Chrissie Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Until three weeks ago we could listen to live BBC radio on our laptop using the BBC website, as well as getting old radio progs on demand. Now we can only do the latter and listen in the past, as it were. When trying to access live radio, a box comes up saying they regret "the sound of silence". Is it just us? Is there anything we can change (media player sort of thing?)Chrissie (81) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 I have a BBC radio app on my iPad and iphone that seems to work fine for listening live. Do you have a tablet you could get the app on?Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumpyaudeman Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 HiAre you using a BBC iplayer programme if so use repair if available or delete it and get a new copy it cured the same problem for me on a pc laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchjaguar Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Hi Chrissie,The BBC have discontinued radio stream with WMA, this would affect you if you use an internet radio that has a pre selected station on a WMA stream, if so you just browse through a long list of internet radio stations and select the 'new' BBC stream you want.(this comment is relevent because on my internet radio there was a pre recorded statement that WMA was discontinued)I have just listed BBC via google on my laptop, clicked through to iplayer radio and live stations work O.K.Hope you get your radio stream back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchjaguar Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Just for info it is possible to view BBC 'blog' re changes being made (in this case radio streaming) I think this is perhaps relevent to when Chrissie lost her radio stream:http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/ent ... 680c49882f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissie Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 Thanks everyone - it would seem that our (less than 2yr old) Dell laptop does not support HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), although I have no idea how to check this. I did look at all the programmes and applications we have to see if any of them looked like the one that would play the BBC live radio (in my case rather like looking vaguely under a car's bonnet to see what might be making that funny noise...) and the only things that looked likely were Adobe Air (which I uninstalled - with no change), and Windows Media Player, which I presumably need for other things and so don't dare uninstall. Forgot to say we use Windows 7. Guess for the moment we will have to live with live radio off the satellite box and gnome. Not a real hardship, just irritating. Would be much more annoying if we lose the ability to listen to past radio progs on demand. Chrissie (81) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 It's not the hardware. I don't listen to the radio via the internet but I went to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2 and then clicked on the "Listen Live" button, there was a popup and it worked OK. I then used the URL of the popu into my browser (IE) after exiting and restarting and that worked OK without problem using the following link http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_two . My desktop is six years old and I a using MS Vista 64bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissie Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 Well, you can knock me down with a baguette - it's back! As of yesterday morning, live BBC radio plays just as it used to, with no apparent action on our part. Weird, but I'm not complaining!Chrissie (81) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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