Pete  wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher   wrote:
>> version 1.16.0; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
>
> version 1.14.4; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others

Update. There might a playlist/redirect/chunked stream thing going on that
your version can't handle (same for omxplayer). I encountered that,
redirection in my case, with an older version of mpd, though not with the
bbc links. At first I couldn't update because the version I needed wasn't
in the Raspbian Jessie repo at the time. Only when they went to Stretch and
I updated my system to Stretch, too, did the new version become available
in the new repo. If you also need to move up from Jessie to Stretch, burn a
new sd card. If you're already on Stretch:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

To check your Raspbian/Debian version: cat /etc/apt/sources.list and see
what it says before "main".

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