A combination of the UK link and a VPN has fixed it for me. Thanks for the responses.

@bpsib

Thank you so much!

How do you know all this?

Just wanted to say: Thank you! (and to all the commenters, whose information is very valuable, to stay up to date) :-)

BTW: I seem to be able to easily connect to the URLs of the second playlist with Winamp5 on Windows from Germany.

Hi I cannot get BBC Five Live Sports Extra urls to work at all in the UK. Has anyone managed to get Sports Extra UK or non-UK? Thanks!

Hi all could anyone help please? Has anyone got an m3u8 link for bbc news channel, bbc five live, bbc five live sports extra and itv1 main channel?
thank you so much in advance
It’s a great great help

Hi all could anyone help please? Has anyone got an m3u8 link for bbc news channel, bbc five live, bbc five live sports extra and itv1 main channel?
thank you so much in advance
It’s a great great help

Yes mate I will send News Channel link. Also, has anyone got the BBC World News HD link. I live in the UK

Read this: Use and contribute to Wikidata instead

For those searching big lists of audio streams of radio stations: It is possible to get a big list using a SQL-like language from Wikidata. The following SPARQL query gets the radio stations in United Kingdom along with their corresponding streaming URLs. The query was executed in this site.

SELECT ?queryLabel ?stream
WHERE {
  ?query wdt:P31 wd:Q14350;
         wdt:P17 wd:Q145;
         wdt:P963 ?stream.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en,[AUTO_LANGUAGE]". }
}
LIMIT 5

For those who don't know about Wikidata: It is a sister project of Wikipedia. In this site, each concept (e.g. radio stations, countries, companies, etc.) is treated as an entity. Each entity can have properties. For example, BBC Radio 1 (link to the entity) has the following properties (see image below)

As you can see in the bottom, there's a property called streaming media URL which stores the streaming URL of radio stations.

In general, everything in Wikidata is treated as an entity with properties. For example, the following is a list of entities in Wikidata of the concepts mentioned in this text

For this reason and more reasons, please consider contributing to Wikidata by updating the audio stream of the radio stations that you know instead of creating more Github Gists. More useful examples on using SPARQL in the Wikidata knowledge base can be found in this site.

Hi! please try https://play.streamafrica.net/ originallt a url shortener, you can use this to wrap your links for permanent use

Hi stevenprisley10 thank you for you’re response…. Again apologies for for not understanding all the chat (I’m not very tech) have you got bbc one and bbc two as well as bbc news channel too pls? I’ve tried a few links in my dads machine but doesn’t se to take them :-(
Sorry for being a pain all
Thank you in advance

@rdrg109 Interesting idea, but:

• Wikidata does not have an interface for exporting to playlists you can instantly use in your favourite player.
• We can see that most BBC streams available there are just links to BBC Sounds which means that they are no livestream URLs.
• Wikidata is not a portal for radio fans, so most people won't ever find the URLs and your work in the end is wasted. :(

@rdrg109 Interesting idea, but:

• Wikidata does not have an interface for exporting to playlists you can instantly use in your favourite player.
• We can see that most BBC streams available there are just links to BBC Sounds which means that they are no livestream URLs.
• Wikidata is not a portal for radio fans, so most people won't ever find the URLs and your work in the end is wasted. :(

I have a set of up-to-date UK and Irish radio data available at www.radiofeeds.co.uk
In the past, I've provided a parseable feed for Reciva Radios until they closed down their service.
I still provide a feed to the wonderful Logitech Squeezeboxes.

If I can have an understanding of what "radio fans" want and what they're using it for I might be able to create something that can be parsed/understood by whatever device/app you're all using.
As already mentioned above, I've created a tool for mplayer (as I'm assuming many home projects use mplayer as the base handler for webstreams).

