mr-b;693118 Wrote: 
> 
> However it still does beg the question what are the reasons for having
> the option to select between AAC/MP3 and WMA streams?
> I see that in the equivalent BBC iPlayer plugin, there is an order of
> preference e.g. AAC > MP3 > WMA, which seems to me might be more
> resilient to failure (or rather the whims of the BBC admin folks).

Only because iPlayer was rewritten more recently to do this.  The
applet is more restrictive and was written to enable wma mode as
default for radio as it has less resources (AAC originally caused radio
to crash in some cases...)


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