Comments on: Major BBC streaming changes affecting BBC Radio Widget

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:50:45 +0000

Just one other issue – the schedules no longer seem to work – page not found (at least on Radio 4 and 5).

Keep up the excellent work!

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:08:50 +0000

still having trouble done what you blog said got it working but it some times freezes and when it does cannot shut down. have to shut down the mac and re start.

By: Chatchalee

Chatchalee — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:33:38 +0000

Already upgraded, and love it. Listening in Thailand, I’d think that streaming is better with 4.11. Thanks for this brilliant piece of thing.

By: Hawkman

Hawkman — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:38:35 +0000

Despite how things looked, and what the iPlayer help pages said, RealPlayer has had a stay of execution from Auntie – for national stations, at least. Local and regional stations are not available any more as RealPlayer streams. Most have been replaced by a "Sorry, no longer available" audio message, but one or two are missing completely, and it's these which can cause the undismissable dialogs and beachballs with RealPlayer plugin. I strongly recommend that everyone upgrades to the latest version, as Flash is now used by default. (RealPlayer is still available for some stations, but you have to choose to use it by option-clicking the widget's "i" button.) So, in short, steve, the BBC are in the process of abandoning RealPlayer. I'd guess they just found supporting several formats to be too much trouble, and chose to dump one. Flash is a good choice for their website, but it's not very flexible (as it's deployed by the BBC, anyway) for use in other contexts, like a Dashboard widget. Still, Mac users have never really been their number one priority, and the use of standard or open formats even less so.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:18:46 +0000

Love and use your widget.
Has the Beeb abandoned RealPlayer live?
What about ?