An updated radio feeds script

The BBC are changing their radio feeds, and BBC national radio streams in both WMA and AAC+ have now been retired. This means that they are now all being sent in a mp3 format. As my previous script’s BBC feeds failed to work, this is now the updated working ...

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mpd super-feed!

Following on from yesterday’s post about getting BBC feeds working and playing with mpc, this one is used in mpd itself -

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At last, a working BBC radio feeds

Date Tags mpd

I’ve long been a fan of mpd (Music Player Daemon) but recently I’ve been frustrated in that it can’t play the BBC radio feeds for some reason. So I’ve been looking for various working scripts, and I’ve found one, actually two as its a two-parter ...

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beeb’-v4.0

Another release of beeb which takes it to even greater heights! :) And just as an experiment I’m “self-hosting” the ‘tar.gz’ file so that it can be downloaded from here.

Documentation

This is the documentation for beeb [version 4.0] the all-singing, all-dancing, upgrade to get-iplayer!

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radiostreams-v2.0” - A New MPD playlist

If you use this script you will get some amazing radio stations, from ones that just play Elvis Presley, or The Beatles, or solid Goon Shows! I’m currently listening to Elvis, and its stuff that I’ve never heard before, and I thought my Elvis collection was pretty comprehensive ...

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Troubleshooting MPD

For several days now my MPD has been very choppy, dropping connections and having great difficulty in starting it again. So I finally decided to look at ‘mpd.log’ which is in my ‘/home/boudiccas/.mpd/mpd.log’. And in it I found this -

Nov 09 17:56 : output: Failed ...
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Obnam and MPD restore

Obnam restore

Having done a restore and re-install recently of my Debian wheezy box, I made notes on what exactly I did. This was a ‘planned’ restore in that I decided at about 1430 to start the restore now rather than wait for doing it tomorrow. Whilst Obnam was completing ...

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MPD

Date Tags mpd

I spend a lot of time listening to the radio or to my music, and I used to use Radio Tray for streaming radio off the internet but it kept dropping the connection and wasn’t very satisfactory. And then I heard about MPD and started reading about it and ...

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MPD playlist

There are a lot of radio stations on the internet and I have made my list from various sources, starting with those from the programme Radio Tray. I’ve also included those from SomaFM, and the BBC for those in the UK.

Here is my list of sources -

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