I'm the webmaster of www.iplayerconverter.co.uk, which provides easy to use
RealAudio links for iPlayer radio content based on the feeds generously made
available by the Beeb - specifically the /programmes and Audio on Demand XML
feeds.
I've noticed that some of the BBC Local Radio stations are
Bit of a geeky query this one, so sorry in advance if it all gets a bit
technical.
I've noticed since the Local Radio changes to iplayer a couple of weeks ago
that the mediaselector XML that I (and several other sites) use to get links
to Real Audio content that is available on iplayer has
You never know how technical to go before people start falling asleep at
their desks..
The latter idea (a separate feed) would probably be easier to implement in
the short term - perhaps an international version of the mediaselector with
a similar URL pattern to the current one
Ray,
I've done similar work myself for www.iplayerconverter.co.uk (including a
Now and Next Google Gadget I really must get round to updating). I use the
Audio on Demand feeds, which you can find at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/availability/ station name .xml
From that you can get a title,
That's a useful set of links - thanks! I'd looked at feeds.bbc.co.uk a while
back for my purposes, but found a slight problem in that there's no link to
the mediaselector, so you'd have to parse the id tag to get the PID
(hoping the format of the tag doesn't change!) in order to get RealAudio
This is probably as good a place as any to report this - the Audio on Demand
XML feeds (e.g http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/availability/radio4.xml ) seem
to be broken. They don't appear to have updated since the 12th March.
Hopefully it's just a case of a simple spot of percussive maintenance on
Can someone from the Beeb clarify that the Windows streams will be *instead*
of Real, as the implication of that article (and also a number of blog
comments from James Cridland in the past) was that Windows Media streams
would be in *addition* to the existing streams. From what I understand one
of
So a fair summary for what's happening with radio would be as follows:
Local Radio - changing from Real to WMA for the low bitrate option
Network Radio - staying as is, although presumably with WMA being added
eventually as per previous comments on BBC blogs
World Service - staying as is, but
I hadn't seen that page before - very handy.
Mind you, I wonder how accurate it is, considering it has RealAudio listed
as a supported format for local radio (which we now know is being phased
out) and it's got Windows Media as a supported format for Listen Again on
network radio (when I didn't
When I was developing iplayerconverter a couple of years ago I was basically
told the following:
1. You must have the phrase supported by backstage.bbc.co.uk somewhere,
which should link to the Backstage TCs page (not sure how that would apply
for a mobile app - your idea of putting it on the
Catching up on my email, I notice the forthcoming closure of Backstage. Does
any know what will happen to projects licenced under the 'Backstage
Licence'. Can we continue to run our sites and/or prototypes under the old
terms (which are rather more flexible than the standard BBC syndication
TCs)
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