Re: top and tail adverts. Surely advertising is against the BBC Charter - in tne UK anyway.
But when we were in Malta recently the BBC News website was heavily advertising Vodaphone and even after reporting these intrusions to Google they persisted and took up much of the screen display. And I do know that BBC World Service on t.v. is also heavily contaminated by such inane adverts. . SB -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 25/3/19, Jim web <w...@audiomisc.co.uk> wrote: Subject: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Date: Monday, 25 March, 2019, 15:29 In article <e8b77ac1-7f2f-be81-1919-190d9692b...@zoho.com>, RS <richard...@zoho.com> wrote: > Why do you need to use get_iplayer? Click the link in your email. > Click the link to the episode you want to download. Click Download. > Select Higher quality or Lower quality. Choose where to download it. > If you really want to use get_iplayer > get_iplayer --pid p066rd9t --pid-recursive --type radio This prompts me to ask a question about the way 'podcasts' in some cases seem to inconsistently be 'replacing' versions of the broadcast versions. Particularly for the World Service. Using the standard 'radio' method some examples now give me the 'podcasted version' with some kind of top-and-tail adverts or glue-ons which weren't aired via conventional radio. This seems to happen, or not, with no warning or choice. On some recent occasions the standard attempt to fetch fails. Instead I get told to use hafmed, haflow, or hlalow modes. I've not yet experimented further but then find that using the 'download' icon on the relevant programme's wepage offers me only a 128kbps (or lower) mp3 *NOT* a 320k aac file. I can't recall specific examples as I've not yet made notes. But one of the short 'More or Less' snippets on WS last week did the latter. Anyone else encountered this or got to the bottom of it? Are there now BBC radio programs which can't be obtained as 320k aac or 'as broadcast'? Or is this a confused side-effect of the desperate rollout of 'Sounds'. Or do I mean "Zounds!" as it seems a bit like going back into the past?... :-) Jim -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
