Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-25 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 24/11/2007, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 23, 2007 12:20 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [quoting me in April] It's possible for all our podcasts to be produced in Ogg Vorbis automatically, too. Indeed, all our on-demand audio is already encoded into

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-24 Thread Noah Slater
On 24/11/2007, Stuart Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is this, because it is pretty simple to copy the stream to a file and and save it. I read the terms and conditions and there was nothing to prevent me doing this for my personal use. Of course, there is already a free software tool to do

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-24 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 24/11/2007, Stuart Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tristan Ferne said the following on 23/11/07 09:39: The programmes on the Radio Player are presented as streams only. The BBC's agreements with rights holders prevent the BBC from authorising copies being made of internet audio

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-24 Thread Noah Slater
On 24/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And why is this different to the broadcast radio where there are plenty of devices that allow the recording of a radio program. Because when it is broadcast it's a single one-to-many pipe, streaming is lots of small pipes.. But

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-24 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 24/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And why is this different to the broadcast radio where there are plenty of devices that allow the recording of a radio program. Because when it is broadcast it's a single

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-24 Thread Michael Sparks
On Saturday 24 November 2007 15:05:05 Stuart Ward wrote: Why is this, because it is pretty simple to copy the stream to a file and and save it. I read the terms and conditions and there was nothing to prevent me doing this for my personal use. If a copyright license doesn't explicitly allow

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-24 Thread Martin Belam
So what you are really saying is that as long as it is not generally known that saving streams is easy to do, then this is fig leaf to placate the rights holders. To be less glib than I have been on here recently, erm, pretty much that is it. *I* know you can rip streams to files to keep for

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-24 Thread James Cridland
On Nov 23, 2007 12:20 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [quoting me in April] It's possible for all our podcasts to be produced in Ogg Vorbis automatically, too. Indeed, all our on-demand audio is already encoded into Ogg Vorbis, for when it becomes a popular codec (and we're

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-24 Thread Noah Slater
On 24/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody thinks DRM is safe - it just has to be safe enough. I wouldn't say it was safe at all, but I know you weren't talking about our perspective. ;) -- Noah Slater http://www.bytesexual.org/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-23 Thread Brendan Quinn
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Sent: 23 November 2007 14:55 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music What Podcasts (if any) are people listening to? See this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/siteusage/#downloads

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-23 Thread Martin Belam
This is a particular feature of Internet Explorer 7, I find. Google Reader does the same as well -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On 22/11/2007, Michael Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not a direct answer from the man himself and It's obviously not BBC policy but: James Cridland, now Head of Future Media Technology, BBC Audio Music Interactive, wrote to this mailing list in February whilst he was still with

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-23 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 23/11/2007, Tristan Ferne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andy, How does one report faults experienced in the downloads? If anyone at the BBC has access to the BBC's fault tracking system (if you have one) perhaps you could add: I have asked around and I can try to answer some of your

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-23 Thread Tristan Ferne
Hi Andy, How does one report faults experienced in the downloads? If anyone at the BBC has access to the BBC's fault tracking system (if you have one) perhaps you could add: I have asked around and I can try to answer some of your points... When accessing feeds for BBC podcasts it lists

Bagpipes ( was Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music )

2007-11-23 Thread Michael Sparks
On Friday 23 November 2007 12:20:11 Dave Crossland wrote: It will become a popular codec by influential people publishing audio in it, like Virgin and the BBC, and by people learning to value software freedom and requesting audio publishers to use the format. I hope not, the last thing the

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Michael Sparks
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 23:35:46 Tim Dobson wrote: This is not an argument about ethics, Dave keeps turning it into one. I was trying to point out the self same thing to him. Please consider researching this. What specifically do you think I don't understand, and on what basis have you

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
The BBC does have to obey the law. Including copyright law. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Dobson Sent: 21 November 2007 23:36 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music On 21/11/2007

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Brian Butterworth
something which it does not. Which is technically an offense... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Dobson Sent: 21 November 2007 23:36 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music On 21/11/2007

