Is there anyway to listen to BBC radio on the iPhone?

I want to listen to BBC radio 5 Live on my iPhone as it's the best UK sports & news channel out there. Is there anyway of doing this?

Thanks in advance

Steve

Try navigating to the iplayer site on WiFi

Apparently you should be able to stream some content, not sure about radio

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

THere used to be a link to BETA BBC iPlayer for iPhone, but you will have to see if the beta is still running

Nah. I can stream TV from iplayer but no radio

Radio is available on the 'full blown' iPlayer now but unfortunately because the BBC use realplayer as their broadcast standard for radio it's not available on iPhone ..... sadly

mrplow said:

Radio is available on the 'full blown' iPlayer now but unfortunately because the BBC use realplayer as their broadcast standard for radio it's not available on iPhone ..... sadly

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mmm shame.

Thanks anyway

Not Radio but....

Go to www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/ip#_home on your iphone and you can stream bbc podcasts directly to your iphone. Works brilliantly.

zongamin said:

Not Radio but....

Go to www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/ip#_home on your iphone and you can stream bbc podcasts directly to your iphone. Works brilliantly.

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Agreed,
Not exactly what I wanted i.e. live radio but a great suggestions all the same... Thanks!

Yes, impressive and useful.

Could anyone advise me on how to 'resume' after navigating away from the page to do something else - or is that kind of multitasking asking too much?

bbc 5 live

ooTunes will let you listen to bbc 5 live (and lots of other stations). It's $20, kinda a pain to setup, but if you're outside the UK it's the only option for live bbc.

If it's on shoutcast, you can use FlyCast. You can run it in the background so you can use other apps & it has a web browser built into it. It's free in the app store.

Unfortunately, the BBC is not on shoutcast. FlyCast sounds interesting... but I'm pretty sure running in the background is against apple's SDK rules, so if it DOES do that, it will be interesting to see if it is pulled from the store.

swedeygirl said:

If it's on shoutcast, you can use FlyCast. You can run it in the background so you can use other apps & it has a web browser built into it. It's free in the app store.

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Hi
I recently managed to listen to radio five on my iphone.
Install fstream the free app.
then go to favourites > edit > add new webradio
url is
BBC Radio 5 live
format Ram
And i set bitrate to 128
Cheers

Have a look

..at WunderRadio in the Apps store. Costs a couple of £££ but works really well and has most programmes.

Try the FStream App, it's free and I managed to get Radio 2 to work. Needs Wifi though.

Check out BBC Radio iPhone Streams

Cheers

GP

Ginger Pilot said:

Try the FStream App, it's free and I managed to get Radio 2 to work. Needs Wifi though.

Check out BBC Radio iPhone Streams

Cheers

GP

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No it doesnt. FStream will work over 3G, I listen to the football commentary on Radio 5 Live whilst at games that way.

rgds

GW

GreenWings said:

FStream will work over 3G

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Even better, I hadn't been able to get it work over 3G, but I'll try again.

GP

One work-around (not perfect, but it works) is to install Airfoil on a desktop computer (Mac or PC) and Airfoil Speakers in the iPhone/iPod Touch. This allows the stream to be sent in the WiFi area covered by the desktop.

(I think there is a VLC version, but I have not looked into it).

John F

live bbc radio

hello all, the best and easiest site to listen to live bbc radio is:

http://www.bbcradio.mobi

You can easily stream bbc radio channels + sports in or outside the UK. You will find all channels in both real media, and windows media player. It also works very well with any internet connected mobile device. Iphone compatible.

Enjoy

Hi angelina, when I try to use BBC Radio - Live BBC Radio Stations to listen to bbc radio on my iPhone 3GS via wifi, I get the error message "Download failed. Safari cannot download this file". Anyone know why? I'm in the UK by the way, so you woulda thought I could listen to the BBC ok!