I thought if connected to the internet you could ‘tune in’ to any radio station worldwide ?
When staying with me in Spain a friend listens to a Melbourne music station.
Recently in Spain a friend got me to
listening to JFK ( jazz, funk, kool) an Ibiza radio station. Unfortunately “not available in your location” now i’m back in the UK.
why is that please…I was looking forward to some JFK whilst ironing my smalls on a miserable wet afternoon ?
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It will be "geoblocked". That means that, by referencing your IP address they can find your location and block you from accessing the site/stream.
This is often done for licensing/copyright reasons where the content is not allowed for these reasons outside the home region/country where it is hosted (and licensed).
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I believe the usual solution is a VPN which users servers in the host country to create the illusion of being a local IP address.
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Indeed, until the service puts in place logic to identify the use of a VPN.
BBC iPlayer, for instance, is geoblocked to allow only UK-based IP addresses. These can be "spoofed" by using a VPN, but a good few VPN services are identifiable by the BBC, and thus access via these is still blocked. (There are a few which, at least for now, manage to circumvent this).
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www.techradar.com/vpn/bbc-iplayer-vpn
A guide to which VPNs are good for iPlayer. I used
Express last month in Lanzarote and it was fine.
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>> BBC iPlayer, for instance, is geoblocked to allow only UK-based IP addresses. These can be
>> "spoofed" by using a VPN, but a good few VPN services are identifiable by the
>> BBC, and thus access via these is still blocked. (There are a few which, at
>> least for now, manage to circumvent this).
Nord VPN is still ok with BBC,
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>> Indeed, until the service puts in place logic to identify the use of a VPN.
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>> BBC iPlayer, for instance, is geoblocked to allow only UK-based IP addresses. These can be
>> "spoofed" by using a VPN, but a good few VPN services are identifiable by the
>> BBC, and thus access via these is still blocked. (There are a few which, at
>> least for now, manage to circumvent this).
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Try the Tor browser. It routes your connection through other countries. If it doesn't work at first then shut the browser down and restart it and it may connect through a different country.
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I cant get radio 2 any longer in sweden, but can still get greatest hits radio (which is better).
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I found NordVPN a bit hit and miss here in Portugal last visit, I think they sometimes know the NordVPN server addresses and block them (or maybe it's the crappy internet connection here!!) so I now run a Tailscale VPN on my always-on Pi at home to give me a UK exit point. works well so far...
(Also now using Channels DVR which is TiVo-like and which means I can watch Freeview stuff, either live or recorded, without a problem or a VPN!)
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Internet radio - tyrednemotional
