I also gave my Web Radio album a distinguished looking icon. May I recommend that you give it the Album name Web Radio. Return to the left tree and left click on Playlists, in the drop down menu you will see your New Playlist item that you created.ħ. Right Click on the item and in the drop down menu follow the path: Send to > Playlist > New PlaylistĦ. Your item will be in bold type and named "No Title".ĥ. A new window will open and you will see the Playing Now square-shaped-green-colored icon (with a white arrow inside) pointing to your now playing URL. While that URL stream is playing immediately left click on Playing Now in the left tree.Ĥ. I have the Show web media options when opening to allow recording and more check box unchecked.ģ. File > Open URL > Enter URL of streaming file: Here is a setup routine that I created two years ago, employ it for your BBC 3 stream as well as for any other stream.ġ. I realise there are other BBC radio links which work in the normal manner, but the AAC feeds are worth the trouble - the Radio 3 feed is 320kbps, the other stations are 128kbps. So the whole process of using the BBC links becomes rather clumsy. Selecting "keep using this answer" only applies to the current session, it doesn't get remembered when you close Media Center. The problem with that, as is also pointed out in that thread, is that you cannot bypass the dialog box that pops up when you use Connected Media links. The best solution currently, as pointed out in the first link above, is to use the Connected Media option (Go to Audio -> Connected Media, right-click and choose Add Website). So just adding the link in a normal playlist (via "File Menu -> Open URL" is useless. BBC Radio 3 HD is: ), the servers translate this into a temporary session link, which is what gets saved as the link in MC18. The essential problem is that when you put in the permanent BBC URL (e.g. This query has been raised at least a couple of times before, here and here but the problem still exists in MC18 - has anyone come up with an easy way to play the BBC's high-quality (AAC) radio streams?
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