Apologies for repeating something I said in an earlier post, but does anyone else believe it would have dragged on for so many months had there been a major problem when watching popular BBC shows like Eastenders or Dr Who. I certainly don't!
tried to listen to the vintage top 40 show on BBC radio cornwall last saturrday ,but gave up due to the appaling sound (it was a shame as ed stewpot stewart stood in for saun tilly )
Apologies for repeating something I said in an earlier post, but does anyone else believe it would have dragged on for so many months had there been a major problem when watching popular BBC shows like Eastenders or Dr Who. I certainly don't!
I doubt it, there would be an outcry with the rest of the media behind it, but radio is the poor relation.
I've always said one of the problems with the BBC being non commercial is that ultimately nothing matters, people still get paid even if it's farting away left, right and centre and barely listenable - "what does it matter?" Anybody else would have replaced whole chunks of equipment and got it sounding better than ever.
The new parts have arrived and testing will begin on Monday.
The BBC's technology partner is called ATOS ... Please make up own gags..
Let's see what happens in the week.
A good opportunity to get the sound quality of the BBC local stations up to the same level of the nationals. They sound dull and flat (and are in mono), presumably because they are using low bit-rate mp3 streams rather than the 128k AAC or better of the nationals.
This is a streaming problem. Possibly the seek mechanism of the harddrive interfereing with the audio ( a voltage spike as laptop audio not hifi !)- if you can output as digital signal to say USB headphones or a usb enabled loudspeaker it should notbe present
Any updates on this? Seems to be getting worse on some stations
Agree...just tried to listen to Radio Kent and have given up after 10 mins. Totally unlistenable, I thought this was our BBC!
Come on BBC GET IT SORTED :mad::mad:
Trying to listen online to Roger Day on BBC Kent at the moment as football has taken over FM.:mad: All sorts of irritating noises spoiling it, unfortunately.
i was listening to the steve white soul show tonight on bbc radio sheffield and steve mentioned the iplayer problem and said that it was being sorted out at the moment and should all be fixed by next week (he has been saying the same thing for a few weeks though )
i was listening to the steve white soul show tonight on bbc radio sheffield and steve mentioned the iplayer problem and said that it was being sorted out at the moment and should all be fixed by next week (he has been saying the same thing for a few weeks though )
James Addyman at BBC Radio Leeds said that he had an email from one of the engineers involved last Thursday saying that they had now got some cabling they needed to get the new equipment connected up, they'd be doing final testing this week and were hoping to get it finally sorted by the weekend.
(Which is not to say any of the various dates mentioned above wasn't accurate at the time! There does seem to be a bit more confidence about this one, though.)
Heard a trail on BBC Essex this morning - apologising for the recent poor quality of the internet streams and that this would be fixed from start of programmes on Thursday 12th! Good news
Heard a trail on BBC Essex this morning - apologising for the recent poor quality of the internet streams and that this would be fixed from start of programmes on Thursday 12th! Good news
This was said by Alan Ross, Head of Technology, English regions on Radio 4 Feedback when he was interviewed about the problem and why it has taken five months to hopefully fix it.
Starts 1 minute 45 in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/feedback#playepisode1
Putting out a trail is an interesting way of going about things!
In some ways.. good old transparent, honest BBC.
In other ways.. I'm very much doubting they'd make a trail to apologise if someone had made an editorial screw-up. So why do the tech guys get it?
Sounded like a centrally produced trail to me rather than something Chelmsford did themselves.... I'd expect to hear it on other local stations during this week...
I recorded the two hour shows of Pirates on Parade from Radio Norfolk over the holidays and the clicking was a pain in the a**e.
So far I've spent over 2 hours trying to edit out the dam clicks and pops using Audacity.
Four months to sort this problem is totally unacceptable.:mad:
This was said by Alan Ross, Head of Technology, English regions on Radio 4 Feedback when he was interviewed about the problem and why it has taken five months to hopefully fix it.
