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MadeinSurrey



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:49 am    Post subject: Listen Again - up the creek? Reply with quote

Thought I'd try listening to the first part of Alice Richardson's DP, but it's not on there! The last DP available is Aled's Friday show. I know it says there are problems with the LA function, anybody else noticed similar omissions?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No 'pause' function that worked whilst listening again to Steve Lamacq sitting in for Bob Harris at the weekend. Couldn't type quick enough between the songs and listening to them at the same time (and there was no playlist, which helps me enormously). After ten minutes of feverish typing I gave up - that's why there was no review for last week's programme.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't know if the same has happened here, but I once wanted to hear part of the JV show (I'd made a contribution) but the first bit was missing. I emailed the show and they came back to say part of it had been lost on the satellite that is used for it.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For now the BBC has advised to use the direct links from the show pages and not use the dedicated player.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's been knackered since they launched the iPlayer. Apparently this is just coincidence...

For pause and things like that you may be able to use Real Player. Works for me most times, but as a Mac user I find it easier to use anyway.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A work colleague of mine managed to Listen Again to Johnnie Walker with Steely Dan without any difficulty.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's been working fine for me today as well.

If it's only part of the show that is missing it will be to do with the satellite, problem not the general one that is affecting some programmes.

The one I'm quoting was missing the first 30 minutes.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ian Robinson wrote:
It's been knackered since they launched the iPlayer. Apparently this is just coincidence...

For pause and things like that you may be able to use Real Player. Works for me most times, but as a Mac user I find it easier to use anyway.


I just hate Real player, and I wish the Beeb wouldn't use Real Media Streaming Servers - the licences cost an absolute arm and leg as well.

Did you know that for the Mac you can use a plugin called Flip4Mac wich converts the Real stream to a Quicktime stream and then opens it in a quicktime player. You have much better control over the playback then as well. Still at lest on the mac you also have the fast-forward facility in Real that you don't have on the windows version.

PS: the iPlayer really sucks bigtime. I think the Beeb has again got it wrong. For a start it only works on windows pcs (thanks auntie - money for Real yet again!) and I think Apple will win over the beeb in the end anyhow.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is your original technophobe writing.

Some time ago I tried to Listen Again to items on BBC7 but had to abandon this, as attempts to access it froze my computer.

Is there any way that I could rectify this?

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Following on from Firewirefred's e-mail - I signed up for the beta BBC iPlayer at the weekend. Talk about jumping through hoops to get the thing installed. Couldn't have Firefox as my browser, had to revert to IE7. Had to enable cookies. Had to install Windows Media Player 11. Had to install the BBC iPlayer Library - and even when I did, the main software didn't recognise it. Eventually went onto a forum (the BBC haven't got this well-known problem in their FAQs) and managed to sort things out.

Took about an hour - nearly gave up in the end. All this so I can catch the odd documentary on BBC4 that my Freeview box won't pick up. Was it worth it, I ask myself? Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cherskiy wrote:
Following on from Firewirefred's e-mail - I signed up for the beta BBC iPlayer at the weekend. Talk about jumping through hoops to get the thing installed. Couldn't have Firefox as my browser, had to revert to IE7. Had to enable cookies. Had to install Windows Media Player 11.


It really annoys me the way the BBC panders to the likes of Microsoft and Real. Internet Explorer is pretty much the crappiest browser out there and yet everything's tied to it. WMP isn't actually bad as a media player, but I'd rather use the latest Quicktime. And so it goes on.....

And if you're one a rapidly-increasing number of Apple Mac users forget it. The Beeb doesn't care. It's Bill Gates or nothing.

It's all down to the complex DRM (digital rights management) software that's built into iPlayer, of course. They can keep it, as far as I'm concerned.

And what's the big idea of putting an "i" in front of every product name? Apple was doing that nearly 10 years ago.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Listen Again - up the creek? Reply with quote

MadeinSurrey wrote:
Thought I'd try listening to the first part of Alice Richardson's DP, but it's not on there! The last DP available is Aled's Friday show. I know it says there are problems with the LA function, anybody else noticed similar omissions?


It's actually on there, they've just forgotten to change the date. I've listened to part of yesterday and today this afternoon.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

According to their latest update, the player is fixed but they had to change the look of it in the process. I think it's only Local Radio that is still looking different now though.
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