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iPlayer annoyances
Jul. 25th, 2008 08:31 pmI'm not vastly impressed with the new iPlayer based version of radio player.
The removal of programme listings from the pop-up play, linked to from the station home pages, feels like a seriously retrograde step. It certainly complicates the process of finding recently broadcast shows. And no, the More Like This feature, nice though it may be, doesn't come close to compensating.
All of this wouldn't be quite so much of a problem if the iPlayer radio pages were as reliable as the original Listen Again, but I find that they seem to spend far more time buffering up data then they do actually playing anything. This may, of course, indicate a problem with my setup but given I don't have problems with other streaming sites, I'm inclined to blame the Beeb.
And also, what's with the annoying station identification messages prefixed to the Radio 3 live stream? It feels like yet another example of annoying BBC branding, like the "BBC News for Radio 4" tag appended to the R4 news bulletins last year in a clumsy attempt to strengthen the brand of BBC News.
The removal of programme listings from the pop-up play, linked to from the station home pages, feels like a seriously retrograde step. It certainly complicates the process of finding recently broadcast shows. And no, the More Like This feature, nice though it may be, doesn't come close to compensating.
All of this wouldn't be quite so much of a problem if the iPlayer radio pages were as reliable as the original Listen Again, but I find that they seem to spend far more time buffering up data then they do actually playing anything. This may, of course, indicate a problem with my setup but given I don't have problems with other streaming sites, I'm inclined to blame the Beeb.
And also, what's with the annoying station identification messages prefixed to the Radio 3 live stream? It feels like yet another example of annoying BBC branding, like the "BBC News for Radio 4" tag appended to the R4 news bulletins last year in a clumsy attempt to strengthen the brand of BBC News.