Starts 1 minute 45 in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/feedback#playepisode1
Alan Ross seems to dismiss people who listen via the i-player as not not that important to them. :mad:
The interveiwer made a good point when he suggested a notice being posted on line, would have been a good idea but then again we are not important to them. :mad::mad:
I was listening to Sean Rowley All Back to Mine BBC Kent on the I-Player and he mentioned that the popping sounds should be cured by the end of this week...so here's hoping...
Alan Ross seems to dismiss people who listen via the i-player as not not that important to them. :mad:
The interveiwer made a good point when he suggested a notice being posted on line, would have been a good idea but then again we are not important to them. :mad::mad:
The online notice was posted in January on the Iplayer site if you clicked on Iplayer help and then latest programme issues, six to eight weeks after the problem occurred. IMO it should have been displayed earlier and on the local radio pages where the internet stream links are so that people did not think it was a problem with their computer, which many did.
Whilst BBC local radio has an older audience the figure quoted, 0.1% of "our, presumably the BBC's radio, audience listen to local radio on the internet, does seem very small. According to RAJAR BBC radio's weekly audience is 34.9 million, local radio 7.3 million and 10.2% of the population listen to radio through the internet every week. That's not including Listen Again.
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I doubt it, there would be an outcry with the rest of the media behind it, but radio is the poor relation.
I've always said one of the problems with the BBC being non commercial is that ultimately nothing matters, people still get paid even if it's farting away left, right and centre and barely listenable - "what does it matter?" Anybody else would have replaced whole chunks of equipment and got it sounding better than ever.
Listening to him live on FM to avoid the pops and clicks on Listen Again.
The BBC's technology partner is called ATOS ... Please make up own gags..
Let's see what happens in the week.
A good opportunity to get the sound quality of the BBC local stations up to the same level of the nationals. They sound dull and flat (and are in mono), presumably because they are using low bit-rate mp3 streams rather than the 128k AAC or better of the nationals.
Fabulous, at least they have arrived thats good news.
Agree...just tried to listen to Radio Kent and have given up after 10 mins. Totally unlistenable, I thought this was our BBC!
Come on BBC GET IT SORTED :mad::mad:
James Addyman at BBC Radio Leeds said that he had an email from one of the engineers involved last Thursday saying that they had now got some cabling they needed to get the new equipment connected up, they'd be doing final testing this week and were hoping to get it finally sorted by the weekend.
Still popping and clicking today though.
(Which is not to say any of the various dates mentioned above wasn't accurate at the time! There does seem to be a bit more confidence about this one, though.)
In some ways.. good old transparent, honest BBC.
In other ways.. I'm very much doubting they'd make a trail to apologise if someone had made an editorial screw-up. So why do the tech guys get it?
This was said by Alan Ross, Head of Technology, English regions on Radio 4 Feedback when he was interviewed about the problem and why it has taken five months to hopefully fix it.
Starts 1 minute 45 in:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/feedback#playepisode1
Sounded like a centrally produced trail to me rather than something Chelmsford did themselves.... I'd expect to hear it on other local stations during this week...
So far I've spent over 2 hours trying to edit out the dam clicks and pops using Audacity.
Four months to sort this problem is totally unacceptable.:mad:
Alan Ross seems to dismiss people who listen via the i-player as not not that important to them. :mad:
The interveiwer made a good point when he suggested a notice being posted on line, would have been a good idea but then again we are not important to them. :mad::mad:
All LR streams will be off overnight to allow this to happen.
That's the plan :-)
http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/announcements/local_radio_silence_april
The online notice was posted in January on the Iplayer site if you clicked on Iplayer help and then latest programme issues, six to eight weeks after the problem occurred. IMO it should have been displayed earlier and on the local radio pages where the internet stream links are so that people did not think it was a problem with their computer, which many did.
Whilst BBC local radio has an older audience the figure quoted, 0.1% of "our, presumably the BBC's radio, audience listen to local radio on the internet, does seem very small. According to RAJAR BBC radio's weekly audience is 34.9 million, local radio 7.3 million and 10.2% of the population listen to radio through the internet every week. That's not including Listen Again.