Bugzilla – Bug 17270
Can't play any CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) stations since they switched to new URLs
Last modified: 2011-06-16 10:03:24 UTC
The CBC App for Squeezebox doesn't play any of the CBC stations anymore. You now choose the CBC station, press Play, and you hear a message: "If you are hearing this message, then you are connected to our old livestreaming URLs ...." The new URLs for all of their stations are listed on this web page: http://www.cbc.ca/listen/streams.html I don't know when they switched, but it must have been somewhat recent. Notified by Support.
URL in description above only lists "Listen Now / Listen Live" stations for CBC Radio 1 and Radio 2. Does not list URLs for other items which also do not play. I'll see if I can find the right URLs. Here's the complete list of categories that result in the "If you are hearing this message ..." announcement: - CBC Radio 1 Listen Live (East to West to ...) - CBC Radio 2 Listen Now - CBC Radio 2 Internet Radio (Music Channels) 404 File Not Found Error: - CBC Radio 3 Rock - CBC Radio 3 Electronic - CBC Radio 3 Pop - CBC Radio 3 HipHop These still work: - CBC Radio 1 Podcasts - CBC Radio 2 Podcasts - CBC Radio 3 Hosted Radio Stream - CBC Radio 3 Podcasts
The direct URLs for stations are these headings, - CBC Radio 1 Listen Live (East to West to ...) - CBC Radio 2 Listen Now - CBC Radio 2 Internet Radio (Music Channels) are listed at this URL: http://www.cbc.ca/listen/index.html Here's the URLs for the CBC Radio 3 music stations (from http://www.cbc.ca/listen/includes/directr3.html): Radio 3 Rock: http://webradio.cbcradio3.com/rock.m3u Radio 3 Electronica: http://webradio.cbcradio3.com/electronic.m3u Radio 3 Hip Hop: http://webradio.cbcradio3.com/hiphop.m3u Radio 3 Pop: http://webradio.cbcradio3.com/pop.m3u Note that Radio 3 app headings need tweaking too: - "Electronic" replaced with "Electronica" - "HipHop" replaced with "Hip Hop" These appear to be identical to the ones shown as 404, so I'm not sure what's going on with the 404 error.
CBC provides OPML, so this needs to be directed to them. The contact is Peter Cook, peter.cook@cbc.ca
Would be great to disable CBC app until it's fixed .....
How many people complaining? Severity of issue?
Looking for another CBC contact: The following message to <peter.cook@cbc.ca> was undeliverable. The reason for the problem: 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'No such recipient' Final-Recipient: rfc822;peter.cook@cbc.ca Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 (permanent failure) Remote-MTA: dns; [159.33.1.178] Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'No such recipient' (delivery attempts: 0) Will do some Googling.
Still tracking down CBC contact. In meantime, here's a CBC OPML column written by Peter: http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2009/03/18/tech_q_radio_2_podca_1.html
Found CBC contacts offering URLs in Excel spreadsheet. Not OPML, but at least will be something from CBC. Will attach to bug once I receive it. We'll probably still need to update existing OPML ourselves.
Bummer that Peter is gone, he was very helpful and created the entire OPML structure for their content. Will be harder to deal with now.
I'm going to contact him on LinkedIn and ask about who his successor is. http://ca.linkedin.com/in/petergcook
Created attachment 7310 [details] PDF of CBC spreadsheet with June 2011 radio station links Received spreadsheet from CBC. Attached is PDF copy.
As of June 9, 2011, app now has working Listen Live links. Other areas still need more work, such as menu organization and some incorrect links. Working with new CBC radio contact, so more changes possibly coming. New features so far include: - Podcast audio from CBC Television - Audio from Radio-Canada - Some languages from Radio-Canada International (RCI) - Links to latest Radio 2 podcasts
Case # 110608-002245 Customer not able to access the CBC app and play specific stations. Getting 404 File Not found Error message.