Jai Harrison wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Rob Stent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In the last couple of days the BBC iPlayer website has been revamped, >> including the availability of most radio programmes in flash format, the >> same as the TV shows. >> >> I'm sure I'm not alone in having had various problems in getting the >> BBC's Real Audio and Windows Media radio programmes to play in Ubuntu, >> so I thought it might be useful to draw attention to this development. >> >> Currently listening to Colin Murray in said format >> > > I noticed this but it's only really ideal if we can launch a station > (e.g. Radio 2) from a launcher and play it in a media player on our > desktop. Everything else I listen to in Rythmbox (as controlled by a > Cairo Dock applet). If listening to the BBC Radio Stations could be > integrated to this then I would tune into Radio 2. > > As it stands I don't think it can easily be done which means BBC Radio > 2 don't have me as a listener. I think similar applies to a lot of > FOSS users. >
I have added Radio 1 and 2 to Rhythmbox quite easily. The address for the Radio 2 feed is mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/ just add that as a radio station and it should play fine. -- Jason Liquorish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
