Re: [Swprograms] Links to info on BBC streaming changes and effort to Restore Internet feeds

[Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is true to a point.

A laptop running Windows 7 / 8 / OS X / various current Linux flavors
gets updated often.

Windows XP laptops do not, yet for many folks they work well enough
for their needs.

Windows NT / 2000?  Probably not upgradable as-is; you'd have to
install a new(er) OS, and the hardware might not be robust enough to
handle that new OS.  Remember when we all felt 640k of RAM would be
enough?

That's the parallel with the installed base of Internet radios; they
aren't as agile as newer devices, and -- perhaps in a testament to the
quality of their construction -- didn't fail before this new risk of
obsolesence.

Back when these devices came out, they were agile enough, now they
aren't.  At some point, smartphones running Android KitKat will be in
the same boat.

And it is, indeed, "deja vu all over again"...

To end this lamentation on a positive note...

The good news is that there are other streaming radio stations that
offer the BBC (WS, not Radio 4) 24/7 via MP3 (primarily), and one
could use timer-activated stream capturing software to grab the stuff
they want to listen to later, and then run a UPnP server that most of
these legacy Internet radios could see.  So, if you're motivated
enough, you can create your own "Listen Again" library.

RC



On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Scott Royall <royall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> What about the various appliances for playing MP3 audio from the 'Net?
>> Well, I have a counter-question to offer. Why do people keep buying
>> software-based devices from manufacturers who cannot or will not easily
>> update those things? This laptop gets software updates with almost alarming
>> frequency. Same goes for your smartphone or whatever you're reading this
>> email on. I guess you were unaware that HLS has been in Android since
>> version 3.0. (Sorry, it was news to me also.) The bottom line is that we are
>> in a softworld these days where the media transport can, and does, change.
>> You have no worries as long as your content consumption device is equally
>> agile.
>>
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