Michael Chare asked on here a few weeks ago about whether it was 
possible to receive the BBC's AAC Internet radio streams on any 
Wi-Fi-Internet radio devices, so I thought some of you might be 
interested to know they are now available on the Squeezebox if you 
install the Squeezebox's iPlayer plug-in.

Some of the streams have been verified as being e.g. 128 kbps AAC 
where appropriate, so I think it's pretty certain that they're the 
same streams that are available via the iPlayer website (I'm certainly 
not aware of the BBC launching any non-Flash-based AAC radio streams).

Steve

I'm totally confused really. When I spoke to an I player guy at the BBC to 
find out why the Iplayer was made with flash which is very hard to use for 
blind users, he said in fact the stram was windows media, and  the container 
for the controls was flash.

I begin to wonder if these people are just  bullshitting to get rid of 
questions that are beyond their scope.

Brian

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"DAB sounds worse than FM"  wrote in message 
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> Michael Chare asked on here a few weeks ago about whether it was possible 
> to receive the BBC's AAC Internet radio streams on any Wi-Fi-Internet 
> radio devices, so I thought some of you might be interested to know they 
> are now available on the Squeezebox if you install the Squeezebox's 
> iPlayer plug-in.
>
> Some of the streams have been verified as being e.g. 128 kbps AAC where 
> appropriate, so I think it's pretty certain that they're the same streams 
> that are available via the iPlayer website (I'm certainly not aware of the 
> BBC launching any non-Flash-based AAC radio streams).
>
> Steve
>

DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
> Michael Chare asked on here a few weeks ago about whether it was 
> possible to receive the BBC's AAC Internet radio streams on any 
> Wi-Fi-Internet radio devices, so I thought some of you might be 
> interested to know they are now available on the Squeezebox if you 
> install the Squeezebox's iPlayer plug-in.

Yes, that works quite well for me.

However much I like my Squeezebox system, it's admittedly overkill just 
for an internet radio. Better off with a cheaper second-hand laptop and 
a decent sound 'card'.

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In article <blwIm.1922$Ym4.931@text.news.virginmedia.com>, Brian Gaff
 wrote:
> I'm totally confused really. When I spoke to an I player guy at the BBC
> to find out why the Iplayer was made with flash which is very hard to
> use for blind users, he said in fact the stram was windows media, and 
> the container for the controls was flash.

When did your "iPlayer guy" say that? Perhaps it was before they'd changed
to aac.

Slainte,

Jim

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No it was last week.

Brian

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"Jim Lesurf"  wrote in message 
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> In article <blwIm.1922$Ym4.931@text.news.virginmedia.com>, Brian Gaff
>  wrote:
>> I'm totally confused really. When I spoke to an I player guy at the BBC
>> to find out why the Iplayer was made with flash which is very hard to
>> use for blind users, he said in fact the stram was windows media, and
>> the container for the controls was flash.
>
> When did your "iPlayer guy" say that? Perhaps it was before they'd changed
> to aac.
>
> Slainte,
>
> Jim
>
> -- 
> Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
> Electronics 
> http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm
> Armstrong Audio  http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
> Audio Misc  http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html
>

"Brian Gaff"  wrote in message 
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> No it was last week.


Then he didn't know what he was talking about, because the iPlayer 
radio streams have been using AAC since June/July, and the AAC streams 
were being tested from about February.

Steve

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>
>
> "Jim Lesurf"  wrote in message 
> news:50b55b8335noise@audiomisc.co.uk...
>> In article <blwIm.1922$Ym4.931@text.news.virginmedia.com>, Brian 
>> Gaff
>>  wrote:
>>> I'm totally confused really. When I spoke to an I player guy at 
>>> the BBC
>>> to find out why the Iplayer was made with flash which is very hard 
>>> to
>>> use for blind users, he said in fact the stram was windows media, 
>>> and
>>> the container for the controls was flash.
>>
>> When did your "iPlayer guy" say that? Perhaps it was before they'd 
>> changed
>> to aac.
>>
>> Slainte,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> -- 
>> Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email 
>> me.
>> Electronics 
>> http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm
>> Armstrong Audio 
>> http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
>> Audio Misc  http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

"DAB sounds worse than FM"  wrote in message 
news:7lelrmF3dq4edU1@mid.individual.net...
> Michael Chare asked on here a few weeks ago about whether it was possible 
> to receive the BBC's AAC Internet radio streams on any Wi-Fi-Internet 
> radio devices, so I thought some of you might be interested to know they 
> are now available on the Squeezebox if you install the Squeezebox's 
> iPlayer plug-in.
>
> Some of the streams have been verified as being e.g. 128 kbps AAC where 
> appropriate, so I think it's pretty certain that they're the same streams 
> that are available via the iPlayer website (I'm certainly not aware of the 
> BBC launching any non-Flash-based AAC radio streams).
>

Thank you.  In the meantime I have found the Dutch Avro internet stations 
which use 256kbps MP3 format.

It's a pity more internet radio stations don't offer this quality, most of 
them appear to have the same attitude to quality as UK Dab radio stations.

If the BBC can launch the iPlayer on Freesat  receivers, which I am probably 
will not be able to receive because of the limited of my broadband 
connection,
they could increase the bandwidth of their internet radio stations which I 
can receive.


-- 
Michael Chare