Re: [Sheflug] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

[Seb James <seb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:26 +0000, David Willington wrote:
> >> I'm sure a lot of Linux users just don't bother going to the BBC site
> >> because they know they won't get service.
> 
> I listen to radio 3 and 4 as well as podcasts with Amarok on Ubuntu,
> generally with no problem, for several hours a day. The only thing I can't
> do is use listen again. I get no sound at all and I've no idea why,
> although in the past I've used realplayer and had no problem. Radio 4 was
> down to Linux users for a few days a while ago and it was a fault at their
> end (at least that's what they told me, and it came back one day) but I
> don't understand why something they've done alters whether or not a linux
> user can access the feeds.

Hi David,

I wrote a script to record listen again programs to ogg files. The key
thing is to have the RealAudio codecs installed, along with mplayer and
oggenc or lame (depending on whether you want mp3s or oggs).

More info here:

http://www.esfnet.co.uk/index.php?page=Listen_Again

regards,

Seb James


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