I am a little bit of our outlier for this discussion. But let me share my use case. I maintain a personal collection of "hi-res" radio stations. My criteria is MP3-320 or better and mainly I am interested in audiophile FLAC streams. The challenge is to keep this collection up-to-date and in a format that is ubiquitous. I use a Dropbox folder share which I make available to all my devices. Then I run a bulk import of .pls or .m3u files, provided the app allows imports (only a few do: Foobar, VLC). Any advanced datastore should be able to output simple PLS or M3U format.

I use LMS, Foobar, VLC, Volumio, USB Pro (Android only). Some of these apps don't even have an import function, let alone an API pull function. For LMS, Volumio and USB Pro, I end up maintaining the radio stations URL's manually, which is painful. For LMS, any interface that automatically populates "Favorites" would be welcome. I am not sure of this helps the intended project scope.

For a while this was useful: someone created this URL radio list, but it is now hopelessly outdated: http://radiobit.50webs.com/

Cheers,

@vinnielo1:

If I can have an understanding of what "radio fans" want and what they're using it for I might be able to create something that can be parsed/understood by whatever device/app you're all using.

Could you just place ALL stations in a single PLS file (or per category/quality)? This is understood by most players. Or M3U and M3U8. Or did I misunderstand your offer? Thanks.

As of today BBC Radio London has stopped working, is there an alternate link or will this be sadly permanent now...
http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_london

This'll be due to the winter games. The stream will return after.

That was my first impression also, but there is no Sports programming on BBC Radio London at the moment. it neither works on www.radiofeeds.co.uk, but the BBC Sounds app works. Also BBC Radio Three Counties is not working via the stream, I fear the BBC have cut off all local radio station streams.

I would've explained their decision and which of the streams this affects, but it seems you've made up your own mind so I won't bother.

When I tune in I get a pre recorded message saying the stations are unavailable due to technical or contractual problems.

http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_london
http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_three_counties_radio

So they are still there...

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@apex22:

As of today BBC Radio London has stopped working, is there an alternate link or will this be sadly permanent now...
http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_london

It's because the BBC have geo-locked the local radio streams again to the UK during the Winter Olympics so the international streams have the pre-recorded message. They also did this last year during the Olympics and Paralympics. The international streams will be available again after the Winter Olympics.

You can get BBC London for now at http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_london.m3u8 and BBC Three Counties at http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_three_counties_radio.m3u8 as long as you are in the UK.

That cannot be so, because I cannot access these streams from within the UK either.

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A compatible player is needed to play them. Many don't support the HLS (.m3u8) streams.

I dont use the HLS (.m3u8) streams. Or a player.

@bpsib Many thanks for assuaging my fears, and also thanks for providing working links in the meantine.

Hello, can someone give me a working link to Nation Radio Cardiff, Wales? thank you

This Works! Thanks Alot!

If you mean the station that is listed as Nation Radio (South East Wales), these two links work for me:- http://listen-nation.sharp-stream.com/tcnation.mp3?ref=RF (128k stereo) http://edge-audio-06-thn.sharp-stream.com:80/nationwalesdab.mp3 (320k stereo) From: Leth4Dead @.> Sent: 16 April 2022 08:11 To: bpsib @.> Cc: gedye @.>; Comment @.> Subject: Re: bpsib/BBC-Radio-HLS-UK.m3u @Leth4Dead commented on this gist.
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@vinnielo1:

If I can have an understanding of what "radio fans" want and what they're using it for I might be able to create something that can be parsed/understood by whatever device/app you're all using.

Could you just place ALL stations in a single PLS file (or per category/quality)? This is understood by most players. Or M3U and M3U8. Or did I misunderstand your offer? Thanks.

I prefer OPML to M3U. M3U seems to be more for static applications rather than one that's updated often by pulled off the web.

What I offer right now is a direct pointer to all UK and Irish station stream directly from mplayer, so you don't need to know their stream address(es). All you need to know is the station's unique three-letter code as found at http://lsn.to/list
Is this of any use to anyone?