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From: Peter James on 3 Nov 2009 04:09
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

> Peter James <pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > A month or so ago, I downloaded a small program from Radio 4 called
> > r4.ram that enabled me to play R4 as when I wished. Now it no longer
> > works, and I'm not able to find it on the BBC site.
> > Can anyone advise. thanks,
>
> The BBC are no longer using Real Player streams.
>
> You might find this Dashboard widget useful:
>
> <http://www.phantomgorilla.com/widgets/bbcradio/>
>
> I use it to stream BBC Radio Scotland and it works a treat. Recently
> updated to cope with tghe change from Real to Flash.
>
> Jim

Thank you, that works a treat. Very grateful.
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From: Jim on 3 Nov 2009 04:17
On 2009-11-03, Peter James <pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > A month or so ago, I downloaded a small program from Radio 4 called
>> > r4.ram that enabled me to play R4 as when I wished. Now it no longer
>> > works, and I'm not able to find it on the BBC site.
>> > Can anyone advise. thanks,
>>
>> The BBC are no longer using Real Player streams.
>>
>> You might find this Dashboard widget useful:
>>
>> <http://www.phantomgorilla.com/widgets/bbcradio/>
>>
>> I use it to stream BBC Radio Scotland and it works a treat. Recently
>> updated to cope with tghe change from Real to Flash.
>
> Thank you, that works a treat. Very grateful.

No worries. Glad it helped.

Jim
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From: Rowland McDonnell on 3 Nov 2009 19:56
Peter James <pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

> A month or so ago, I downloaded a small program from Radio 4 called
> r4.ram that enabled me to play R4 as when I wished. Now it no longer
> works, and I'm not able to find it on the BBC site.
> Can anyone advise. thanks,

You're fixed, but just for information:

That wasn't a program you downloaded, it was like a link to a Webpage,
but a link to the address of an audio stream rather than a Webpage.

And BBC have dropped the RealPlayer streams. Damn.

Rowland.

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