On 08/05/14 18:07, Chris Green wrote:
I'm looking for a way to (simply) play BBC Radio 4 and other BBC stations on my desktop machine. I used to use radiotray but updating to xubuntu 14.04 seems to have broken that completely (it was always a *bit* flakey).
I don't want a full blown music player really, though one that's easy to configure to play BBC would be OK.
I *definitely* don't want a list of thousands of stations to select from which rarely includes BBC anyway, I just want to be able to enter a BBC radio URL and hear the radio.
I have clementine installed but I can't see how to get that to play URLs, it looks like it should but seems to be broken when you try it. Like so many other players I've found.
I use Guayadeque Music Player which I believe is in the Ubuntu repository.. One of the options under the Radio tab is "User Defined" . Right click on it and click on "+ add radio". Type in name that you want to call it and use the aac url below:
Radio 1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1_aaclca.pls Radio 2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r2_aaclca.pls Radio 3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r3_aaclca.pls Radio 4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r4_aaclca.pls Radio 5 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r5l_aaclca.pls 6 Music http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r6_aaclca.pls Radio 1xtra http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1x_aaclca.pls Radio 4 Extra http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r4x_aaclca.pls Radio 5 Live Sports Extra http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r5lsp_aaclca.pls Asian Network http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/ran_aaclca.pls