BBC main radio channels go missing on Radio Browser

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This is mainly a post for UK radio listeners.

Most BBC main radio stations have disappeared from the radio browser - both in the UK and elsewhere. There was some news about the BBC stopping streaming stations outside of the UK, but unless the Radio Browser is hosted outside of the UK, it shouldn’t have affected the browser in the UK.

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There have been reports that the whole radio browser API is down. Radio Browser "unknown error"

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There is an open issue in GitHub on this issue (which I am also experiencing) :cry:
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/134262
The BBC HLS streams work in the TuneIn app (not sure if Media Browser uses HLS streams though).

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I’ve managed to get the BBC radio stations back by hard-coding the url for the stations. The urls can be seen here:

BBC HLS Streams

Just change the media_content_id: to the url and it should work:


media_content_id: >-
    https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_6music%22&bitrate=320000%22
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I’ve just tried that… and I get an error - Sonos does not support media content type: audio/mpeg - despite the other play scripts I have for other stations (through Radio Browser) working. Did you need to change anything else? My script has multiple references to media content id - this is one that still works:

  action: media_player.play_media
  metadata:
    title: Generation Soul Disco Funk
    thumbnail: http://www.generationdiscofunk.com/img/img_logos/logo_g_bl_165x177.png
    media_class: music
    children_media_class: null
    navigateIds:
      - {}
      - media_content_type: app
        media_content_id: media-source://radio_browser
      - media_content_type: music
        media_content_id: media-source://radio_browser/country/fr
  data:
    media_content_id: media-source://radio_browser/9607cade-0601-11e8-ae97-52543be04c81
    media_content_type: audio/mpeg
  target:
    entity_id: media_player.big

Any pointers in the right direction?

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Looks like an issue with Sonos - I’m using chromecast.

Try the other stream format: BBC national and local radio DASH streams - Garfnet