[ubuntu-uk] BBC iPlayer update: better radio support

[Michael G Fletcher]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:06 AM, George MacLeod <bhaltair at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2008/7/13 Jai Harrison <jai at jaiharrison.com>:
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>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Jason Liquorish <jason at dropshock.com> wrote:
>> > Apologies, I seemed to have pasted the address wrong in my last reply.
>> > The correct address for Radio 2 is
>> > mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/radio2_nb_e1s1
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>> Thank you so much, Jason.
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>> I now have Radio 2 in Rhythmbox and am listening to it right now :)
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> Has anyone else noticed the reduction in quality of the sound from the BBC? I have been listening to 6Music for ages now using the RealPlayer plug-in in Firefox and the sound was great. Since the IPlayer revamp the quality of the sound is abysmal,  it's very tinny and weak and is the same for all the stations.
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Sorry about the late response, but I must agree, the sound quality is
very sub-standard.  When using RealPlayer it was much better, and you
could pause/rewind live radio (at least with the latest realplayer10
in Linux)

I think the answer may be somewhere here -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/under_the_iplayer_hood_for_rad.shtml

this makes me mad! <quote>
We're doing this because we know online radio is particularly useful
in the office, and chances are that Windows Media is automatically
installed on most computers</quote> - thanks for thinking about the
rest of us! <rant over>

At the moment, I'm listening through Rhythmbox and I get a strange
thing when I connect, it buffers and plays for about 2 seconds, then
re-buffers and plays continually.  the first time it plays the sounds
quality sounds "better" than the second time...

--Michael

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