Author Topic: CBC Radio One Live Streams Not Working  (Read 841 times)

phred

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Using 3.5.8167 P

CBC Radio One changed their live stream URLs. MB used to play the previous URLs with no problem. After three days of not being able to listen at all, I finally tracked down the new URLs but MB throws an error: "Radio station 'CBC Radio Montreal' is not responding and may no longer be a valid link. The link is definitely valid and the server is responding once I finally got it working on Tapin Radio, Airsonic, and Logitech Media Server (LMS.) For LMS I had to add ffmpeg.exe to its executables path. I checked MB's codecs and saw a very old ffmpeg.exe, so I replaced it with the new one that's working with LMS. But it still throws the error.

Here are the links with which MB throws the error (but which work in the other apps I mentioned):
Montreal:  https://cbcradiolive.akamaized.net/hls/live/2041030/ES\_R1EMT/master.m3u8
Winnipeg:  https://cbcradiolive.akamaized.net/hls/live/2040991/ES\_R1CWP/master.m3u8
Calgary:  https://cbcradiolive.akamaized.net/hls/live/2041039/ES\_R1MCG/master.m3u8
Vancouver:  https://cbcradiolive.akamaized.net/hls/live/2041050/ES\_R1PVC/master.m3u8

Maybe this is a bug, but I decided to throw this out as a question first.

Thanks.
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Phred:  I had succes pulling specified bitrate links out of the master.m3u8 file, MINUS the "EXT-X.." preface.  For example, adding the below as-is results in a playing 192k AAC radio station:

https://cbcradiolive.akamaized.net/hls/live/2041030/ES_R1EMT/adaptive_192/chunklist_ao.m3u8

These "chunk" style live streams can be sensitive to the versions of bass.dll, bass_aac.dll and basshls.dll you are running so I advise updating those to 2.4.16.7, 2.4.5.22, and 2.4.3.1 respectively.

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Thanks very much sveakul. The link you extracted (Montreal) works in MB without my updating any of the bass dlls. (For the record, I will update once I'm done with this "project."

Looking at what you got for Montreal, I tried adapting the other three and none of them work. For Winnipeg, for example, I replaced "master.m3u8" with "adaptive_192/chunklist_ao.m3u8" thinking all it would need was a simple replacement.

So can you please tell me how to get what you got?  What do I need to open (I assume in a text editor) and what do I need to look for?

Thanks.

EDIT: In attempting to update the bass files, the un4seen site shows bass_aac at v2.4.5.8, not v2.4.5.22 as you stated. Where is .22?
Last Edit: June 03, 2022, 11:32:36 PM by phred
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Here's the newer bass_aac.dll:  https://www.un4seen.com/stuff/bass_aac.zip

What I did is for each city is download the "master.m3u8" as a text file with Firefox, saving it with a name like "winnpeg.m3u8" to tell them apart..  Then I opened each one with Notepad, and copied the entire https link for the 192k stream given BELOW the #EXT-X-.. line, and pasted that line into the MusicBee "Add Station" URL box.

Note that there are actually TWO links for each bitrate, one of which adds a "-b" to part of the address, for example using Winnipeg there is both https://cbcradiolive.akamaized.net/hls/live/2040991/ES_R1CWP/adaptive_192/chunklist_ao.m3u8 and https://cbcradiolive.akamaized.net/hls/live/2040991-b/ES_R1CWP/adaptive_192/chunklist_ao.m3u8.  Both of the links seem to carry the same programming, at least when I tried.

Below you can see an example where I downloaded the master.m3u8 for Vancouver, and have it open in Notepad showing the link to copy/paste into MusicBee for the 192k stream:


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its MB's fault - but i v3.5 is in the middle of changes so i cant provide a fix for a while

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its MB's fault - but i v3.5 is in the middle of changes so i cant provide a fix for a while
Thanks for chiming in, Steven. With sveakul's method I'm hoping I can get the other three streams working in the next day or so.
But as always, I welcome the fix whenever it shows up.
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Tip of the ol' phred hat to sveakul. I've got all four working now. It really was very simple to do once you explained it.
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