Internet radio player URLs
- Updated 2025-02-04 03:08 UTC
Welcome to GarfNet Internet Radio
Editor’s note. 2025-02-02. Following the BBC’s latest radio stream fiasco, this page has been rewritten and updated. The streams and links listed below should work properly now, with separate linked pages for BBC DASH and BBC HLS streams.
Regular readers already know that the BBC has a nasty habit of breaking its internet radio streams. In fairness, other radio stations do this too sometimes. But other stations are not as secretive about their internet radio stream URL’s as the BBC appears to be. This page is an attempt to mitigate this and provide up-to-date URLs for various radio streams. It was originally created as part of the old defunct “GarfNet Internet Radio Player” that we built back in the day when we ran Joomla. Today, we prefer to test and list the working URLs as links, and then let our readers decide how they wish to play them.
Latest BBC national & local radio streams
In its infinite wisdom, seems the BBC has taken to changing its radio streams URL’s as often as some people change their underpants. It’s become quite a struggle just to keep up. To make the maintenance a little more straightforward, we have split the BBC HLS streams off to a new page. We have also created a new list of alternative BBC DASH streams. Fortunately, the BBC seldom breaks all its streams at the same time, hopefully some of these streams should still stay up when the Beeb breaks the others, At least, that’s the general idea…
General internet radio streams
- Angel Radio
http://s2.xrad.io:8522/listen.pls?sid=1 - Bartók Rádió
http://mr-stream.mediaconnect.hu/4742/mr3hq.mp3 - BBC World Service
https://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_world_service - BBC World Service
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/http-icy-mp3-a/vpid/bbc_world_service/format/pls.pls - BBC World Service
https://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_world_service.m3u8 - Capital UK
http://vis.media-ice.musicradio.com/CapitalUK - Capital FM London
http://media-ice.musicradio.com/CapitalMP3 - Classic FM UK
http://media-the.musicradio.com/ClassicFM - Classic FM
http://ice-sov.musicradio.com/ClassicFMMP3 - Classic FM UK
http://ice-the.musicradio.com/ClassicFMMP3 - Classic FM at the Movies
http://media-sov.musicradio.com/ClassicFM-M-Movies - Classic FM Relax
http://media-the.musicradio.com/ClassicFM-M-Relax - Celtic Music Radio
http://stream.celticmusicradio.net:8000/celticmusic.mp3 - Chill
http://media-ice.musicradio.com/ChillMP3.m3u - CRI轻松调频
http://sk.cri.cn/915.m3u8 - CRI News Plus AM1008
http://sk.cri.cn/am1008.m3u8 - Danubius Rádió
http://stream.danubiusradio.hu/danubius_128k - Danubius Rádió
https://stream.danubiusradio.hu/danubius_320k - Deep House Lounge
http://198.15.94.34:8006/stream - Express FM 93.7 Portsmouth
http://london-ics01.broadcast.meteoric.net/expressfm.mp3?.mp3 - England – Heart London Radio
http://ice-the.musicradio.com/HeartLondonMP3 - Heart Dorset 102.3
http://ice-sov.musicradio.com/HeartDorsetMP3 - Heart South Coast 96.7 & 97.5
http://media-sov.musicradio.com/HeartHampshire - Heart Sussex 102.4 &103.5
http://media-ice.musicradio.com/HeartSussexMP3?.mp3 - I Love Pécs Rádió
http://radio.ilovepecs.hu:8200/ilp.mp3 - JAZZ & CHILL
http://salalondon.ddns.net:8002/;.m3u - Jazz London Radio
http://radio.canstream.co.uk:8075/live.mp3 - Joint Radio Reggae
http://star.jointil.net/proxy/jrn_reggae?mp=/stream - KLASSIK 1
http://icepool.silvacast.com/KLASSIK1.mp3 - Klassikradio
http://stream.klassikradio.de/live/mp3-192/stream.klassikradio.de/ - Klassik Radio Barock
http://stream.klassikradio.de/barock/mp3-192 - Klassik Radio Friends@Home
http://stream.klassikradio.de/friendshome/mp3-128/ - Klassikradio Chor
http://stream.klassikradio.de/chor/mp3-192/www.klassikradio.de/ - Klassik Radio Healing
http://stream.klassikradio.de/healing/mp3-128/ - Klassik Radio Klassik Dreams
http://stream.klassikradio.de/dreams/mp3-128/ - Hirschmilch Radio Prog House
https://hirschmilch.de:7001/prog-house.mp3 - Klassik Radio Lounge
http://stream.klassikradio.de/lounge/mp3-128/www.klassikradio.de/ - Klassikradio Movie Channel
http://stream.klassikradio.de/movie/mp3-192/www.klassikradio.de/ - Klassik Radio Nature
http://stream.klassikradio.de/nature/mp3-128/www.klassikradio.de/ - Klassikradio New Classics
http://stream.klassikradio.de/newclassics/mp3-192/www.klassikradio.de/ - Klassik Radio Opera
