Live radio stream problems/queries

[Richard Mace]

I like to record radio 3's Late Junction program. I have been doing this
successfully via get_iplayer for a number of years, obviously, I
only keep the recordings for 30 days....
I like to use the live stream (rather than listen again) because of the
higher bit rate.
Lately, I have been having problems with the stream dropping out, this
causes the recording to fail and I have to fall back to the listen again
version.

To do my recording I normally use:-
get_iplayer 80134 --get --preset=liveradio
--outputliveradio=/home/richard/radio/$program/ --stop=$program_length
--force --over
 
This is the one that has been dropping out.
In an effort to get around the problem, I have reverted to the following
method:-

get_iplayer
"http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/gtis/?server=cp60703.live.edgefcs.net&identifier=Special_Event1_UK@s6485&kind=akamai&application=live" --get --preset=liveradio --outputtv=/home/richard/radio/$program/ --stop=$program_length --force --over
This is the method I used previously and still seems to work (to early
to tell whether will cure the drop_out problem as it may, in actual
fact, be the same stream as previous method).


While digging around trying to find a cure for this problem, I have been
using Firefox's "Web Developer" add-on to try to extract the url's from
iPlayer's links.

For radio 3 HQ, I get the following:-
"[10:03:28.774] GET
http://sa.bbc.co.uk/bbc/bbc/s?name=radio3.page&event_master_brand=bbc_radio_three&pal_route=service_show&ml_name=barlesque&app_type=web&language=en-GB&ml_version=0.14.2&pal_webapp=radio&prod_name=radio3&app_name=radio3&bbc_mc=ad1ps1pf1&screen_resolution=1366x768&blq_s=3.5&blq_r=3.5&blq_v=default-domestic&ns_ti=BBC%20-%20Radio%203%20-%20Home&ns_c=UTF-8&ns_type=hidden&action_type=click&action_name=listen_live&object_title=Essential%20Classics&tabname=&object_url=undefined&station=radio3&ns_ti=BBC%20-%20Radio%203%20-%20Home&prod_release=beta&ns__t=1350551008270&ns_jspageurl=http%3A//www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 33ms]"

I am a loss as to what part of this url can be used for get_iplayer as
the format is completely different to the previous one.
Can anyone here help me please?

Here's another (6 music "HQ" feed)
"[08:31:06.173] GET
http://sa.bbc.co.uk/bbc/bbc/s?name=6music.page&event_master_brand=bbc_6music&pal_route=service_show&ml_name=barlesque&app_type=web&language=en-GB&ml_version=0.14.2&pal_webapp=radio&prod_name=6music&app_name=6music&bbc_mc=ad1ps1pf1&screen_resolution=1366x768&blq_s=3.5&blq_r=3.5&blq_v=default-domestic&ns_ti=BBC%20-%20Radio%206%20Music%20-%20Home&ns_c=UTF-8&ns_type=hidden&action_type=click&action_name=listen_live&object_title=Shaun%20Keaveny&tabname=&object_url=undefined&station=6music&ns_ti=BBC%20-%20Radio%206%20Music%20-%20Home&prod_release=beta&ns__t=1350545465932&ns_jspageurl=http%3A//www.bbc.co.uk/6music/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 35ms]"

Apologies for the very long post :) 

Regards,
Richard
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