Talk:IPlayer Radio

I'm currently in the process of re-writing this page, so apologies if its a bit of a jumble, but it'll get there

Point 4 16:11, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

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I can't really understand this article. I also think it's outdated, as it seems there is no longer a Real stream for many programs. It seems odd that there are so many iplayer TV downloaders but not an easy radio one. I think I may have to resort to audio output recording.

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It was bang up to date until about Tuesday. I haven't had any Real Audio downloads work since Monday. get_iplayer.pl was perfect before - you've just come in at a time when it's between working versions.

Strawp 11:17, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

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It seems like there's real streams where again where there weren't last week. I'm able to use my old method again. I use flashget to grab the .ram and SUPER to convert to mp3.

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get_iplayer.pl does all that plus searching and ID3 tagging. Not sure how well that would work under Windows though.

Strawp 23:12, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

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I have been unable to get get_iplayer.pl working for radio on windows vista (i was going to try on XP, but never got round to it), it works fine for TV but can't get anything for radio. The method described on this page seems to work pretty well for me, i use mplayer to dump the .ra stream and then convert it to wav which i then trim the extra time at either end in Audacity which also conveniently exports to mp3.--88.107.173.81 22:54, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Real Audio streams being phased out by BBC iPlayer
At Jan 2010, the RealAudio streams are no longer default iPlayer streams. Some are still available but BBC is phasing them out. This mainly started in October 2009. As part of the process the BBC is I understand also making changes to other streams including those used by windows machines and the streams available for Internet Radio use.

There is extensive discussion on the iPlayer Messageboard hosted by the BBC. For official and definative information probably the best source is the BBC Blogs see for example BBC - Radio Labs: RealMedia - an update & [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2009/12/wma_listen_again.shtml BBC - Radio Labs: Windows Media - Listen Again - Update ]

Hope you do not mind a passing reader making comments, it is well intentioned trying to leave an update for your discussion flagged from the mesasge. But no idea of your netiquete or procedures 94.7.179.210 John 99 94.7.179.210 13:39, January 21, 2010 (UTC)

No, you're quite welcome - thanks! Strawp 16:13, January 21, 2010 (UTC)