On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:06 AM, George MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2008/7/13 Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Apologies, I seemed to have pasted the address wrong in my last reply. >> > The correct address for Radio 2 is >> > mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/radio2_nb_e1s1 >> > >> >> Thank you so much, Jason. >> >> I now have Radio 2 in Rhythmbox and am listening to it right now :) > > Has anyone else noticed the reduction in quality of the sound from the BBC? I > have been listening to 6Music for ages now using the RealPlayer plug-in in > Firefox and the sound was great. Since the IPlayer revamp the quality of the > sound is abysmal, it's very tinny and weak and is the same for all the > stations. > > >
Sorry about the late response, but I must agree, the sound quality is very sub-standard. When using RealPlayer it was much better, and you could pause/rewind live radio (at least with the latest realplayer10 in Linux) I think the answer may be somewhere here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/under_the_iplayer_hood_for_rad.shtml this makes me mad! <quote> We're doing this because we know online radio is particularly useful in the office, and chances are that Windows Media is automatically installed on most computers</quote> - thanks for thinking about the rest of us! <rant over> At the moment, I'm listening through Rhythmbox and I get a strange thing when I connect, it buffers and plays for about 2 seconds, then re-buffers and plays continually. the first time it plays the sounds quality sounds "better" than the second time... --Michael _________________________________ Michael Fletcher Visit my website here - http://www.mgfletcher.com/blog Interested in Linux? Then visit - http://www.ilovemylinux.com -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