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
what do you mean by is technically an offence. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 22 November 2007 10:41 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music On 22/11/2007

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Sean DALY
I agree with what Michael says. However I'm not sure the rights holders insist on DRM. They insist on protection of their income which flows from copyright, which is not the same thing. DRM is today's solution to provide that protection, but it is broken, costly, complicated, annoys end users,

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Tim Cowlishaw
On 22 Nov 2007, at 10:52, Sean DALY wrote: * How about outright payment for perpetual rights? Way too expensive, especially worldwide. Need this necessarily be the case though? considering that broadcast (and arts / media / entertainment sector in general) is one of the most

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Tom Loosemore
* How about outright payment for perpetual rights? Way too expensive, especially worldwide. i'm not so sure. Ofcom's (my current employer) view is that the ability to copy and share in perpetuity is an adherent *advantage* if your aim is to deliver public service media (BBC etc.) It may cost

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread zen16083
] BBC Podcasts Including Music On 22 Nov 2007, at 10:52, Sean DALY wrote: * How about outright payment for perpetual rights? Way too expensive, especially worldwide. Need this necessarily be the case though? considering that broadcast (and arts / media / entertainment sector in general) is one

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
] BBC Podcasts Including Music The BBC does have to obey the law. Including copyright law. But the BBC does not have to do things that extend the law. I saw a bus shelter yesterday which had a it is illegal to smoke in this bus shelter sign on it in Churchill Square, Brighton yesterday

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Andy
Anyway back vaguely on topic: How does one report faults experienced in the downloads? If anyone at the BBC has access to the BBC's fault tracking system (if you have one) perhaps you could add: When accessing feeds for BBC podcasts it lists many episodes, the enclosure links for these are

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread David Greaves
The BBC does have to obey the law. Including copyright law. But the BBC does not have to do things that extend the law. I saw a bus shelter yesterday which had a it is illegal to smoke in this bus shelter sign on it in Churchill Square, Brighton yesterday. However, the shelter's

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Carlos Roman
Which programmes are you getting a 404 for? Can you give some examples please. In theory, once the file is removed from live then there shouldn't be a link to them in the RSS feed. Think because we only got rights from the PPL we have to stick to UK only on those podcasts. It is a shame but

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Brian Butterworth
] On Behalf Of David Greaves Sent: 22 November 2007 14:34 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music The BBC does have to obey the law. Including copyright law. But the BBC does not have to do things that extend the law. I saw a bus shelter

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
2007 16:17 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music Nick, On 22/11/2007, Nick Reynolds-AMi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So its not technically an offence then. Is there such a thing as legal creep? It's either legal or it isn't

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Sean DALY
Is there such a thing as legal creep? It's either legal or it isn't. Nick, I think what was meant is when rules, or regulations, or technical measures such as DRM go beyond what is legal. For example, an FBI logo-style warning shown at the beginning of a DVD, long enough to annoy me but not

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
Andy - why don't you ask these questions on the Radio Labs blog? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Sent: 22 November 2007 14:41 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music Anyway back vaguely

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread David Greaves
Sean DALY wrote: From a technical standpoint, how simple can it be to design a DRM system compatible with the copyright law of the world's 20 biggest markets? You have got to be kidding - right? Whole chunks of the judicial system has a hard enough time determining the copyright law of ONE

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread David Greaves
Nick Reynolds-AMi wrote: Is there such a thing as legal creep? It's either legal or it isn't. Indeed - under certain jurisdictions copying music is legal. 'Fair Use'. However the music industry would have you believe that it is always illegal. That would be legal creep - no, it doesn't change

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-22 Thread Michael Walsh
On 22/11/2007, Carlos Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which programmes are you getting a 404 for? Can you give some examples please. In theory, once the file is removed from live then there shouldn't be a link to them in the RSS feed. Think because we only got rights from the PPL we have to

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-21 Thread Tristan Ferne
] on behalf of Brian Butterworth Sent: Wed 11/21/2007 6:34 AM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music On 21/11/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is kind of the figures I was expecting

