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This tutorial will show you how to listen to your favourite BBC radio stations on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

First you'll need to download FStream from the iTunes Application Store. Tthe application is free, and if you don't know how to do this please visit Apple's help pages.

Application Store

iPhone home screen

Once the application has downloaded successfully you should see the main FStream interface.

FStream Main Interface

Tap the Favourites tab and you'll be presented with a blank screen. Then tap the Edit button.

Fstream Favorites Tab

Tap the "Add new webradio" button.

Adding new web radio

You will then be presented with a screen asking you to input the radio information.

creating a favorite

The first thing you'll need to do is enter the name of the radio station, in this case BBC Radio 4.

You'll then need to type in the URL of the radio stream (these can be found here).

Name of radio station

You don't need to select anything in Encoding box.

main edit screen

Tap the "Done" button. This will send you back to the Favourites screen, when you should tap the "Done" button and go back to the Play tab

click done

main favorites screen

BBC Radio 4 has been added to your playlist. Tap the play icon and then the radio
stream should start to play. If it doesn't work you may need to go back check that you entered the correct URL of the radio stream.

Disconected

Playing

Remember you can do more than just listen to BBC Radio stations, in fact there are thousands of independent web radio stations out there streaming great content.

If you need further help with this tutorial, please do not hesitate to contact the BBCStreams.com team.

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