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Direct Link to Radio 1 “Listen Live” Online Stream

For those of you that listen to Radio 1 over the internet, this might come in handy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/wm_asx/aod/radio1.asx (low quality)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1.asx (high quality)

It is the direct link to the online stream, so you can paste this into an application like Winamp, VLC or whatever you use instead of having to keep a browser window open.

I am sure BBC don’t mind you using it like this but the url is buried in the html and is quite tricky to find (because of the frames) so hopefully this will save you some digging.

Thanks for all the comments and extra info

Further Stations
This also applies to BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r2.asx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r3.asx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r4.asx

And 1Extra:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1x.asx

Posted in Geek. Tagged with listen live, online radio, radio one.

By Carey
March 27, 2008

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  1. weenie said
    on April 11, 2008

    Cool, I’ll give this a go as I do listen to Radio 1 in the evenings over the net.

  2. Paul said
    on May 20, 2008

    Excellent, work block all radio sites, even through WMP, but opening this URL seems to have worked! Mint. (Knew our IT was Pants!).

  3. Adam said
    on October 3, 2008

    Genius – finally it works at work!

  4. Ryan said
    on November 26, 2008

    Quality Mate Thanks.

  5. Marc said
    on December 8, 2008

    Fantastic. Thanks, been suffering with radio 1 cutting out randomly whilst listening through real player or real alternative for months.
    Posting this link in to WMP has stopped me needing to restart it every 10-20 mins!

  6. Ben said
    on January 12, 2009

    The url doesn’t work any more. Or is it my computer’s fault? I would like to feed my internet radio with it…

  7. Carey said
    on January 13, 2009

    That link should still work – I just tested it.

  8. Haydn said
    on January 15, 2009

    Cheers, Used at school! The normal radio 1 website doesnt work but this does so sound mate.

  9. Urban Pykey said
    on January 17, 2009

    Thanks for the link. i use Ubuntu so dont have realplayer or windows media player but this link works great with both VLC and Amarok!

    Thanks

  10. Leah said
    on January 30, 2009

    How do I play this in Windows Media Player? I’m trying to do it from work.

  11. tom said
    on February 12, 2009

    no u just copy nd paste the link

  12. Will said
    on March 23, 2009

    Thank you so much! The realplayer pop-up on the radio 1 site SUCKS, but this works a treat!

  14. Ali said
    on May 8, 2009

    Is it possible to find the listen again links like this?
    Cheers

  15. Jay said
    on May 22, 2009

    I cant get the link to work through WMP or Winamp!! please help what am I doing wrong??

  16. Steve Maryin said
    on May 27, 2009

    Thanks!

    Both links work, the top one is low bandwidth and Penna’s link is the high quality stream ;oP

  17. Connor said
    on June 4, 2009

    Copy and Paste It Top Bar Thankyou I Use For Programs Like When Playing Games Thx For Link

  18. alan said
    on June 26, 2009

    Thx so much from a Brit in Switzerland.

    Now we just need iPlayer to work!

    Thx again

  19. Al said
    on June 26, 2009

    I have to give you more credit. My internet buggered up so I have a slinky (very wireless sensitive) little DELL. I plugged in to the swiss free broadband system. This link has not broken once.
    I had found the low bandwith BBC thing but this has been seamless for 6 hours. Amazing. TY TY TY

  20. kenny (scotland) said
    on July 5, 2009

    superb. thanx. this works for me was using other ones which dont work no more. Thanx. brilliant !

  21. Dan (stockholm said
    on September 4, 2009

    Thanks alot for this link for some reason my work blocked this site and i dont think i could work without radio 1 playing so its very apprciated

    from a Brit in stockholm

  22. anonymous said
    on October 17, 2009

    can i get it to work in itunes?

  23. Sam said
    on October 22, 2009

    awesome mate! well done son :) have been dying for radio one in texas since coming frm glasgow! love it

  24. Martin said
    on November 1, 2009

    Thanks Carey :)

  25. Ian said
    on November 11, 2009

    This is a really cool link and guess what if you change the “1″ in the above URL to a “2″ you get radio two. Brill !!!!!!

  26. Carey said
    on November 12, 2009

    Thank you Ian, I will add that to the main post so everyone can see.

  27. ND said
    on November 20, 2009

    Thank you so much I have been looking for a way to listen to radio 1 at work for ages!!

  28. Gill said
    on January 14, 2010

    do you have the url for Radio 1 Xtra??

  29. CtM said
    on January 21, 2010

    Follows the same schema as the rest:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r2.asx

  30. CtM said
    on January 21, 2010

    Ok, minor fail on my part there, the link points to the right place, but the clickable part is wrong. I’ll try again
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1x.asx
    Apologies for the double post.

  31. GP said
    on February 19, 2010

    Works great! Thanks!!!

    Where did you find the stream link in the html?

  32. Carey said
    on February 20, 2010

    No problem guys!

    Thanks for the info on that @CtM

    @GP – the links was hidden within the player popup, inside a frame. Takes a little bit of web dev knowledge to figure it out, but I got there!

    Keep listening guys and don’t forget the podcasts on BBC, love the Radio1 ones, especially Moyles, Mills and the Annie Mac Mashup!

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