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Started by "Worst
Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:48
Smart Speaker
Author: "Worst
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:48
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:48
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In the U.S. members of the Republican Party have fomented hate against Federal subsidies for Public Radio and Public Television. They object to Liberal political agendas of programming directors there, and they argue that subsidizing those agendas is a misuse of public funds, which come from tax revenues, because tax payers are not served equally. It's difficult to refute the notion that such agendas do exist. It's probably the reason I listen to Public Radio and Public TV. It's not the lack of commercials. Public Media have long e'er since sold public air time to commercial sponsors to stay in business and pay lavish salaries to programming directors. Now comes the 119th Congress and — with Republican control in both houses (the first since the first half of Trump's first term in office) — passes a bill to cut $1 billion from funds previously allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This is likely the death knell of many radio and television in the midlands, which serve a rural demographic. + https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/nx-s1-5469912/npr-congress-rescission-funding-trump Well, at least we won't have Barney, the Teletubbies, and Sesame Street to kick around anymore. IMNSHO it's unlikely that state and local governments can step up in time to replace the Federal rescission set to go into effect in October. IT IS LIKELY that many PBS radio stations will convert to commercial FM broadcasts, which have always been a wasteland of country music and religious programming. I leave my radio tuned overnight to BBC World Service (for its Liberal programming), which is delivered by a local PBS FM radio station. If that station goes dark or changes to Hillbilly Rock, I'll loose sleep, so it's serious. Naturally, it occurs to me that I can receive BBS World Service through a smart speaker. I am therefore in the market, and I want to be sure I place an order before everyone else in this country comes to the same conclusion. Can anyone suggest a smart speaker that isn't joined at the hip with Amazon, Google, or Apple? (I already have OpenHAB home automation installed.) I am asking on Szociál Media because nothing that comes up on Google appears to be sold in the U.S. -- Moreover I'm convinced that Reddit must be destroyed. Worst Case
Re: Smart Speaker
Author: Mark Olson
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:08
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:08
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"Worst wrote: > > Naturally, it occurs to me that I can receive BBS World Service > through a smart speaker. I am therefore in the market, and I want to > be sure I place an order before everyone else in this country comes to > the same conclusion. Can anyone suggest a smart speaker that isn't > joined at the hip with Amazon, Google, or Apple? (I already have > OpenHAB home automation installed.) I am asking on Szociál Media > because nothing that comes up on Google appears to be sold in the U.S. I listen to all sorts of radio streams through a software program called 'rAudio' that runs under Arch Linux on a Raspberry Pi dedicated to being a 'radio'. I usually pair the Bluetooth of the Pi with my non-smart Bluetooth portable speaker. The Pi sits in one spot and I can drag the speaker over most of the house. You can also hook up a DAC to the Pi and then an amp or a powered speaker. https://github.com/rern/rAudio/ It's quite easy to install on an SD card, follow the instructions on the githib page. The trick is to find the proper URL to access the streams you want, vs. listening to them through a web app. But there are directories out there listing the URLs you need to add to the "Web Radio" section of the music library. Of course it can also play all sorts of local files on a USB drive or on a network file server (CIFS/SMB or NFS). I would be happy to share my list of radio streams with you. Some of my favorites are Radio Caroline Flashback and KVF/KVF2 from the Faroe Islands. The app comes pre-populated with 4 streams from Radio Paradise, which I keep going back to. I did at one time have some stream URLs for BBC Radio channels but I rarely listen to the BBC.
