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« Reply #45 on: 15:18:46, 05-08-2008 »
Um, let's think. Ah yes, I was, of course, referring to the file allocation table space alloted to me. Wink
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« Reply #46 on: 20:51:21, 09-08-2008 »
Quote from: jamescridland on 11:49:33, 05-08-2008
As the person who is responsible for the technical architecture behind the iPlayer's audio files...

James, I realize this is outside your purview, but perhaps you or someone else could bring this to the attention of whomever is responsible for filing programs on this page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search/radio/?q=Proms&sort_by=broadcast_date

It would be extremely helpful if the Proms could be filed in some logical order and labeled, i.e., Prom 23 - Part 2, etc. Currently some are labeled that way but others are labeled thusly, Fri, 08 Aug 2008. They also seem to be posted in a slapdash manner with no regard for broadcast date or Prom Number that I can discern. The combination of these two factors make programs much harder to find than if they were in some sequential order and labelled as in the first example. Perhaps a small thing but quite annoying.

As you can see, my primary interest right now is the Proms, but clear and sequential labeling would seem to be a benfit for everyone who comes to that page in search of a program to listen again to.

Thanks.
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« Reply #47 on: 14:18:47, 22-08-2008 »
Help! Has anyone else had this problem?

I'm a very infrequent user of iPlayer indeed, despite frequent good intentions to the contrary. However, I just decided I'd better catch up with what Pierre Boulez had to say about Janacek before it disappears from (audio-)view later today. All was going fine except that I was hearing the music from before the interval feature, and waiting patiently for it to get to the spoken discussion, and suddenly I opened a new Internet Explorer browser to do something else and the sound disappeared! The time counter was still going but I wasn't hearing anything.

I couldn't work out what had happened, so in the end I closed the iPlayer and re-loaded it from the Proms homepage. It had already buffered as far as I'd got before (8 and a bit minutes), but at 8 minutes the sound cut out again, in exactly the same place as before. Maybe it was just a coincidence that the first time this had happened was when I'd tried to open another programme, but it seems odd. I left the thing playing, and the sound finally came back at around 13 minutes.

Can anyone else get sound in the middle chunk of that broadcast???
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« Reply #48 on: 14:24:29, 22-08-2008 »
Try this link, tinners: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cxqqp/ (it picks up towards the end of the Capriccio performmance...although it also cuts out at 8 mins - it appears to be ok after 13 mins)
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« Reply #49 on: 16:20:09, 22-08-2008 »
I think that's the same one, IGI. Wink

Another question: if I don't get round to listening to a Prom within a week of the live broadcast, but it has been repeated on the Afternoon on Three slot a few days later, is that also available for later listening? That would give me 4 or 5 more days to catch up, if so. Where would I find these? I looked on the Radio 3 schedule, but got a bit lost.
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« Reply #50 on: 22:04:08, 22-08-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 16:20:09, 22-08-2008
I think that's the same one, IGI. Wink

Another question: if I don't get round to listening to a Prom within a week of the live broadcast, but it has been repeated on the Afternoon on Three slot a few days later, is that also available for later listening? That would give me 4 or 5 more days to catch up, if so. Where would I find these? I looked on the Radio 3 schedule, but got a bit lost.

Don't know if you have already found out tinners but the answer is yes, it is available for a bit longer as part of Afternoon on 3. But it still gets listed in the proms part of iplayer i.e. go to the proms home page and click on the listen through iplayer link.
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