Re: [slim] BBC radio 4 via rhapsody vs via alienBBC: rights restrictions craziness

2010-01-06 Thread bpa
The BBC WMA feeds which work for both UK and non UK users can be found here http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/streaming_programmes/real_wma_streams You can copy these URLs and make them favorites. The "Radiofeeds UK & Ireland" App also has the up to date BBC URLs for WMA streams. --

Re: [slim] BBC radio 4 via rhapsody vs via alienBBC: rights restrictions craziness

2010-01-06 Thread DaveWr
BPA is the expert in this area. Now you have explained your arrangement of Squeezebox Server is on a NAS, I can understand you have stuttering problems. Most of the BBC radio feeds require some transcoding which I suspect your NAS can't hack. BPA my be able to provide some suggestions / debuggi

Re: [slim] BBC radio 4 via rhapsody vs via alienBBC: rights restrictions craziness

2010-01-06 Thread amorphia
Thanks for the thoughts, folks. If I contact the BBC or their forums, can anyone explain exactly what is the nature of the stream I am accessing through Rhapsody? Without that information, surely no one at the BBC could help. True that I am playing the LW service, not FM. I couldn't find FM on rh

Re: [slim] BBC radio 4 via rhapsody vs via alienBBC: rights restrictions craziness

2010-01-06 Thread bpa
Stop using AlienBBC - the BBC are stopping the RealAudio streams and they seems to have downgraded the service. Use the BBCiPlayer plugin or even just the plain WMA streams which BBC enabled to non UK in June 2009. It sounds like you are playing the Radio 4 LW service and not Radio 4 FM. LW ser

Re: [slim] BBC radio 4 via rhapsody vs via alienBBC: rights restrictions craziness

2010-01-06 Thread DaveWr
I suggest you will have to contact someone at the BBC, they own the rights restriction management. I think this is where you need to start: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbiplayer/ Glad you like the BBC - maybe they should have a Paypal donation site ;-) Dave -- DaveWr ---

[slim] BBC radio 4 via rhapsody vs via alienBBC: rights restrictions craziness

2010-01-06 Thread amorphia
Hi all, Living not in the UK, I constantly use my squeezebox for listening to BBC Radio 4. I always used to use AlienBBC which is nice but I got a lot of stuttering and rebuffering problems. Then I discovered that Rhapsody (via Squeeze Network) provides Radio 4 as a stream, and that it works wond