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New BBC Radio 3 streams

TL;DR --  Plug  http://lstn.lv/bbc.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_three&bitrate=320000  into the streaming player of your choice.  Be happy! For audio streaming, I use Volumio running on a RaspberryPi 4 with a HiFiBerry DAC . Set up was simple and there's a smart phone ap for remote control.  The reminder of my set up is a Dayton Audio DTA-1 "T Amp" , driving a pair of Wharfedale Diamond 5 loudspeakers (designed by my friend and coauthor, Richard Lee).  Great sound for about $250.  I use Volumio's DSP plug in to add a couple of dB of bass below 80 Hz, and 2.5 dB of treble above 4 kHz. This setup worked well with the BBC's legacy 128 kbit/sec MP3 Shoutcast streams, but the BBC shut them down about a year ago.  A couple of months before the MP3 streams ended, I found a GitHub "gist" with the URLs of their new MPEG-4 DASH streams [1].  For listeners outside the UK, the highest bit rate available was 96 kbit/sec. With MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding (A...