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On Sat, 17 May 2008 10:47:57 +0100  'Terry Pinnell'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:

>Anyone else using RealPlayer Alternative please? It seems to do the
>job of playing BBC Today 'Listen Again' (.ram) clips adequately. But
>one annoying flaw here is that the slider doesn't work. Whatever
>position I move it to I get no sound. And that's true even if I've
>already played the whole clip.
>
>Do others get same behaviour please? Any fix/work-around?
>
>And (as I can't easily test it myself) does the slider work properly
>in RealPlayer?

I gave up using BBC 'Listen Again' and now use their podcasts.

URL for the Today Programme podcasts:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/today/rss.xml

...then d/l the MP3s you want.


-- 
most people don't like to hear the truth,
so they elect politicians to hide it from them.

hummingbird <hummingbird@127.0.0.1> wrote:

>
>On Sat, 17 May 2008 10:47:57 +0100  'Terry Pinnell'
>wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:
>
>>Anyone else using RealPlayer Alternative please? It seems to do the
>>job of playing BBC Today 'Listen Again' (.ram) clips adequately. But
>>one annoying flaw here is that the slider doesn't work. Whatever
>>position I move it to I get no sound. And that's true even if I've
>>already played the whole clip.
>>
>>Do others get same behaviour please? Any fix/work-around?
>>
>>And (as I can't easily test it myself) does the slider work properly
>>in RealPlayer?
>
>I gave up using BBC 'Listen Again' and now use their podcasts.
>
>URL for the Today Programme podcasts:
>http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/today/rss.xml
>
>...then d/l the MP3s you want.

Thanks, that's a handy alternative. Although shortcomings are:
1) You need to visit the main Listen Again site first to work out what
file you want
2) Very slow downloads; I'm getting 30 kB/s on broadband right now, on
that 11 MB MP3.
3) Not sure all the clips included? (e.g. The 'blunder clips'?)

-- 
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

On Sat, 17 May 2008 16:47:08 +0100  'Terry Pinnell'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:

>hummingbird <hummingbird@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
>>
>>On Sat, 17 May 2008 10:47:57 +0100  'Terry Pinnell'
>>wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:
>>
>>>Anyone else using RealPlayer Alternative please? It seems to do the
>>>job of playing BBC Today 'Listen Again' (.ram) clips adequately. But
>>>one annoying flaw here is that the slider doesn't work. Whatever
>>>position I move it to I get no sound. And that's true even if I've
>>>already played the whole clip.
>>>
>>>Do others get same behaviour please? Any fix/work-around?
>>>
>>>And (as I can't easily test it myself) does the slider work properly
>>>in RealPlayer?
>>
>>I gave up using BBC 'Listen Again' and now use their podcasts.
>>
>>URL for the Today Programme podcasts:
>>http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/today/rss.xml
>>
>>...then d/l the MP3s you want.


>Thanks, that's a handy alternative. Although shortcomings are:
>1) You need to visit the main Listen Again site first to work out what
>file you want

If you have a method to grab RSS feeds, you can once-off create
entries for any of the BBC feeds. Each BBC feed provides the URL
of the related podcast for direct download. It never used to until
I complained.

Here's one example of a recent RSS feed from Today programme:

<quote>
Are more parents sending their children to private school through
choice or necessity?

Related Medium Link (3.036.791 Bytes):
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/today/today_20080508-0949.mp3
</quote>

I just copy/paste the URLs I want into my download manager and set
it to go get...

>2) Very slow downloads; I'm getting 30 kB/s on broadband right now, on
>that 11 MB MP3.

Time to change ISP? ;-)

>3) Not sure all the clips included? (e.g. The 'blunder clips'?)

It varies ...the Today programme RSS feeds only cover selected
highlights but are usually available for d/l later that day. Other
BBC podcast feeds are for complete programmes (eg: Assignment,
FileOn4, OnePlanet, The Interview, MoneyBox). Some of those 
are BBC World Service progs...


-- 
most people don't like to hear the truth,
so they elect politicians to hide it from them.

On Sat 17 May 2008 19:49:50, FredW wrote:

> On Sat, 17 May 2008 10:47:57 +0100, Terry Pinnell
> <terrypin@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> 
>>Anyone else using RealPlayer Alternative please? It seems to do
>>the job of playing BBC Today 'Listen Again' (.ram) clips
>>adequately. 
> 
> BBC has its own version of Real Player:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/help/faq/download_and_install_realplayer
> .shtml 
> 


ISTR this particular version of Real Player is ad free and well 
behaved.