CBC moves radio streams to Akamai

Our household tunes into CBC Radio One every morning and evening. Some years ago we hooked up a digital media player, the Squeezebox, to our audio system only to find that RFI from the WiFi in the Squeezebox jammed up AM 690!

After a little sleuthing I managed to get SlimServer to connect (via `mplayer`) to CBC‘s Internet audio streams and all was well and good in the world.

Until a couple of days ago.

To control costs CBC has pushed their streaming audio out through Akamai content delivery services and all the URL‘s changed. Mplayer (at least on my FreeBSD Unix setup) doesn’t much like the ASX file format that Windows Media uses, so I dug through the various levels and indirection and came up with the direct link to the Akamai content.

I’m told by someone in the know at CBC that the Akamai links are permanent (static, not dynamic) which is good news indeed.

If you listen to Radio One in Vancouver, here’s the mms link.

For a list of CBC.ca URLs for radio streams, visit: http://www.cbc.ca/listen/streams.html