For the past two days or so have not been getting - or getting extremely poor streaming - on the i-player for Radios 3 & 4. OK for World Service, Is there a problem? Should mention this seems to apply for the live stream only - any listen again programme seems to work OK. I have also coincidentally changed my Internet provider and would like to know where the problem lies.
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Just now tried the Listen Live stream - OK for R4, 2 and 1 but nothing being streamed for R3 until fifth attempt when it finally connected. Seems problem their end not yours. -
i'm having the same problems with the listen live streams.in fact i've resorted to emailing the bbc(again) but i don 't expect an answer.surely someone their end monitors these steams?i do notice however that all the bbc streams on my logitech squeezebox touch are showing as aac for all stations so are they doing something differently and are we getting the same 320 aac stream that we normally get via the listening live stream?Comment
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Hey everyone! Don't forget you can connect to R3HD320 via iTunes! It's never failed me yet, including tonight when tuning in for the LPO/Alsop concert (great Martinu 6 performance!), when the R3 homepage live stream refused to work.
Go to iTunes, and choose:
Radio>Classical>BBC Radio 3 High.
(and don't forget to press play...)Comment
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I shall have to listen to the LPO/Alsop Concert again. The break-up in the listen live/iPlayer was dire. I hope it was a temporary blip. It could not have been my computer as the recording kept skipping half bars. One's computer cannot make broadcasts go faster can they? Despite the cock-ups the Martinu and Dvorak sounded terrific. I do not much like the Liszt concerti but I cannot not enjoy performances played with the panache of Stephen Hough. iPlayer better be working for Dvorak's The Jacobin tomorrow afternoon or Roger Wright will get a rude email.Comment
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Didn't you try iTunes, Chris? I've found it very reliable for this.Originally posted by Chris Newman View PostComment
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Perhaps it would be a good idea (now don't answer too quickly!Originally posted by Chris Newman View Post
) to have a special 'Messages for Roger' board? A place where important issues could be easily available and found without ploughing through acres of verbiage. And the worst would be that no one at R3 read it.
Anyway - welcome, diddy. There are Squeezebox Touch people around - perhaps they'll reply to your question.
jlw - yes, that way into R3 live stream is good. PC users who refuse all Apple products miss out, in my view.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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the itunes route is working perfectly for me as well! i'm not a techie so can't for the life of me understand why it doesn 't work on my internet radios.in fact one of them,a roberts,won't play any of the bbc streams without constantly buffering/reconnecting. i'm listening on the touch to supposedly the radio 3 (london) stream which it says is 320kb aac because the listen live HD stream is silent.
it's all very confusing.Comment
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It was a bit late by the time I read your message, Jayne. Stephen H was half way through the 2nd Liszt PC. I had turned to my steam radio by then but the speakers are not very good. When I get a few minutes I shall try to install iTunes. It's coffee break time ATM.Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostComment
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BEWARE all sorts of commercial stuff comes with iTunes! and incessant updates and store connections and monitoring .... not a light decision!According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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Exactly! Why should we have to install something we don't need just to get something that the BBC should be providing in useable form? (I tried the normal R3 stream just now, and there were frequent drop-outs.)Comment
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Absolutely no reason at all (it tends to come ready installed with Macs) other than that the BBC sometimes isn't doing what it ought to do and you then have an alternative. Of course, it won't be an alternative if you have a PC and don't want to install iTunes - though many PC users do.Originally posted by Don Petter View PostIt 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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I ask the same question about Adobe Flash (and that's a truly evil bit of softwareOriginally posted by Don Petter View Post
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As for the non-Flash alternative; I thought iTunes was just a convenient way for people with a Mac or Windows PCs to access the BBC's AAC streams, which otherwise could be accessed directly by any player complying with the AAC standard.
That said, I'm currently listening to the Lunchtime Concert live via the Flash-based iPlayer without any problems, and did the same yesterday and the day before for Afternoon on 3.Comment
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the HD AAC feed is now playing fine on my windows pc(flash based?) but still no luck on the squeezebox touch,and as others have posted, it plays fine through itunes.
correction:the feed on the pc has started stuttering!Comment
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Just trying The Jacobin on HD via the R3 site. Pretty good, but still getting a brief 'blip' of interruption every minute or so.Comment
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