Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Elvidge Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: Are there any simple BBC internet radio programs for the Pi? Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:34:48 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:34:48 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fba3339c458d9e1adb83423b28468b15"; logging-data="37069"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+EV35X36PDrSqQOvchqQ124ZSxKwtBNt4=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Lightning/5.4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:GsES6PaG9SUlDsU+TP5pyCMXqww= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1841 On 28/08/2024 at 11:53, Chris Green wrote: > Now that the BBC no longer uses Shoutcast are there any internet radio > programs for the Pi that can receive BBC internet radio? > As this didn't seem to propagate when I sent it originally: I use command-line vlc in the background (--daemon). E.g. /usr/bin/vlc --config=/home/chris/internetradio/vlcrc.pulse --no-video --no-media-library --daemon --pidfile=/var/lock/vlc-radio.pid --volume-step 128 --playlist-autostart --intf=http --http-password=xxxxxxxxx --http-port=8080 "Radio station URL here" Radio station URLs are available here: https://garfnet.org.uk/cms/2023/10/29/latest-bbc-hls-radio-streams/ -- Chris Elvidge, England I WILL NOT CONDUCT MY OWN FIRE DRILLS