CD Review i-player not available?

[Pegleg]

Still not working, less than 24 hours left. What's happened to Steve Bowbrick's promise? I will take no pleasure in being proved right.

[Stephen Smith]

I have been able to listen (think this has been mentioned above) - I went into the programme via the schedule for last Saturday, and opted for the "listen in pop out player" option (by clicking the box to the right of the speaker symbol (in the frame where the presenter's photograph appears). Then in the pop out player, choose the low bandwith option (to the right below, again, the same photo). This worked for me this morning.

Record / CD review has been a Saturday morning fixture in the schedules for decades - but I was recording it for later listening (Video recorders (on audio setting) Minidisc etc) - with my wife and myself working full time and a family, setting aside 3 hours on a Saturday morning was impractical. So this week, I nearly got caught out relying in iPlayer!

I did go through the tortuous complaint procedure and I received a reply with a number of irrelevant response (rights issues, if its a live programme can cause delay, also iPlayer is awfullycomplicated, go and have a look at the FAQs (subtext - don't bother us again, just go and find out why you need to accept its not going to happen) culminating in :
"Your enquiry has informed a daily feedback report which is available to the team within the BBC Future Media division who are responsible for maintaining the BBC iPlayer service. They will seek to replicate the fault and action a resolution where possible".

Fairly typical - doesn't address the complaint, makes irrelevant responses in an attempt to mollify, but really it is just conveying the arrogance of the organisation. And of course one side effect is to deter future complaints (whats the point of spending that amount of time?) which conveniently helps to keep the stats for complaints low

[johnb]

Although it is no use to anyone now, earlier this morning I discovered that there was a valid 320 kbps wma stream for last weeks CDR!

Early in the morning I thought I would quickly see whether my Squeezebox Touch/LMS could play last week's programme and was surprised to find that, after a false start, it could. (I hadn't tried previously because I knew that the PC iPlayer didn't work for the programme.) I investigated and discovered that it was the wma stream - Triode's iPlayer plugin first attempts to play the AAC stream, then mp3, then WMA.

As I didn't have time to listen to the wma 320 kbps version before the 7 day deadline expired I took the liberty of snatching a copy for later.

[Pegleg]

Although it is no use to anyone now, earlier this morning I discovered that there was a valid 320 kbps wma stream for last weeks CDR!

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As I didn't have time to listen to the wma 320 kbps version before the 7 day deadline expired I took the liberty of snatching a copy for later.

I tried that, but neither LMS nor get-iplayer would play/download the wma version. Perhaps I was just having another bad day, one of many. I gave in and listened to the low quality mono version. Keeping stuff beyond 7 days, beware the knock on the door ...

It seems to me if the flash encoding goes wrong the chances of a correction are slim.

[johnb]

Were you using Triode's third party iPlayer plugin with LMS?

[Pegleg]

Yes, but on a 64bit Linux desktop with local squeezelite. I probably need to have a look the config.