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BBC Reopens Ogg Streams
garf writes: "Once again, back by popular demand, the BBC has opened up live streaming of Radio 4, to test with the new codecs, especially for modem users. Hop over here.
And for those wishing to listen to Radio 1 try these (link one),
(link two).
But beware: '[Radio 1 streams] are available sporadically at the moment. Don't be surprised if it cuts off, as I've probably just killed it ready for restarting with different settings.'
Please email support to the BBC for their continued support for the ogg format. Happy listening."
Trolling? Karma Whoring? Whatever it is, it seems you've spent to much energy trying to be creative and not enough realy thinking this through.
.ogg format. So what better way to introduce .ogg to a wider audience then to have BBC radio stream in .ogg format? So in a major way it is hoped that every "Tom, Dick and AC" jumps on this.
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Chapter 1: "Tom, Dick and AC"
Why is this an interesting story? Because a lot of us are interested, and would like others to be interested in the
Chapter 2: "handle the slashdot effect (very few have)"
As most of us know, this isn't the first time BBC radio has implemented a streaming radio service, more specifically not the first time on this project. They're aware that people are interested and I'm sure they're planning accordingly. If they're truly serious about this then I'm sure they've made provisions to scale hardware according to demand.
Chapter 3: "at the end of the day, BBC will think this is a bad idea"
When any service is initially introduced, you'll usually see disproportionately low or high traffic. Either way, the time immediately following the introduction is absolutely not when to judge your average traffic. This actually holds tru for many IT services. Anyone in the industry knows this, and I'm sure the BBC do as well.I'll assume this is not your line of work.
Chapter 4: "just my
While this could be considered creative, you've missed the mark. The BBC is a product of the United Kingdom. Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom are members of the European Union but are not currently participating in the single currency. Denmark, though, is a member of the Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM II), which means that the Danish krone is linked to the euro, although the exchange rate is not fixed.
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
The number of people complaining about Ogg having quality problems on Slashdot (without clips or objective blind testing) is inversely proportional to the number of people actually posting clips/blind test results to the Ogg Vorbis mailinglists.
We can't fix problems that don't exist.
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We could follow the three letter filetype tradition and shorten "vorbis" to "vbs". My computer seems to be doing this for me with all my MP3s anyway.
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Multiply the radio number by 20 and that's the oldest age that you should be listening to that station.
Radio 1: up to 20 years old
Radio 2: up to 40 years old
Radio 3: up to 60 years old
Radio 4: up to 80 years old
Radio 5: Well, does anyone actually listen to radio 5?
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