Owen Smith wrote: > That BBC blog post says Listen Again WMA streams end next week. Now does > that mean just WMA, or as with listen live does it actually mean the end > of the ShoutCast streams? One of the commentors on that blog post says > that by the end of February Listen Again will be HLS only though they > don't quote their source. If this is true then everything becomes much > more serious as we lose Listen Again. At which point I don't think > there's any solution except an updated iPlayer plugin, there are too > many ever changing URLs to bookmark them for PlayHLS use. > > I'm a little concerned there have been no postings from Triode on this > entire situation. Hi Owen, I think you may be referring to my post?... I > might be wrong about that but from what I have read it sounds like 'Listen Again' is about to have a lobotomy down to MP3 format and only things that are currently available as a Podcast, thus a limited list of programmes ref. "http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/28dfd220-7ca1-3683-ac16-3938cfb4b882":
> Providing a replacement for listen again (ie not live radio) is a much > more difficult problem. Without windows media, the only other way that > these devices can receive an audio file is to download it in an > unprotected format. This would contravene the BBC’s agreements > with rights holders (record companies, publishers, writers etc.) which > require copyright material to be protected. > > Windows Media accounts for 2-5% of on demand online listening. Some of > this 2-5% of online listeners will be able to switch to our new feeds, > some will not. > > Continuing to serve Windows Media is too expensive at a time when the > BBC is facing significant cuts in its funding. It requires special > infrastructure to serve it and the industry is moving away from > providing it as an option. We have explored the potential to set up an > authentication process to provide downloads to these devices, in a way > that would meet our rightsholder agreements, but this would also be > complicated and expensive. > > We will continue to make listen again available for programmes where the > BBC has download rights and the material is made available as a podcast. > Podcasts will still be available on these devices as mp3 If anyone knows different, I'd love to be corrected, as I'll deeply miss the wide range of programs that I can 'Listen Again' to when working in my garage in the evening etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ W92Neriah's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34111 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
