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From: Bruce Stephens on 18 Jul 2005 05:06 Robert Marshall <spam(a)chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Bruce Stephens wrote: [...] >> You're right. That's weird. I wonder if they've done the Radio 3 >> ones in a special IE-only form? The "Listen again" pages they've >> got don't appear to allow me to listen again. > > I find http://dave.org.uk/streams/ pretty useful as a source of the > true urls. Cool. I still find it odd that the Radio 3 pages are similar-but-different to the Radio 4 and BBC 7 pages, in that the latter actually have links to things that allow one to listen to the programs and the Radio 3 pages appear not to. I'll have to look next time I boot into Windows, and see if they look the same in IE. [...]
From: Stephen Patterson on 18 Jul 2005 05:23 On 14 Jul 2005 16:19:41 GMT, bartender(a)beer.sna.cx wrote: > I like listening to old BBC radio comedy shows, eg. Steptoe, > but I'd like to record these to tape. How can I capture > the audio on a Debian Linux system ? If you're just looking at recording to tape, you can connect a lead from one of the output sockets on your soundcard to the microphone or aux socket on your tape recorder/stereo. If you can hear sound through the stereo, you can tape it. You'll probably need to adjust the PC volume a bit to record at a decent level. -- Stephen Patterson steve(a)patter.mine.nu http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: stephenpatterson893(a)hotmail.com "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien
From: Jonathan Buzzard on 18 Jul 2005 06:10 On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:19:41 +0000, bartender wrote: > Paul Sherwin <paulSPAM(a)paulsherwin.co.uk> wrote: > >>>Why on earth did they not go for streaming MP3? >> >> It's to do with copyright issues. They went for RealAudio because it >> makes it difficult for people to store the output as a file for later >> listening, burning onto a CD etc. I agree it's a pain in the bum >> though. > > How can one record BBC recordings, from their website ? > > I like listening to old BBC radio comedy shows, eg. Steptoe, > but I'd like to record these to tape. How can I capture > the audio on a Debian Linux system ? I would only add that you will get *much* better results getting a Freeview box with a USB interface and recording the broadcast MP2 stream. I have been doing that now almost since the start of BBC7, and have a large archive of material. I believe there are some satellite systems that would work now that the BBC broadcasts free to air on the satellite system. You get BBC7 in 160kbps MP2 in stereo which beats the hell out of the direct streaming and listen again archives. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1661-832195
From: Whiskers on 18 Jul 2005 09:07 On 2005-07-18, Bruce Stephens <bruce+usenet(a)cenderis.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Robert Marshall <spam(a)chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > >> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Bruce Stephens wrote: > > [...] > >>> You're right. That's weird. I wonder if they've done the Radio 3 >>> ones in a special IE-only form? The "Listen again" pages they've >>> got don't appear to allow me to listen again. >> >> I find http://dave.org.uk/streams/ pretty useful as a source of the >> true urls. > > Cool. I still find it odd that the Radio 3 pages are > similar-but-different to the Radio 4 and BBC 7 pages, in that the > latter actually have links to things that allow one to listen to the > programs and the Radio 3 pages appear not to. I'll have to look next > time I boot into Windows, and see if they look the same in IE. > > [...] Looks as though there isn't a single group of web-techies in the BBC doing all the design and interfaces across all the web sites. I think the different radio and TV channels like to do their own thing. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~
From: Whiskers on 18 Jul 2005 09:22
On 2005-07-18, Robert Marshall <spam(a)chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Bruce Stephens wrote: > >> Whiskers <catwheezel(a)operamail.com> writes: >> >> [...] >> >>> What I just described, worked for a Radio 4 programme on Sunday >>> ('Just a Minute'). When I tried to listen to a Radio 3 programme, >>> not only does the Real Player thing from the BBC not work at all >>> (no sound, and no 'use external player' button), but there seems to >>> be no .ram file involved and I can't see how to discover the true >>> stream URL. >> >> You're right. That's weird. I wonder if they've done the Radio 3 >> ones in a special IE-only form? The "Listen again" pages they've >> got don't appear to allow me to listen again. >> >> [...] > > I find http://dave.org.uk/streams/ pretty useful as a source of the true urls. > > I successfully recorded something from listen again on Radio 3 last > week - though that page does say the BBC is annoyed by some of his > links > > Robert That is what I call a /great/ link :)) I'm apparently getting Saturday's 'The Early Music Show' as I type; looks as though I might be able to move on from using the VCR to record off the Freeview digibox after all :)) -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~ |