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    From Brian Gaff@brian1gaff@gmail.com to uk.rec.audio on Fri Sep 29 11:47:26 2023
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    OK so you can play all bbc audio streams direct from the bbc as long as you have an account, without the awful bbc sounds jingle.
    However, on my amazon device I can no longer use radio player to play any
    bbc local radio, or radio 2. The remaining stations still work.
    Have the bbc made another cock up or did they really mean to ban third
    party players from playing their streams?
    If you use my tuner radio, you can find a different set of channels ork or don't work.
    Very pecular logic or more likely a cock up. One has to remember that after next week all the forced cuts on bbc local radio start to take effect, including the removal of regional late niight radio, tailored to the people
    in siad area, in favour of an as yet undisclosed national program. I
    shudder to think it might be another bland presenter running bits of news from around the country and music with precious little involvement from the listener. I hope to be proved wrong, but I'm not optomistic.
    Brian
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  • From Ian McCall@ian@eruvia.org to uk.rec.audio on Wed Oct 4 10:09:50 2023
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    On 29 Sep 2023, Brian Gaff wrote
    (in article <uf6a02$7vs4$1@dont-email.me>):

    However, on my amazon device I can no longer use radio player to play any
    bbc local radio, or radio 2. The remaining stations still work.
    Have the bbc made another cock up or did they really mean to ban third
    party players from playing their streams?

    Very pecular logic or more likely a cock up.

    Sad to say I think it -isnrCOt- a cock-up, and is a deliberate strategy to force everyone onto Sounds. It has been the case on the Apple HomePod ecosystem for quite some time now - used to be able to get BBC stations (via TuneIn I think? Not sure), have not been able to for years now. The clumsy workaround is that you can play them via the Sounds app (and you can still play the sound on a HomePod by starting the stream on a phone/Mac and using airplay to get it to the HomePod).

    Cheers,
    Ian


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  • From Brian Gaff@brian1gaff@gmail.com to uk.rec.audio on Thu Oct 19 15:31:23 2023
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    Yes, I've also noticed that playing stuff via sounds now sends you adverts
    for bbc podcasts and the like, at the start. Don't we get enough adverts for this stuff already? Do they really think that I as an in touch listener
    really care about a new bbc podcast about the way to use make up on darker skins?
    Brian
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    "Ian McCall" <ian@eruvia.org> wrote in message news:0001HW.2ACD635E01E910B330E90E38F@news.individual.net...
    On 29 Sep 2023, Brian Gaff wrote
    (in article <uf6a02$7vs4$1@dont-email.me>):

    However, on my amazon device I can no longer use radio player to play any
    bbc local radio, or radio 2. The remaining stations still work.
    Have the bbc made another cock up or did they really mean to ban third
    party players from playing their streams?

    Very pecular logic or more likely a cock up.

    Sad to say I think it -isn't- a cock-up, and is a deliberate strategy to force everyone onto Sounds. It has been the case on the Apple HomePod ecosystem for quite some time now - used to be able to get BBC stations
    (via
    TuneIn I think? Not sure), have not been able to for years now. The clumsy workaround is that you can play them via the Sounds app (and you can still play the sound on a HomePod by starting the stream on a phone/Mac and
    using
    airplay to get it to the HomePod).

    Cheers,
    Ian




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