmedia/1xtra_hi.asx
BBC Radio 2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/wm_asx/aod/radio2_hi.asx
BBC Radio 3: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wm_asx/aod/radio3_hi.asx
BBC Radio 4 (FM): http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/wm_asx/aod/radio4.asx
BBC Radio 4 (LW): http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/wm_asx/aod/radio4_lw.asx
BBC Radio Five Live - UK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live.asx
BBC Radio Five Live - International: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live_int.asx
BBC Radio Five Live Sports Extra UK: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live_sportsextra.asx
BBC Radio Five Live Sports Extra - International: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/l...sextra_int.asx
BBC 6Music: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/ram/6music_hi.asx
BBC7: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/realplayer/bbc7_hi.asx

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