http://stream.klassikradio.de/opera/mp3-128/www.klassikradio.de/ - Klassikradio Pure Bach
http://stream.klassikradio.de/purebach/mp3-192/www.klassikradio.de/ - Klassik Radio Smooth
http://stream.klassikradio.de/smooth/mp3-128/radiosure/play.m3u - Laser Hot Hits
http://213.175.217.198:8000/laserhq - LBC Radio
http://media-sov.musicradio.com/LBC973MP3Low - LBC London (London stream) AAC
http://media-sov.musicradio.com/LBCLondon - Linn Classical
http://radio.linn.co.uk:8004/autodj - Linn Jazz
http://radio.linn.co.uk:8000/autodj - Linn Radio
http://radio.linn.co.uk:8003/autodj - Naim Classical [FLAC]
https://mscp3.live-streams.nl:8252/class-flac.flac - Naim Classical [320k AAC]
https://mscp3.live-streams.nl:8252/class-high.aac - Naim Jazz [FLAC]
https://mscp3.live-streams.nl:8342/jazz-flac.flac - Naim Jazz [320k AAC]
https://mscp3.live-streams.nl:8342/jazz-high.aac - Naim Radio [FLAC]
https://mscp3.live-streams.nl:8362/flac.flac - Naim Radio [320k AAC]
https://mscp3.live-streams.nl:8362/high.aac - ORF Tirol http 1
http://orf-live.ors-shoutcast.at/tir-q1a - ORF Tirol http 2
http://orf-live.ors-shoutcast.at/tir-q2a - Point Blank FM 320KB
http://pointblankradio.co.uk:9002/stream - Radio Alfa 3 latin hits
http://stream.zeno.fm/pexep60uhnruv - Radio Caroline AAC 96 kbps
http://78.129.202.200:8030/; - Radio Caroline
http://sc6.radiocaroline.net:8040/stream.mp3 - Radio Caroline
http://78.129.202.200:8040/ - Radio Caroline Flashback
http://sc2.radiocaroline.net:10558/listen.pls - Radio Northsea International
http://radionorthsea.zapto.org:8008/listen.pls - Radio Paradise (320k)
http://stream-uk1.radioparadise.com/aac-320 - Radio Osttirol
http://streamplus20.leonex.de:28768/; - Radio Seagull
http://stream.radioseagull.net:8000/seagull - Radio Tirol
http://str2.creacast.com/radiotirol_a - RAI Südtirol
http://radiobzlive.rai.it/RAIBZ_Livestream - Reggae Radio Rastamusic.com
http://ais.rastamusic.com/rastamusic.mp3.m3u - RFI Anglais nglish
http://live02.rfi.fr/rfienanglais-64.mp3 - Rock Antenne Heavy Metal
http://mp3channels.webradio.rockantenne.de/heavy-metal - RTL
http://streaming.radio.rtl.fr/rtl-1-44-128 - SomaFM Beat Blender AAC 128k
https://somafm.com/beatblender130.pls - SomaFM Beat Blender MP3
https://somafm.com/beatblender.pls - Somafm Dub Step Beyond AAC 128k
https://somafm.com/dubstep130.pls - SomaFM Dub Step Beyond MP3 256k
http://somafm.com/dubstep256.pls - SomaFM Dub Step Beyond MP3
http://somafm.com/dubstep.pls - SomaFM Deep Space One AAC 128k
http://somafm.com/deepspaceone130.pls - SomaFM Deep Space One MP3
https://somafm.com/deepspaceone.pls - SomaFM Drone Zone AAC 128k
http://somafm.com/dronezone130.pls - SomaFM Drone Zone MP3
http://somafm.com/dronezone.pls - SomaFM Fluid AAC 128k
http://somafm.com/fluid130.pls - SomaFM Fluid MP3
https://somafm.com/fluid.pls - SomaFM Groove Salad 128k AAC
http://somafm.com/groovesalad130.pls - SomaFM Groove Salad MP3
http://somafm.com/groovesalad.pls - SomaFM Groove Salad Classic AAC 128k
https://somafm.com/gsclassic130.pls - SomaFM Groove Salad Classic MP3
https://somafm.com/gsclassic.pls - SomaFM Indie Pop Rocks! AAC 128k
http://somafm.com/indiepop130.pls - SomaFM Indie Pop Rocks! MP3
http://somafm.com/indiepop.pls - SomaFM Secret Agent AAC 128k
https://somafm.com/secretagent130.pls - SomaFM Secret Agent MP3
https://somafm.com/secretagent.pls - SomaFM Sonic Universe 128k AAC+
https://somafm.com/sonicuniverse130.pls - SomaFM Sonic Universe MP3
http://somafm.com/sonicuniverse.pls - SomaFM Thistle AAC 128k
https://somafm.com/thistle130.pls - SomaFM Thistle MP3
https://somafm.com/thistle.pls - SomaFM Vaporwaves AAC 128k
https://somafm.com/vaporwaves130.pls - SomaFM Vaporwaves MP3
https://somafm.com/vaporwaves.pls - Südtirol 1
http://players.creacast.com/creacast/sudtirol1a/playlist.pls - talkRADIO
http://radio.talkradio.co.uk/stream - The English Connection Media
http://s30.myradiostream.com:19108/listen.mp3 - Unity 101 Community Radio
http://live.canstream.co.uk:8000/unity24.mp3 - Virgin Radio Chilled
https://radio.virginradio.co.uk/stream-chilled - VOA1 – The Hits
http://voa-22.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/48/322034/v1/ibb.akacast.akamaistream.net/voa-22 - VOA Voice of America Global English
http://voa-28.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/54/322040/v1/ibb.akacast.akamaistream.net/voa-28 - VOA Chinese
