Here is a setup routine that I created two years ago, employ it for your BBC 3 stream as well as for any other stream.
1. File > Open URL > Enter URL of streaming file:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r3_aaclca.plsI have the
Show web media options when opening to allow recording and more check box unchecked.
2. Click OK to start playing the URL
3.
While that URL stream is playing immediately
left click on
Playing Now in the left tree.
4. A new window will open and you will see the Playing Now square-shaped-green-colored icon (with a white arrow inside) pointing to your now playing URL. Your item will be in bold type and named "No Title".
5. Right Click on the item and in the drop down menu follow the path: Send to > Playlist >
New Playlist6. Return to the left tree and left click on Playlists, in the drop down menu you will see your
New Playlist item that you created.
7. Now
Tag your new playlist. May I recommend that you give it the Album name
Web Radio. I also gave my Web Radio album a distinguished looking icon.
You can now close MC 18 and be confident that you can readily locate and replay your BBC URL item again - as well as any other URL that you have added into your Web Radio album. To do so you will go to the left tree and under
Audio you will see
Albums.
Next,
left click on Albums and look for your
Web Radio album. Hover your mouse over your Web Radio icon and you will see
Play or
Play | File depending on whether or not you have more than one item in your Web Radio album. Locate your URL in the Album display, you will be able to recognize it by identifying it under the
Filename column.
--> Highlight it and press F2 to rename it to BBC 3.
FYI I have opened and closed MC-18 multiple times today, each time that I selected BBC 3 from within my Web Radio album it launched and streamed.
Enjoy
Note to developers: For some unknown reason it seems that one cannot bypass the New Playlist route and simply tag the BBC 3 item and expect BBC 3 to sustain replay. Why the "New Playlist" maneuver was required is a puzzle.