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Blackberry playbook won't play bbc radio iplayer
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Posted January 28, 2013 at 9:20AM
My playbook gives media format may not be supported. Is there a way to get my local radio?
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Posted January 28, 2013 at 9:59AM
Works for me on my playbook... but I'm not sure of "local" radio stations...
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Posted January 28, 2013 at 10:19AM
The shortcut that you have installed, is it to the iPlayer and you try to access bbc radio from there or is it this link direct to iPlayer radio?
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Posted January 28, 2013 at 10:43AM
I have tried both, i.e. going via radio - local stations, they show up o.k. but on clicking "play now" I get the error message. Also going via iPlayer radio as you suggest gives the same result. I don't want to have to get an app, surely it should cope with just radio audio.
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Posted January 28, 2013 at 11:29AM
There seem to be a few people having the same problem - came across this link in a forum that may work for you.
You may also be interested in this article.
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Posted January 28, 2013 at 1:20PM
difarn Thanks for your last, apologies for the delay in following up, chicken curry called. I have looked at the two sites you suggested, and while they don't give a solution to the enigma, they have given me something to think about. It does look, though, like a missing audio codec, may have to wait for the BBC and RIM to get their acts together. The reason I am chasing this is that the Beeb have changed the time of our favourite Sunday evening programme on Radio Somerset to a later time almost in the wee small hours, and it would be convenient to listen on the Playbook, the programme is still on Devon and Cornwall at the old time.
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Posted January 28, 2013 at 2:30PM
I have read that the native blackberry playbook media player can play radio if the broadcasts are in MP3 format - this is why the article I posted earlier advised you to go to the playing live stream on the radio site. BBC iPlayer radio may only broadcast in proprietary formats except for MP3 podcasts.
You may find this and this interesting reading. I don't have a playbook myself (I do have a Blackberry) but I am very interested to see how they pan out.
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Posted January 28, 2013 at 4:03PM
Thanks most of that seems to refer to the phone, not the playbook. Perhaps I'll try the. Beeb direct?
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Posted January 30, 2013 at 6:16PM
difarn Just for the record I referred my query to the BBC and got a reply from Audience Services, but not much help. They referred me to BBC web pages I have already looked at, it does seem that radio iPlayer is only available on certain android devices. I fail to understand why the audio of video iPlayer programmes work perfectly well but not radio programmes. Probably this is a case of wait and see..
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