http://voa-11.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/317/322023/v1/ibb.akacast.akamaistream.net/voa-11 - VOA-Voice of America African Service (English)
http://voa-17.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/315/322029/v1/ibb.akacast.akamaistream.net/voa-17 - Aljazeera English
http://live-hls-web-aje.getaj.net/AJE/06.m3u8 - BBC News
https://vs-hls-push-ww-live.akamaized.net/x=4/i=urn:bbc:pips:service:bbc_news_channel_hd/t=3840/v=pv14/b=5070016/main.m3u8 - RAI Südtirol
http://wzstreaming.rai.it/TVlive/liveStream/playlist.m3u8
About general radio streams
This list contains around 100 or so non-BBC internet radio player URLs, plus a few BBC World Service streams. Many of the URL’s listed will play directly from most modern browsers. We have tested them in Firefox and Chromium for GNU/Linux. Your mileage my vary. Click on a URL and see what happens. Others are in the form of a playlist (*.m3u, *.m3u8 or *.pls) and will probably require your default media player. In this case, your browser may give you a choice to either download the file or play with default media player. In most cases, you would probably select play with default media player. Exact wording of messages will vary from one browser to another.
Alternatively, you may copy the URLs and use them in an internet radio application of your choice. You can find instructions for the popular VLC player further down this page. And if you have time, let us know how it worked for you in the comments box at the bottom of the page. Don’t forget to tell us what browser and operating system you are using.
General radio streams as a VLC/SMPlayer compatible “*.m3u playlist
General radio streams as a simple plain text list
About our M3U playlists
- These provide a collection of radio streams and present them as a playlist in your media player (VLC or SMPlayer). Every object on the playlist is a radio station.
- These should work on any modern device with an internet connection and any reasonably good media player. Though it works best with VLC or SMPlayer on GNU/Linux. 🙂
- Most of these stations are English language. However there are a few foreign language stations too, mostly by request of family, friends and regular readers.
- A *.m3u file is actually a simple plain-text file, containing a list of files or URLs. None of these stations is hosted here. This text file is merely a list of links. In this instance you can also download the file (right-click > “Save as”). Then you may copy it to any (or all) of your devices. Providing your devices have an internet connection and a reasonably proficient media player, our *.m3u file will give you access to all these stations. More about M3U format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U
- Also bear in mind that radio streams change quite regularly and servers sometimes go off-line. This means that some stations may not work all the time.
- Our *.m3u playlists are open source. So hack them about and do what you will with them! If you manage to do something really interesting with them, then please let me know about it. 🙂
Playing Internet radio streams
On most modern browsers, you can play the stream URLs directly from your browser window. This is particularly true for the standard MP3. Simply click on the link and hopefully it will play. More complex proprietary streams such as those listed in the BBC streams table will probably need a proper media player, such as VLC or similar. In which case, you may need to copy the stream URL and paste it into the player of your choice. Here’s how to do it with VLC…
- In VLC, select from the top menu: Media > Network Stream.
- In the VLC “Open Media” dialogue, select: “Network” tab.
- Paste or type your chosen station URL into the “Please enter a network URL” box. E.g.
- http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_6music
- Click the “Play” button.
VLC is available for MS Windows, Mac OSX, GNU/Linux, Android and iOS. It is free, open source, with no hidden nasties or gotchas. It is also one of the best and most versatile media players ever created. Debian-based GNU/Linux users probably already have VLC in your distro’s repositories. In which case it is a simple matter of typing the following into a terminal window and pressing the “return” key…
sudo apt install vlc
If you use some other operating system then you may download it for free from…
Recording internet radio streams
There are several ways to do this.
