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On 28 Jan 2009, at 12:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 23:41:32 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> I should have stated that he has almost no interest in listening to |
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>> music. |
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>> He wants to listen to news form around the world. BBC, NPR and |
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>> whatever he |
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>> can find. |
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> I don't know whether the BBC streams in mp3 or just allows you to |
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> download |
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> things in that format. Its main streaming service uses the REAL |
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> protocol |
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> these days. |
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Yes, it's Real if you go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/ and click on |
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the "Listen Live" button. |
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I experimented with saving these with mplayer recently, and I believe |
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that you may need to use its --playlist option in order for the URLs |
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to work right. However I was successfully able to cancel the recording |
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and resume using the same URL, which makes me think one could use cron |
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to record shows on schedule. |
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The BBC iPlayer now offers radio, too, and I am given to understand |
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that its radio shows are in decent (high?) quality MP3 format. You can |
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download iPlayer shows using the iplayer-dl script <http://www.google.com/search?q=+iplayer-dl |
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> but I think you need to know the ID number of the show first, which |
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you need to get from the iPlayer website. So this may not be so good |
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for casual listening (official iPlayer may be good for that). |
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If anyone knows of an overlay which tracks iplayer-dl, BTW, please let |
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me know. |
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Stroller. |
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