Criminal daughter sitting to my left amidst the Paul Simon BBC4 fest informs me it is http://Www.nerdoftheherd.com/tools/radiodld/. Works like a charm although I'm not sure it will be up to Bryn' s demanding technical standards......
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Thanks! The police have been informedOriginally posted by antongould View Post
I've been catching some of the BBC4 fest too. Didn't Art Garfunkel have a truly extraordinary voice when he was young?
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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He did indeed - young Mr. Simon doesn't have a bad voice at 70........Comment
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Since version 0.22 is said to grab the aac files without re-encoding, the technical quality should be as high as is possible, especially if the HD Sound version is accessed. By the way, I hear that software exists which can download from the on demand aspect of the iPlayer in a fraction of the time taken by the broadcast itself.Originally posted by antongould View Post
The Beeb does appear to add greater protection to some of its programmes on the iPlayer. The recent The Mystery of Edwin Drood, for instance, has been found to present problems.Comment
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I don't know of any. Certainly anton's doesn't... "Radio Downloader is supported on Windows 7, Vista and XP'Originally posted by Bryn View Post
But iTunes converts mp2s to mp3s at the touch of a button in the 'Advanced' menu. The SD card in my Pure DAB radio has mp2s - to get a programme I record off-air onto my iPod, I slot the SD card into the computer using a USB converter thingy, drag and drop the mp2 into iTunes, convert it to mp3, et voilà...Originally posted by Bryn View Post
Love the use of the passive hereOriginally posted by Bryn View Post ..... "has been found".... not by you of course... 
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Converting mp2 to mp3 suggests re-encoding, which means loss of definition. The encoding regimes of mp2 and mp3 are quite different. The Archos device decodes mp2s directly to PCM with no such loss of audio quality.Originally posted by Caliban View PostI don't know of any. Certainly anton's doesn't... "Radio Downloader is supported on Windows 7, Vista and XP'
But iTunes converts mp2s to mp3s at the touch of a button in the 'Advanced' menu. The SD card in my Pure DAB radio has mp2s - to get a programme I record off-air onto my iPod, I slot the SD card into the computer using a USB converter thingy, drag and drop the mp2 into iTunes, convert it to mp3, et voilà...
Love the use of the passive here ..... "has been found".... not by you of course...
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I've never noticed it on the iPod... No doubt you are right though.Originally posted by Bryn View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Today's programme sounds good. It features Patrick Hadley's complete symphonic ballad "The trees so high" as well as piano music by Alan Rawsthorne, orchestral works by Britten, Bax, Holst, Delius and Hamish MacCunn, some songs by Ivor Gurney, chamber music by Rebecca Clarke and ending with Constant Lamberts ballet score "Prize Fight". Unless I'm wrong Hadley has connections with all of them except Holst and Clarke. Certainly some unknown (to me) pieces.Comment
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I love this piece. I got to know it as it is the companion to Finzi's "Intimations of Immortality" on a gorgeous Lyrita album conducted by your pal Vernon Handleyhttp://www.lyrita.co.uk/cgi-bin/lyrita_build.pl?filename=SRCD0238.txt I've listened to it I don't know how many times in the car when driving in the countrysideOriginally posted by Anna View Post
Heffer may come across as a bit of an old Bufton-Tufton but there is real substance to his contributions to R3 (his series of The Essay on British war films likewise)"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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And I wonder why that should be a problem, when 'Hi! Wow! Awesome!' &c. à la Twitter and Facebook isn't?Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Can't stand (as in 'HATE'
prejudice, prejudice 
) Heffer on the EU, but if he knows his music (whatever his choice) and can present it intelligently ...
Bof! I might even give it a spin (even though 'British music' is not my thing, as a concept ).
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Quite! It isn't a problem - rather 'olde-worlde' and endearing, if anything...Originally posted by french frank View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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IMO, he does, and can. (Sorry to heat that you're missing out on the many pleasures of British music)Originally posted by french frank View Post
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I wouldn't say British music is my thing either but I did enjoy last week, particularly the Warlock so I think frenchie should give it a whirl and I'm looking foward to the Hadley and the Lambert. I notice that The Essay broadcasts by him on British War Films as recommended by you and Caliban are still available, I intend to listen to these tomorrow.Originally posted by Norfolk Born View PostIMO, he does, and can. (Sorry to heat that you're missing out on the many pleasures of British music)Comment
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Well listening right now to Holst's orchestral version for the first time (which seems to have a whole extra section added to the wind band version I have) I hope you and FF are experiencing modifications in your respective views on British music by this series. There's so much to spend a lifetime missing!Originally posted by Anna View Post
Excellent selections by the Hefferlump.Comment
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Another excellent programme, I thought. Works new to me included the Patrick Hadley, the Rawsthorne piano pieces and the Constant Lambert.Comment
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