I can hear BBC World Service only via the App „BBC Sounds“ after sign in with my account. VPN is not necessary, they are not geoblocked. I live in Germany.
(from NZ as well). When I try on my ND555 I get a repeated recorded message saying “due to contactual reasons the recorded programme is not available in your area”
There’s nothing consistent with all the errors being produced - suggests it’s a technical issue with the BBC feeds (maybe connected to which cdn is being used to deliver the streams.).
Why use vpn on bbc sounds on iOS it plays on like itdid yesterday. My guess is that the change BBC made to the UK channels now also has affected the bbc world services stream. Unfortunately none of us can get in contact with vtuner,but Naim used to be able to force an update from vtuner.
I’ve raised the question with the BBC, as BBC World Service is one of the last ones to be using Icecast streams. Everything else has switched to the newer HLS streams.
Will see what the reply is from them and get things adjusted accordingly.