[peel] Re: OT - Blancmange In Concert

[Paul Webster]

BBC will be turning off WMA for On Demand content soon.
It was due to happen in Jamuary but had a stay of execution for a couple of months.

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> On 24 Jan 2015, at 09:45, "Alan Ford ford.alan@... [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I then have to convert the wma to mp3. My conversion program tells me off: "You are about to transcode from one lossy format to another. This will degrade the quality further". 
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>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Alan Ford <ford.alan@...> wrote:
>> I use iplayer in command line mode. I have to specify --modes=wma to get it to work. Downloading Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee Live Hour as we speak (fingers crossed).
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>>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:31 AM, RobF robfleay@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>>> Is get_iplayer still working? I thought they'd changed the way the iplayer worked to stop these 3rd party tools grabbing the audio?
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>>> Incidentally the producer of 6Music Live Hour got back to me on my request and not only confirmed that they had found the sessions in question, but also to tell me the date that they will be broadcasting them!
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>>> If anyone has any obscure requests for repeats, let me know and I'll pass them on
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>>>> On 23 January 2015 at 11:07, haze.harrison@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>>>> Brilliant, thanks Bill.
>>>> I use get_iplayer which is usually very reliable but in this case just left me with a flash file with size zero. Of course as I'm about a month behind on everything it had already disappeared from the Beeb site so I couldn't download it again.
>>>> Cheers, Haze
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