Hi, I'm looking for a list of static URLs of all the BBC radio streams that are available - can anyone point me to such a resource? The main problem I'm having is I want to be able to listen to archived streams (ie radio from the last week that I missed) in standalone real player easily - currently there's no option to do so in the online aod/audio on demand player. The only way around this is to view the HTML source to obtain the stream URL and then manually open that URL in standalone Real Player.
FWIW here's a copy of the mail I sent to the BBC support address, it may (or may not!) make things a little clearer: -snip- Hi, Is there a list of *static* real player feed URLs all in one place and if so where is it? The problem I have is that I want to be able to listen to archived stream content in the standalone realplayer - not in the web based audio on demand/embedded realplayer radio player - but currently you can only do this with live feeds. For example listening to a live feed in the web based player you see a link 'Listen using stand-alone Real Player' - unfortunately this link doesn't appear when listening to anything that's not live. This is a problem for me because you can't 'rewind' back through archive feeds easily in the web based player - you only have the options to move forward 5 or 15 minutes - which is no good if you accidentally miss the bit you were after or want to rewind and relisten to something! Right now what I have to do to find the stream URL is this: 1. Open the archive I want to listen to in the AOD web based player - for example open up the archived stream for annie mac's radio1 show in the web player: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio1/aod.shtml?radio1/r1anniemac 2. View the HTML source for the player HTML frame and work out that the url for the stream is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio1/r1anniemac.rpm 3. Finally grab the actual realplayer stream from that URL - rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/r1anniemac.ra in this case. Is there any way to get hold of a comprehensive list of radio streams that the BBC offers without having to go through the above for each? A simple thing that would really make this problem disappear for me would be to provide a link in the audio player to listen to the stream in the standalone realplayer. As I say above only the live feeds have this feature, not the archived/older radio shows where you only have the option to skip forward 5 or 15 minutes. There's no technical reason I can think of why such a link isn't possible, it just seems to have been missed out by accident! Thanks for any advice you can give me. Jez -snip- Cheers! -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://freebsd.munk.nu/ - A FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/ - ipfw peruser traffic logging
