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Re: listening to BBC



On Saturday 19 April 2008 06:50:02 am Richard Lyons wrote:
> I suppose the BBC has changed its codec or something.  I used to be able
> to play "Listen Again" programmes on the BBC site with their BBC Radio
> Player, which opened in a separate Firefox/Iceweasel window.  Now it
> just complains about a missing codec called, oddly, "cook".  Is
> there a debian package for this?  Or if not is there some other way to
> hear the BBC in debian?

I've found the quality of their stream to be obnoxiously low and their website 
to be an utter mess... while not a Debian solution or by any means a 
universal one (BBC having axed the universal option a couple years ago when 
they stopped transmitting on shortwave), but at least North Americans can get 
BBC Radio 1 on channel 11 and BBC World Service on channel 141 if you have a 
Sirius radio.  That might be a far easier option than dealing with BBC's 
broken-ass web design.

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca

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