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 21/11/2007, Tristan Ferne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't actually remember where this started Perhaps you can turn on threaded view in your email program (or use a free software one like Thunderbird that has such a feature, if yours doesn't) Eg,

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-21 Thread Brian Butterworth
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian Butterworth Sent: Wed 11/21/2007 6:34 AM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music On 21/11/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-21 Thread Tristan Ferne
Ummm...personally I have absolutely no idea, sorry. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian Butterworth Sent: Wed 11/21/2007 12:00 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music On 21/11/2007, Tristan Ferne [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-21 Thread Martin Deutsch
On 11/21/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just as an aside, I have a collection of BBC Sound Effects records on vinyl, can I use 30 second snippets of these on a future podcast? For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Sound_Effects_No._19_-_Doctor_Who_Sound_Effects

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-21 Thread Tim Dobson
On 21/11/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you can turn on threaded view in your email program (or use a free software one like Thunderbird that has such a feature, if yours doesn't) To be honest, I'm waiting to for thunderbird to get an extension to make it just like

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-21 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 21/11/2007, Martin Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/21/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just as an aside, I have a collection of BBC Sound Effects records on vinyl, can I use 30 second snippets of these on a future podcast? For example:

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-21 Thread Michael Sparks
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 00:16:13 Dave Crossland wrote: ... on this issue like that; merely that they should not contribute to the problem by only using proprietary or patent-encumbered formats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2#Patent_holders You won't be watching TV after digital

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-21 Thread Tim Dobson
On 21/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How very .. classic .. of you to use a desktop application. My laptop is liberated without being weighed down by Outlook, online applications can be used from everywhere. They are always faster than a remote console session! You mean

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-21 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 21/11/2007, Tim Dobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How very .. classic .. of you to use a desktop application. My laptop is liberated without being weighed down by Outlook, online applications can be used from everywhere. They

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread David Greaves
Brian Butterworth wrote: On 20/11/2007, *David Greaves* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Crossland wrote: On 20/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 20/11/2007, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Crossland wrote: On 20/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You see, I just somehow knew that giving away content including music for free, forever, at the point

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread David Greaves
Jason Cartwright wrote: Of course, this won't happen (it be being popular, IMHO), because nobody cares what format they consume their content in - they just care that it works (which MP3 does). As proved by the BBC OGG trial years and years ago. You are right. It's true that people don't care.

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread David Greaves
Dave Crossland wrote: On 20/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You see, I just somehow knew that giving away content including music for free, forever, at the point of delivery, to anyone, regardless of whether they had

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You see, I just somehow knew that giving away content including music for free, forever, at the point of delivery, to anyone, regardless of whether they had paid their Licence Fee

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Jason Cartwright
Hum... why not setup a process to automatically parse the XML, download the MP3s, re-encode them as whatever format you want, then republish them with new XML. Sure its a bit naughty (OK, very naughty), but if it's popular you can post the log file analytics here and get some publicity for the

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20/11/2007, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 10:08 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You see, I just somehow knew that giving away content including music for free, forever, at the point of

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Jason Cartwright
Well, this is a discussion list for anyone keen to build interesting new prototypes or proofs of concept with BBC content, so I assumed some development knowledge. I'd suggest that the MP3s would make a good enough source - most of the content is speech-based, and designed to be consumed with

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Sean DALY
Greetings everyone, this is my first post. Jason Cartwright wrote: Of course, this won't happen (it be being popular, IMHO), because nobody cares what format they consume their content in - they just care that it works (which MP3 does). As proved by the BBC OGG trial years and years ago.

