BBC Radio on your WiFi Nokia

Streaming radio to my N80 was one those things I just had to try, but strangely is a little more complex than you might think. I'm a big fan if BBC radio, but being overseas means the only way I get to listen is via the web sat next to my pc or laptop.

There are some fairly good radio streaming apps out there which make a good job of delivering live broadcasts over WiFi to your phone. Sadly though, however good these internet stations are, to listen to mainstream radio a little tweaking is required.

Series 60 phones come with Real Player as standard, which is great as most radio stations beoadcast over the web in the .ram Real Player format.

First off you need an understanding of a frustrating bug in the Real player settings. Regardless of whether you are connected or not Real Player requires you to manually change the preferred connection every time you wish to stream media. This is a real annoyance, but one which we have to accept until fixed in a later release.

So assuming I have a wireless network at home called 'home' then before beginning I need to open Real Player settings and change the network to 'home'.

Then it's off to the web browser to type in the address of a popular radio stream and off I go.

That's it, BBC streaming to my N80. I should note that it is also possible to add your streams via the web streams link in the gallery.

Finally some popular radio links to try:

BBC Radio 1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram
BBC Radio 2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/realmedia/fmg2.ram
BBC Radio 3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/ram/r3g2.ram
BBC Radio 4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/realplayer/media/fmg2.ram
Five Live http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/surestream_int.ram
World Service http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/live_infent.ram
1Xtra http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/realmedia/1xtralive.ram
6 Music http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/ram/dsatg2.ram
BBC 7 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/realplayer/dsatg2.ram
Asian network http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/rams/asiannetwork.ram
Five Live Sports Extra http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/surestream_sportsextra_int.ram