On 07/04/2015 18:37, Jim Lesurf wrote:
Those who use the BBC Radio iPlayer may find a new page at

http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/BBC/Audio...ioFactory.html

of interest.

It is the result of recent discussions with some people at the BBC and
sheds some light on the current developments. Note that things are still
evolving and there are some outstanding areas that need clarification.
I'll update the page when things change or some matters become clearer.

Cheers,

Jim

Thank you for publishing the web page, it is gives me a much better
understanding as to what is going on. You should put your name at the
top as I thought it was written by someone at the BBC!

If they make more of the BBC programmes available at 320kbps that will
be very good.

What annoys me about the current change is that they have paid scant
attention to the problems end users face when their equipment no longer
works, because of the format changes. The argument that they just told
some manufacturers some details of the change about a year ago is not
good enough.

They should have obtained the manufacturers agreement that provisions
would be made so that end user equipment would continue to work without
end user additional expense.

I do wonder whether manufacturers will face additional expense because
of the use of proprietary encoding techniques.

The BBC has made many changes to the way TV signals are broadcast, these
changes have all been handled much better from and end user perspective,
and have generally had obvious end user benefits.

The Audio Factory change has been handled in a very high handed manner.
No thought for the end user, and they even refuse to publish some of the
URLs.

I strongly suspect that the need to improve some of the BBC internal
systems which may well be necessary as been rolled into a change to the
external presentations. i.e. the radio streams and pod casts that I can
listen to on my computer or with my radio equipment.


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Michael Chare