HOWTO Record BBC Radio 1 Real Audio Streams

The BBC provide a listen again feature for all of their Radio 1 programs, accessible in your web browser (via the plugin) at the Radio 1 homepage.

First you will need to install Real Audio.

1. Install Real Audio program (includes browser plugin)

Windows or Linux (Install Guide)

Once installed, you can listen to any of the Radio 1 shows using the “listen again player”.

2. Locate stream URL

To download and save the Real Audio files you first need to locate the URL. Using Firefox, if you select “This Frame” -> “View Frame Source” from the pop-up you can find the URL of the .rpm file for the currently playing show. This is nicely shown at the top of the source in a JavaScript function:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var AudioStream = "/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio1/r1moyles_thu";
var PlayerType = "Music".toLowerCase();
var show_end="2005/08/11";
var Title="The Chris Moyles Show";
var version= "false";
//-->
</script>

The variable AudioStream contains the location of the .rpm file (you need to append ”.rpm”). Note: This file is NOT the file to download, it is simply a meta data file pointing to the actual stream location.

/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio1/r1moyles_thu.rpm

If you now open a new browser window / tab and point to the location specified, eg. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio1/r1moyles_thu.rpm and then vie source you will see the actual audio stream location.

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/r1moyles_thu.ra

3. Downloading the Audio Stream

To download the file you will need to use a piece of software called StreamBox VCR. Paste the “rstp” URL into StreamBox VCR and the download should start. Once complete you will have a ”.ra” or ”.rm” file which can be played using the Real Audio player and saved for prosperity.

References

http://fiddlesticks.com/radioindex.html

http://dave.org.uk/streams/

http://www.nenie.org/misc/bbcradio/

Usefull Stream URLs

The Chris Moyles Show

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/r1moyles_mon.ra

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/r1moyles_tue.ra

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/r1moyles_wed.ra

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/r1moyles_thu.ra

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/r1moyles_fri.ra

Essential Mix

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/essmix.ra

Judge Jules

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/jules.ra

Annie Mac

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/r1anniemac.ra

Live

rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra