James Cridland also responded to my query about direct access to the
higher quality streams - and the answer was:
we will have other streams primarily for internet radio devices; and
we will ensure that these are better quality than currently
available.
I suspect that it will require some an
Thanks for taking the time to fill us in on here. It looks like the full
posting is now up at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/under_the_iplayer_hood_for_rad.shtml.
I'd have to say I'm a bit of a heathen and I don't listen to much
classical music, but I think its a nice touch that
robroe wrote:
Thanks for taking the time to fill us in on here. It looks like the full
posting is now up at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/under_the_iplayer_hood_for_rad.shtml.
I'd have to say I'm a bit of a heathen and I don't listen to much
classical music, but I think its a
Part of a reply made by james in response to a user comment in his blog
We're using the AAC family term because we wish to offer a range of
audio formats - some more suited to aacPlus, some more suited to AAC.
Once these additional formats are available, we will be publishing
details of
Hi James,
Thanks for taking the time to post here.
Hopefully you are looking at high bitrate streams for streaming devices
such as the squeezebox, as most people here will have a better audio set
up linked to their squeezebox than to their PC and will do most of their
listening that way. (And
Let's hope that for once the engineering teams win out over the
marketing dweebs at the BBC and the 'unbranded' feeds are kept going. I
don't want to use the iPlayer with it's undocumented P2P 'features'.
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amcluesent
Another blog entry but no details except in a comment to sort of
reassurance that wifi devices will be OK but details later.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/06/bbc_iplayer_20_sneak_preview.html
There seems to be nothing in the blogs about whether the new features
and better quality
They have also said that if it works now it will continue to work.
So although non-UK listeners using the RealAudio streams might not
benefit from the higher bitrates, they won't loose their radio stream
either.
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funkstar
Thanks for your comments. There'll be a full posting on the BBC Radio
Labs blog later today, but to answer some points here (for national
radio only):
- The Register's wrong; the Flash streams are not just 128k (indeed,
some's even higher). This is on-demand only for now; live soon.
- There are
Interesting article here:
http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.3530.3
The bit that interests me is this part:
The quality of the radio programmes will see an improvement.
The sound quality with the BBC's Real Audio feed has been a constant
issue for me.
What format is the iPlayer
These BBC blog entries also add some insight especially as one mention
the need to continue support for non website devices such as
squeezebox.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/03/streaming_radio_online_your_co_1.shtml
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