BBC Radio 4 and the World Service are the only two stations that international listeners will officially be able to receive. The regular BBC Sounds App is limited to domestic listeners.
A selection of BBC podcasts will be available
via BBC.COM and the BBC App.
I guess this is called progress
What’s crazy is, I pay for TV from Virgin Media Ireland, which includes the BBC stations 1,2,3 & 4. So Virgin Media Ireland must be paying the BBC for the content, to be able to distribute and provide to its subscribers in Ireland.
But can I get iPlayer content, no. And now seemingly no more Radio stations.
I am paying for the content.
Just get a VPN - that’s what I use when I go on holiday in Europe.
How can a VPN be implemented for devices like the Naim streamers?
I use a VPN on my Android tablet and can then bluetooth to the streamer or you could connect direct using a suitable cable - I guess it would also work with a phone.
It works with Quobuz but I mostly use it for iPlayer to get English TV other than BBCNews 24! If you are at home you could install it on your router and protect your entire network.
Very low cost and I don’t notice any performance hit. I use Nord VPN but others are available.
… Or just dump the Beeb. It’s a shadow of its former self in any event. Another sad story of institutional decline.
Just use your broadband router to manage your entire home subnet as a VPN.
Yes despite what others say there will be a performance hit… just through physics and Ethernet specifications… but it’s unlikely to be noticeable for normal domestic internet use.
You can manually set an alternate gateway IP address for your streamer… which happens to be a VPN server on your LAN , but you might need a little bit of know how.
Ironically, if using TuneIn at present, the BBC stations are available outside the UK, but not for listeners within. I believe a few manufacturers negotiated exceptions … Linn, for example, but it’ll be interesting to see what happens under the new regime.
Roger
It is a rights issue. Git hub will have a list of radio streams, this is a workaround for BBC Sounds, such as Radio 3 Unwind. If your local radio station has licensed music from BBC this may continue?
It’s an awful 4g router - very basic configuration options. No option for cable since the copper wire shutdown. Grrr.
Get a better router then you have the power. It baffles me people spend 15-30k on a streamer then settle for total rubbish feeding it
How easy is it to simply swap 4g routers - just swap out the sim card?
There may be some configuration required, usually just a username and password on the router, but not sure if thats needed specifically for 4G as that info would be on the sim.
Search up draytek 4G routers.
Short-sighted and stupid.
(The BBC’s decision, for clarification)
Would doing this mess up other streaming services as the Naim device(s) would appear to be on a different IP to the Phone/Table/Computer that the listener is triggering the stream from?
It’d be a shame if this stops Naim users listening to BBC radio outside of the UK after the Company went to all the effort to write the new system.
No it shouldn’t affect anything… it will just appear to services you are connecting to that you have a different IP address.
SmartDNS can resolve many of these issues without VPN. It works by putting your home connection address under the global domain for another region to avoid geoblocking .
There is no real performance hit as no VPN is involved. It’s very effective for many services. Though things like HDtracks use geoblocking based on a combination of things like the timezone of your browser and language edition of your OS in addition to address. It’s only about $6/month so you can give it a whirl and if it doesn’t work, cancel it.