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New Hitchhiker's Episodes Available Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-panic dept.

Michael Sheldon writes "The BBC is now offering the first of the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio episodes as either Real or WMP audio streams. Meaning listeners abroad can now hear the new series, which started playing on UK radio last Tuesday."

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  1. RA and WMA? by moonbender · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Shame that they don't offer either MP3 or OGG versions of the show. Wonder why they decided against using them, especially considering that the BBC has some experience with OGG - they used to have some live radio streams running it.

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    1. Re:RA and WMA? by jonwil · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I suspect part of it is not wanting it in a format that can be saved to disk and kept for later (otherwise it would hurt sales when the thing is released on CD or whatever)

    2. Re:RA and WMA? by Alranor · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So i'm guessing they've never heard of mplayer -dumpstream before then.

      Ah well, never mind eh.

    3. Re:RA and WMA? by Malc · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Experience with OGG? They haven't touched it for nearly two years!

      Personally I'm disappointed they didn't also offer it in FLAC, PCM, DTS, SDDS and Dolby Digital! Give it a rest, stop whining, and be happy that they made it available in the first place. It seems people get moderated up just for whinging about OGG. And no, I'm not new here ;)

  2. Re:There's isn't a 42 joke in here, I swear! by ninthwave · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The BBC isn't propietery it is paid for by a license fee which is charged to all owners of Tv's and radios like a tax. They have to be as free as possible as it has been paid for by the UK citizens already.

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