In 2014, the BBC made a decision not to support direct Windows Media Player URL streams ( The announcement ). Directing users to their iPlayer website/app. For those who are still interested in the old URL; paths to those streams (which still work yet not listed on the website), I made a list of all the addresses that I could find: BBC Radio 1 - http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/mediaset/http-icy-mp3-a/vpid/bbc_radio_one/format/pls.pls BBC Radio 1Xtra - http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/mediaset/http-icy-mp3-a/vpid/bbc_1xtra/format/pls.pls BBC Radio 2 - http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/mediaset/http-icy-mp3-a/vpid/bbc_radio_two/format/pls.pls BBC Radio 3 - http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/mediaset/http-icy-mp3-a/vpid/bbc_radio_three/format/pls.pls BBC Radio 4 - http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/mediaset/http-icy-mp3-a/vpid/bbc_radio_fourfm/format/pls.pls BBC Radio 4 Extra - http://ope