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20/11/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this is a discussion list for anyone keen to build interesting new prototypes or proofs of concept with BBC content, so I assumed some development knowledge. I have some, but I'm not able to do that project myself. Its a good idea

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 20/11/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/11/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this is a discussion list for anyone keen to build interesting new prototypes or proofs of concept with BBC content, so I assumed some development knowledge. I have

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20/11/2007, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Davetopia everything is black and white - popular = bad. In the real world, things are less clear cut. Popular has no place on the scale between good and bad. I'm glad to hear you are thinking about good and bad ;-) -- Regards,

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Richard Lockwood
Forget popularity, think about principle. It is worth noting that often these things turn around on the head of a pin. If we were having this discssion in 1985, someone would have pointed out that *no one ever got* *sacked for buying IBM. Everyone was happy with the popular 3270

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
And the BBC MUST be popular - otherwise no licence fee From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Lockwood Sent: 20 November 2007 11:56 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Barry Carlyon
/leedsaction.co.uk/luubackstage.com mobile: 07729048443 skype: barrycarlyon _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Reynolds-AMi Sent: 20 November 2007 12:04 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Brian Butterworth
:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Richard Lockwood *Sent:* 20 November 2007 11:56 *To:* backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk *Subject:* Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music Forget popularity, think about principle. It is worth noting that often

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
November 2007 12:18 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music Well the only reason I pay the license fee is so I can have a tv (and not get fined lots of money), the only bbc programme I watch is spooks, which I watch thru the iPlayer anyway So

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Brian Butterworth
: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music And the BBC MUST be popular - otherwise no licence fee -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Richard Lockwood *Sent:* 20 November 2007 11:56 *To:* backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk *Subject:* Re

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
i thought open systems were the answer not to lock things down From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 20 November 2007 12:39 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Barry Carlyon
mobile: 07729048443 skype: barrycarlyon _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Reynolds-AMi Sent: 20 November 2007 12:31 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music no Barry its not as the fee is about the signal

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music So if I didn't watch the bbc I would not have to pay the license? (cept I do for the iPlayer?_ In that case how do I prove I am not watching the bbc? I could do with an extra £120 in my pocket... -- Barry Carlyon Webmaster LSRfm.com

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Duncan Barnes
@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music So if I didn't watch the bbc I would not have to pay the license? (cept I do for the iPlayer?_ In that case how do I prove I am not watching the bbc? I could do with an extra £120 in my pocket… -- Barry Carlyon

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Brian Butterworth
, of course. -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Barry Carlyon *Sent:* 20 November 2007 12:18 *To:* backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk *Subject:* RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music Well the only reason I pay the license fee

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Brian Butterworth
@lists.bbc.co.uk *Subject:* RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music no Barry its not as the fee is about the signal you receive, not the kit you receive it on if you are watching BBC ONE on a mobile phone you are have to pay a TV licence -- *From

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Martin Belam
I'm more interested in Usability and Value For Money for Licence Fee payers. Does anyone have any kind of gauge of what percentage of portable music players will actually play files encoded in Vorbis out of the box without either a firmware upgrade or installing software on them? On

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
no it isn't its for any device you can recieve a TV signal on From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 20 November 2007 14:51 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Sean DALY
Martin Belam wrote: I'm more interested in Usability and Value For Money for Licence Fee payers. Does anyone have any kind of gauge of what percentage of portable music players will actually play files encoded in Vorbis out of the box without either a firmware upgrade or installing software on

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Carlos Roman
The Xiph wiki has the list: http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers The part about Chinese-made players being Vorbis-aware without documentation is interesting. I'm not aware of publicly available marketshare data for portable players though (that is, non-iPod). NPD in the US

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 20/11/2007, Carlos Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Xiph wiki has the list: http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers The part about Chinese-made players being Vorbis-aware without documentation is interesting. I'm not aware of publicly available marketshare data for

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Martin Belam
That is kind of the figures I was expecting. Just to be clear here, the way I see it is that if the BBC stands up and says we believe in libre not gratis, so we don't want anything to do with software or codecs that involve patents, pretty much at least 80%+ of the people who own portable music

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is kind of the figures I was expecting. Just to be clear here, the way I see it is that if the BBC stands up and says we believe in libre not gratis, so we don't want anything to do with software or codecs that involve patents, pretty

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-20 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 21/11/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is kind of the figures I was expecting. Just to be clear here, the way I see it is that if the BBC stands up and says we believe in libre not gratis, so we don't want anything