Re: Smart Speaker
Author: geoffC
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:10
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:10
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On 20/07/2025 04:08, Mark Olson wrote: >"Worst wrote: >> >> Naturally, it occurs to me that I can receive BBS World Service >> through a smart speaker. I am therefore in the market, and I want to >> be sure I place an order before everyone else in this country comes to >> the same conclusion. Can anyone suggest a smart speaker that isn't >> joined at the hip with Amazon, Google, or Apple? (I already have >> OpenHAB home automation installed.) I am asking on Szociál Media >> because nothing that comes up on Google appears to be sold in the U.S. > >I listen to all sorts of radio streams through a software program >called 'rAudio' that runs under Arch Linux on a Raspberry Pi dedicated >to being a 'radio'. > >I usually pair the Bluetooth of the Pi with my non-smart Bluetooth >portable speaker. The Pi sits in one spot and I can drag the speaker >over most of the house. You can also hook up a DAC to the Pi and then >an amp or a powered speaker. > >https://github.com/rern/rAudio/ > >It's quite easy to install on an SD card, follow the instructions on >the githib page. The trick is to find the proper URL to access the >streams you want, vs. listening to them through a web app. But there >are directories out there listing the URLs you need to add to the >"Web Radio" section of the music library. Of course it can also play >all sorts of local files on a USB drive or on a network file server >(CIFS/SMB or NFS). > >I would be happy to share my list of radio streams with you. Some >of my favorites are Radio Caroline Flashback and KVF/KVF2 from the >Faroe Islands. The app comes pre-populated with 4 streams from Radio >Paradise, which I keep going back to. > >I did at one time have some stream URLs for BBC Radio channels but >I rarely listen to the BBC. > > BBC used to be quite easy to stream via a URL on something like "Screamer" radio but they kept changing the streams to make it more difficult. I used the BBC Sounds app for a while but that is changing soon for non UK residents. R4 and World Service will still be available for non-residents on the main BBC website though. -- Geoff NTV 650
Re: Smart Speaker
Author: Chris Deuchar
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 08:06
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 08:06
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On 20/07/2025 01:48, Worst Case@dizum.com wrote: > >Naturally, it occurs to me that I can receive BBS World Service >through a smart speaker. I am therefore in the market, and I want to >be sure I place an order before everyone else in this country comes to >the same conclusion. Can anyone suggest a smart speaker that isn't >joined at the hip with Amazon, Google, or Apple? (I already have >OpenHAB home automation installed.) I am asking on Szoci��l Media >because nothing that comes up on Google appears to be sold in the U.S. Radio.garden ? Online or in app. Covers the globe. Simples! HTH Chris
Re: Smart Speaker
Author: Mark Olson
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:38
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:38
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geoffC <me@home.nl> wrote: > On 20/07/2025 04:08, Mark Olson wrote: >>I did at one time have some stream URLs for BBC Radio channels but >>I rarely listen to the BBC. >> >> > > BBC used to be quite easy to stream via a URL on something like "Screamer" > radio but they kept changing the streams to make it more difficult. I used > the BBC Sounds app for a while but that is changing soon for non UK > residents. R4 and World Service will still be available for non-residents > on the main BBC website though. I found the same. It appears that at least a couple of people are maintaining lists of working BBC streaming URLs: https://gist.github.com/bpsib/67089b959e4fa898af69fea59ad74bc3 Unfortunately, the World Service URL from the above link appears to be dead, but some of the other work for me. https://gist.github.com/stengland/8705765
Re: Smart Speaker
Author: geoffC
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:19
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:19
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On 20/07/2025 11:38, Mark Olson wrote: >geoffC <me@home.nl> wrote: >> On 20/07/2025 04:08, Mark Olson wrote: > >>>I did at one time have some stream URLs for BBC Radio channels but >>>I rarely listen to the BBC. >>> >>> >> >> BBC used to be quite easy to stream via a URL on something like "Screamer" >> radio but they kept changing the streams to make it more difficult. I used >> the BBC Sounds app for a while but that is changing soon for non UK >> residents. R4 and World Service will still be available for non-residents >> on the main BBC website though. > >I found the same. > >It appears that at least a couple of people are maintaining lists of >working BBC streaming URLs: > >https://gist.github.com/bpsib/67089b959e4fa898af69fea59ad74bc3 > >Unfortunately, the World Service URL from the above link appears >to be dead, but some of the other work for me. > >https://gist.github.com/stengland/8705765 > > Thanks for that. Yes it was the m3u8 ones that queered my pitch:-) I'll try them on the PC when I get back home. I actually quite like the BBC Sounds app. All the content is easily accessible and some of it is high quality stuff imo. I listen mostly to R4 though. I registered my email address some time ago with a post address in UK so I'm hopeful. -- Geoff NTV 650
Re: Smart Speaker
Author: Simon Wilson
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:48
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:48
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On 20/07/2025 01:48, "Worst Case"@dizum.com wrote: <snip> A secondhand Sonos Play 1 or similar? Preferably one that is on S1 software. Though it's unclear to me which BBC stations will still be available overseas in the near future, as it's all changing again. -- /Simon
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