Comments on: Listening to BBC Radio using Ubuntu

By: Brisbane web design

Brisbane web design — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:01:03 +0000

I still can’t believe how easy it is to get new software by using the command line. Thanks so much for your tutorial.

I’m really looking forward to this week’s release of Ubuntu.

A Stumble for your efforts :)

By: Russ

Russ — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:45:17 +0000

As a linux newbie I messed around with Firefox and could not get to listen to radio channels via iplayer. In a fit of desperation I installed opera, despite a warning about using a browser that does not support plugins it works.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:11:13 +0000

I’m not in any way a hacker so I don’t know how good this method is, but rather than installing yet another media player I’ve made files

VLC can use;I’ve uploaded the files; You can download them from http://www.tupple.net/radio/ I’ve done BBC1,2,3 and 4 and open any of them with vlc. It sometimes takes a few seconds to connect.

By: iPlayer gets radio. Properly this time. - blog - James Cridland

iPlayer gets radio. Properly this time. - blog - James Cridland — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:12:12 +0000

[...] In Flash, finally. At a decent bitrate, finally. No Real Player required (good job, it’s a devil to install on this Ubuntu [...]

By: luke

luke — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:51:36 +0000

I’m also running Ubuntu and I’m unable to listen to BBC listen-again for radio

I have realplayer installed, but clicking on play button does nowt. I’ve also got the mplayer plugin installed… bit stuck.

Is it possible to just have the feed URLs to use in an external player??

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:58:36 +0000

I am running Ubuntu studio and have realplayer installed but still cannot get the embedded player to work. I get an error message “Could not find hxplay or realplay in the system path to use as an embedded player” I can play in an external player such as totem but am not able to accesss the Listen Again feature.

I am using a Compaq Pressario and my tech friend thinks it is a hardware problem or TCP.

Any help would be most welcome. It is the feature l miss most since switching from windows to linux.

By: Chris Wyatt

Chris Wyatt — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:32:05 +0000

Helix player doesn’t work sadly, I don’t think it’s licensed to play Real audio, even though Realplayer is based on Helix. Personally I installed one of the nightly builds from here:

http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/?category=realplay-current

It seems stable enough to me, I’ve been using it for a while and have had no problems with stability. Sadly although installation is easy, there isn’t an easy way to uninstall it.

By: William T

William T — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:24:58 +0000

I guess you could use the open source Helix player as well? https://helixcommunity.org/

(at least I assume this is different from the one you’re talking about - I must confess to having found the free Helix *server* rather useful in the past..)

By: alf

alf — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:41:19 +0000

The dapper-commercial repository is for an old version of Ubuntu. You can either use feisty-commercial or wait for RealPlayer to be added to gutsy-commercial (now called gutsy-partner, in fact). There are other alternatives, including getting the Linux installer from real.com, which is easy enough.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RealplayerInstallationMethods

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:23:59 +0000

Another way (without Real Player) is to install SqueezeCenter from www.slimdevices.com and then install AlienBBC. Should work on various Linux distros, Windows, FreeBSD… I’ve got it running on FreeNAS.

If you don’t want to buy a Squeezebox hardware player, either use the Java SoftSqueeze or I’m using SqueezeSlave plus the ‘Moose’ windows front end.

It does rather more than just allow you to listen to the BBC. It will manage your whole music library and integrate with iTunes if you really want.