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Brian Butterworth
Barry. The PRS and MCPS are legally responsible in the UK, see: http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/playingbroadcastingonline/Pages/default.aspx On 18/11/2007, Barry Carlyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, Whilst working at my local student bar/restaurant, I was listening to

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Nick Reynolds-AMi
; backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music Hi Barry, I'll have to look at the exact details of the new podcast, but from a Student Radio point of view remember that there are very different rules regarding music use and royalties across commercial and public

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Matthew Cashmore
@lists.bbc.co.uk; backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music Hi Barry, I'll have to look at the exact details of the new podcast, but from a Student Radio point of view remember that there are very different rules regarding music use and royalties across

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19/11/2007, Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody has kindly corrected me off-list with regards to the 'trial' of podcasts the iplayer PVT gave us regulatory permission to do non drm audio downloads in April Awesome - now we just need the BBC to do non-patent encumbered

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave, If the BBC podcasts are first prepared as PCM-encoded WAV files before being translated to the site, providing OggVobis version shouldn't be a problem, surely? The technical problems around providing OggVorbis version are the

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Andy
On 19/11/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awesome - now we just need the BBC to do non-patent encumbered audio What? Software became patentable in the UK, damn I missed that one. Vorbis would be nice though, but MP3 is certainly better than the BBC's other favorite formats.

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Andy Leighton
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 04:30:46PM +, Dave Crossland wrote: On 19/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave, If the BBC podcasts are first prepared as PCM-encoded WAV files before being translated to the site, providing OggVobis version shouldn't be a problem, surely?

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 19/11/2007, Andy Leighton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 04:30:46PM +, Dave Crossland wrote: On 19/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave, If the BBC podcasts are first prepared as PCM-encoded WAV files before being translated to the

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19/11/2007, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/11/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awesome - now we just need the BBC to do non-patent encumbered audio What? Software became patentable in the UK, damn I missed that one. Software idea patents in some countries harm users of

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Michael Sparks
On Monday 19 November 2007 17:31:26 Andy wrote: What? Software became patentable in the UK, damn I missed that one. Yes, software gets patented in Europe, including the UK, and has been for many years. For software to be patentable it generally has to sit inside a system and affect something

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19/11/2007, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 November 2007 17:31:26 Andy wrote: What? Software became patentable in the UK, damn I missed that one. Yes, software gets patented in Europe, including the UK, and has been for many years. For software to be patentable it

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Martin Belam
You see, I just somehow knew that giving away content including music for free, forever, at the point of delivery, to anyone, regardless of whether they had paid their Licence Fee or lived in the UK, *still* wasn't going to be good enough for some. [throws up hands in despair and backs way from

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You see, I just somehow knew that giving away content including music for free, forever, at the point of delivery, to anyone, regardless of whether they had paid their Licence Fee or lived in the UK, *still* wasn't going to be good enough

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19/11/2007, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 November 2007 20:13:27 Dave Crossland wrote: Yes, its important to avoid the confusing term intellectual property and consider the laws that are grouped in that term on their own, since their purposes and details are

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 19/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You see, I just somehow knew that giving away content including music for free, forever, at the point of delivery, to anyone, regardless of whether they had paid their Licence Fee or lived in the UK, *still* wasn't going to be good enough

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-19 Thread Richard Lockwood
On Nov 19, 2007 10:08 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/11/2007, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You see, I just somehow knew that giving away content including music for free, forever, at the point of delivery, to anyone, regardless of whether they had paid their

[backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-18 Thread Barry Carlyon
Greetings all, Whilst working at my local student bar/restaurant, I was listening to radio 1, and happened to hear Chappers and Scott Mills' advert for Radio 1 Podcasts, and they mentioned the fact that there are some new podcasts coming soon, which will now include music. So does anyone

RE: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-18 Thread Matthew Cashmore
:020 8008 3959(02 83959) M:07711 913241(072 83959) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Barry Carlyon Sent: Sun 11/18/2007 20:48 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music Greetings