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Local BBC radio on Blackberry Playbook

sunnypete

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Posted February 1, 2013 at 6:21PM

Having searched far and wide, including the Tech forum and direct to the Beeb, I thought I might as well come here to the fount of all knowledge. Has anyone who has a Playbook been able to get their local radio station on BBC iPlayer. I get an unsupportd "media format" message when I try to listen live, although iPlayer videos work well. Has anyone found a way to get round this?

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bremner

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Posted February 1, 2013 at 6:50PM

Are you trying to access through the built in Web app

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Al94

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Posted February 1, 2013 at 6:58PM

Works great on Android!

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sunnypete

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Posted February 1, 2013 at 7:17PM

Bremner not sure what you mean by built in web app? A197 playbook is not android os.

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AroundAgain

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Posted February 1, 2013 at 8:34PM

Hi I've just tried to get my local radio station on my Playbook but a search didn't even find it! I then went to the iplayer(radio) website, found the station but, as you say, message to say not supported.

Yes, a nuisance.

Have you tried Crackberry forums - especially for all things Blackberry and Playbook have own forum - http://forums.crackberry.com/blackberry-playbook-tablet-forums-f242/

There are some very experienced folks with Playbooks on there.

Cheers

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bremner

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Posted February 1, 2013 at 9:04PM

Sorry meant web icon.

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sunnypete

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Posted February 2, 2013 at 8:40AM

Hello all, Thanks for replies. I've looked at the Crackberry but most seems related to the phone. The Beeb iPlayer site seems to say that radio iPlayer is limited to iphones and android os, maybe the Playbook os will be covered in the future. In the meantime I shall have to use my laptop which works ok with the radio iPlayer, it would have been convenient to use the Playbook. I did find a freebie app, nobex radio,which, with a bit of fiddling, has produced the main BBC stations, but haven't yet found the local stations.

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