Recording directly from browser (old shoutcast type streams only)
For old-school shoutcast streams, on most modern browsers, you can simply click “File” > “Save Page As” or similar on the actual player page, as it is playing, and it will write the stream to disk. Works well except that to stop recording, you need to go into your browser’s download manager and forcefully cancel the download. This often erases what you have just saved. So you must make a copy of the streamed file before you cancel the download. Which is a bit crude and hacky!
Recording using VLC
VLC will also record the stream for you too, in a somewhat more elegant manner.
- Do the same as you did above to play a radio stream in VLC, up to stage 3.
- Carefully click the down arrow that’s attached to the “Play” button.
- Select “Record”.
- Use the standard “Browse…” button to select where you wish to save the file.
Recording using yt-dlp
Many radio streams are also recordable using the excellent yt-dlp. It is a command line tool written in python initially designed to rip Youtube video. But these days it rips all sorts of streams, example…
yt-dlp http://media-ice.musicradio.com:80/ClassicFMMP3
There are various ways to install it depending on your system. I used the python-based pipx method. But there are many other ways too:-
Other streaming radio station lists
Ours is certainly not the only internet radio stream list on the worldwide web. There are several really good ones out there that readers may find helpful. These are sites that also list the actual stream URLs, rather than attempting to obfuscate them. We visit these sites fairly regularly as they provide quite a lot of the URL’s that we display here.
Useful lists that “cut to the chase” and list the actual stream URL’s:-
- https://hiresaudio.online/category/radio/
- CD quality internet radio URLs…
https://www.hiresaudio.online/cd-quality-internet-radio/ - High resolution internet radio URLs…
https://www.hiresaudio.online/hires-internet-radio/
- CD quality internet radio URLs…
- https://listenlive.nl
- https://radio-browser.info
I was dismayed to find the new BBC streaming URLs did not work in the Apple Music app on my Macs.
However, someone posted a solution here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254973672
The trick is to replace “http” with “itals” like so:
itals://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8
Note that /uk/ must be changed to /nonuk/ and /sbr_high/ to /sbr_low/ outside the UK.
As in the post, I also found that on my M2 MacBook Air to send sound to an Airplay speaker I had to leave the Music app output on MacBook Air, and then in the Control Centre sound output choose the speaker.
Hi Micheal, thank you for your comment.
I’m a Linux guy, so Mac is a bit outside my bailiwick, I’m afraid. However we have quite a lot of Mac users these days, and I’m sure they will really appreciate this info.
With regard to overseas availability, TBH I’ve not actually set-foot outside the UK since COVID. So I’ve not actually had a chance to test the URL’s overseas since 2019. Worse, sadly it seems the BBC is creeping slowly towards privatisation, where I suspect the ultimate goal is to become a primarily subscription service rather than a public service broadcaster.
Anyway, thanks again for the info, and please keep in touch. 🙂
Thanks!
I’ve been scouring the internet for a few months now – one the BBC started announcing it was abandoning the old steam – trying to find a way to get the BBC steam to work on my Mac. It’s working again – and i really appreciate it.
Please could I have the url of classic fm relax
“Classic FM Relax” high quality AAC stream is: http://media-the.musicradio.com/ClassicFM-M-Relax – though I’m pretty sure it’s already included in the downloadable radio list at the top of the page. Though in fairness that list does need updating. 🙂
As of a few hours ago, the BBC HLS streams have all stopped working – or indeed, existing; they now uniformly return ‘410 Gone’ when you try to play them… which seems pretty final.
Thanks for the heads-up. I don’t know at this stage whether this is a technical fault or a long-term policy decision. The AAC streams are still listed at https://www.radio-browser.info/ Moreover the older MP3 streams appear to still be on air.
Seems the MP3 streams have gone too. And this is all entirely intentional on the part of the BBC. This details what I know so far 2023-10-27…
https://garfnet.org.uk/cms/2023/10/26/bbc-deliberately-breaks-its-internet-radio-service/
The only ones that work for me are the BBC Sounds ones accessible from the mpd daemon. 🙁
Sorry to hear that. Have you tried the URLs listed at: https://garfnet.org.uk/cms/2023/10/29/latest-bbc-hls-radio-streams/ ?
And have you tried them in VLC?
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Thank you for your contribution. Is there an English Language version of this? I used to have a rather lovely Italian researcher many years ago who could translate and keep all the nuances in tact. But sadly she’s no longer on the team. I can get the gist from Google Translate, but it is rather a blunt instrument.
Thank you for the update Garf
You’re welcome Danny. 🙂
Thanks for this list. The 320 streams now work in Europe.
You’re welcome, thanks for letting me know. 🙂