Re: [Dorset] Listening to BBC Radio stations online without iPlayer
Hi Fred, Unfortunately the BBC stopped offering real media streams back in the summer, I haven't yet managed to find an alternative stream. In the end I bought an old Psion Wavefinder off of ebay to listen to the radio through my PC. Not all that portable though. On 16 Nov 2010 18:15, StarLion duked...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I've found a little problem with listening to BBC Radio stations, and possibly others online. Normally I feed Rhythmbox the URL for the stream and listen live through it, but apparently they've changed something and now those URLs are 404ing on me. There doesn't seem to be any sign of new ones, and what's more the website wants the iPlayer, which I've yet again tried to get working on Arch, and yet again found it's a fairly lost cause. I was wondering if anyone knew if there were any new URLs I can give Rhythmbox to get it working again, or if anyone knew of an iPlayer-less nice and simple way to get access to them without all the hassle. Fred Williams -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
[Dorset] Listening to BBC Radio stations online without iPlayer
Fred, I understand your dislike for the iPlayer (needs Adobe and .net4 huge downloads).Nevertheless I have set up the latest iPlayer on the Acer Aspire One netbook which works fine using Ubuntu NR 10.04 Hey all, I've found a little problem with listening to BBC Radio stations, and possibly others online. Normally I feed Rhythmbox the URL for the stream and listen live through it, but apparently they've changed something and now those URLs are 404ing on me. There doesn't seem to be any sign of new ones, and what's more the website wants the iPlayer, which I've yet again tried to get working on Arch, and yet again found it's a fairly lost cause. I was wondering if anyone knew if there were any new URLs I can give Rhythmbox to get it working again, or if anyone knew of an iPlayer-less nice and simple way to get access to them without all the hassle. -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Listening to BBC Radio stations online without iPlayer
In the end I bought an old Psion Wavefinder off of ebay to listen to the radio through my PC. Not all that portable though. Very nice device, and not too difficult to get working in Linux with OpenDAB (if you have 32 bit). -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Listening to BBC Radio stations online without iPlayer
On 16/11/2010 20:17, Dan Dart wrote: In the end I bought an old Psion Wavefinder off of ebay to listen to the radio through my PC. Not all that portable though. Very nice device, and not too difficult to get working in Linux with OpenDAB (if you have 32 bit). My original design for it was to hook it up to Icecast and stream the entire BBC multiplex on different channels. Should have given me nice flash-free radio streams again. Never quite got OpenDAB to decode more than 1 station at a time though. -- Dan Wentworth http://www.phoenixdev.co.uk/ -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
