Goodbye iPlayer ?

[Bryn]

I discovered earlier on today that I could access BBC TV programmes on the I-Player so the problems I have appear to be with radio.

What sort of device are you trying to access iPlayer radio from?

[Lat-Literal]

What sort of device are you trying to access iPlayer radio from?

A laptop computer.

[Bryn]

A laptop computer.

Which operating system and browser? I am using Windows 10 1809 with Firefox and have no problem access BBC Radio and tv via te iPlayer.

[Lat-Literal]

Which operating system and browser? I am using Windows 10 1809 with Firefox and have no problem access BBC Radio and tv via te iPlayer.

It probably is Windows 10.

I have this built in Bing thing that I use for some sites and then I have to work my way around it for most things so as to use Google.

It isn't even especially clear to me whether I use Google Chrome.

The old computers......they were much more user friendly...….98% of what is provided now seems totally irrelevant.

[Bryn]

I hate Bing. I would recommend you go to your browser and change your default search engine to something other than Bing, say, Google, Yahoo or DuckDuckGo. I would also avoid Edge as the default browser in favour of Firefox, Chrome or Opera.

[LMcD]

Which operating system and browser? I am using Windows 10 1809 with Firefox and have no problem access BBC Radio and tv via te iPlayer.

I am using Windows 10 1809 with Google Chrome and have no problem.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I am using Windows 10 1809 with Google Chrome and have no problem.

Windows 7 and Google Chrome here, and no problems either.

[french frank]

Currently this is as user friendly as an alligator. I can't access I-Player on Google or Bing and I haven't heard any information about the Sounds App. You go to the Sounds page. It tells you to register so you register. Then it says you have already registered but have you forgotten your password? Then you say yes and get an e-mail to say change your password so you change it and then try to log in. Then it brings you into a load of triviality - news, sport etc - under the banner of Sounds and there is still no more access to programmes. Atrocious.

What exactly is going on please?

I don't understand this at all. What exactly are you trying to access on iPlayer/Sounds, Lat? All the radio stations are easy enough to find from the Sounds Homepage (I don't listen now, but googled BBC Sounds radio). That takes you to any of the live programmes on all stations, from where you can switch to today's schedule (which you can also get from the forum sidebar link). From there you can either select a programme for information, or go to the week's schedule and choose from there; or go to the Calendar and choose from whichever day in the past you want, up to the current month. Why are you needing to find things via a search engine?

Otherwise, what ferney said in #11.

[Lat-Literal]

I don't understand this at all. What exactly are you trying to access on iPlayer/Sounds, Lat? All the radio stations are easy enough to find from the Sounds Homepage (I don't listen now, but googled BBC Sounds radio). That takes you to any of the live programmes on all stations, from where you can switch to today's schedule (which you can also get from the forum sidebar link). From there you can either select a programme for information, or go to the week's schedule and choose from there; or go to the Calendar and choose from whichever day in the past you want, up to the current month. Why are you needing to find things via a search engine?

Otherwise, what ferney said in #11.

My example was this one where it takes you to the I-Player page, you click the arrow which is beside Listen Again and then the Sounds page comes up. But today it is different. I am immediately getting a Sounds page which says "Puzzle Panel - Episode 2" on which there is a similar arrow and I can obtain the programme. Yesterday and the day before the Sounds home page was coming up; not any programme page. I am not sure why it has changed (for the better). Perhaps it was me. I am, though, doing the same things so I think it was them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069ytl1

[Bryn]

My specific example was this one where it takes you to the I-Player page, you click the arrow which is beside Listen Again and then the Sounds page comes up.

But today it is different. I am immediately getting a Sounds page which says "Puzzle Panel - Episode 2" on which there is a similar arrow and I can obtain the programme. Yesterday and the day before the Sounds home page was coming up instead of any programme page.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069ytl1

On the page you link to, click on "More", then "Radio", then "Schedules", then the station/channel you want. Convoluted, I know, but you get there.

[Lat-Literal]

On the page you link to, click on "More", then "Radio", then "Schedules", then the station/channel you want. Convoluted, I know, but you get there.

Thank you Bryn. .#

I will try to do that the next time,it doesn't work properly.

Your previous post - I noted it but I have tried so many times to change the default search engine to, say, Google but it always reverts to Bing as the computer's preferred option.

[french frank]

I have tried so many times to change the default search engine to, say, Google but it always reverts to Bing as the computer's preferred option.

This where you're ahead of me What have search engines got to do with it? If you've bookmarked the Sounds homepage you have your starting place for all stations and all programmes, Live and On Demand

[LMcD]

Thank you Bryn. .#

I will try to do that the next time,it doesn't work properly.

Your previous post - I noted it but I have tried so many times to change the default search engine to, say, Google but it always reverts to Bing as the computer's preferred option.

That's interesting - I gave up trying to change my default search engine TO Edge (which is Bing, isn't it?) but I'm now happy with Google Chrome.

[Bryn]

That's interesting - I gave up trying to change my default search engine TO Edge (which is Bing, isn't it?) but I'm now happy with Google Chrome.

No, Edge is a browser, though I think it defaults to Bing as its search engine.

[Lat-Literal]

This where you're ahead of me What have search engines got to do with it? If you've bookmarked the Sounds homepage you have your starting place for all stations and all programmes, Live and On Demand

I'm not sure that I am that far ahead of you, if at all.

From what I know of us, that seems counter-intuitive.

I am open to your suggestion on bookmarks on which in my time I have had moderate success but that was with Dell. Now I'm not with Dell which if it were a car would be a Ford. There are Ford people and non Ford people. Whether I liked it or not - aesthetically it was a mixed affair - it turned out I was a Ford man. So I really should have bought another Dell. With the current contraption, bookmarks get wrapped around Bing or Google depending on the devices whim. As for other essentials like, erm. "programme manager" it is included alphabetically in a list of masses of things which appear to be about gaming. Or the latest news from an unknown source which makes The Sun appear like the BBC World Service.