I am a longstanding user of the excellent BBC iPlayer plugin, created by Triode and currently nobly maintained by BPA. Having invested in a number of Raspberry Pi3 and Audio DAC's, along with PiCorePlayer it is my sole method of accessing BBC radio content at home.
Recently the excellent BBC iPlayer Extra provided by BPA has ceased to work, apparently because of BBC enhancements (not!).
Readers will no doubt already be aware that the BBC has announced that shortly there will be a requirement to register and login to use their TV iPlayer application. My concern is that this requirement will also extend to the BBC digital radio streams.
Reading around I found this BBC blog post here written by Andrew Scott now entitled as "Launch Director myBBC" (who I recall was involved in trying to resolve the fall out a few years ago from the fiasco surrounding the poorly coordinated retirement by the BBC of certain radio streams which left a large number of people with useless hardware).
Worryingly on Mr Scott's blog post (in between all the polished corporate speak) he states:
"Last September, we outlined our plans to make the BBC more personal and relevant to you. We’re doing this by making some changes that mean you will need to sign in with a BBC account to access BBC iPlayer, BBC iPlayer Radio and some other services."
The majority of comments posted in reply to his blog post focus on the TV iPlayer sign in requirement, although there is currently a single one posted by piers (12/5/2017 @13:56) asking:
"I can't see any indication whether sign-in will affectability to listen to live radio via internet radio tuner (portable, like Roberts/Pure, or hi-fi like Cambridge Audio/Panasonic streaming devices).As well, up to now, these broadcasts have been openly available on mainland Europe (except some 5Live sporting events)."
There is currently no response from the BBC.
I have previously hi-lighted my concerns about the future direction of the BBC in this thread here
I believe that some readers of this forum may have "contacts" within the BBC and I wonder if they are aware of any plans to obstruct the current DASH streams?
I would not want to be faced with the fiasco we had last time when users only became aware of the problem once the streams were withdrawn (agitate now!)
Cheers
Alan
Recently the excellent BBC iPlayer Extra provided by BPA has ceased to work, apparently because of BBC enhancements (not!).
Readers will no doubt already be aware that the BBC has announced that shortly there will be a requirement to register and login to use their TV iPlayer application. My concern is that this requirement will also extend to the BBC digital radio streams.
Reading around I found this BBC blog post here written by Andrew Scott now entitled as "Launch Director myBBC" (who I recall was involved in trying to resolve the fall out a few years ago from the fiasco surrounding the poorly coordinated retirement by the BBC of certain radio streams which left a large number of people with useless hardware).
Worryingly on Mr Scott's blog post (in between all the polished corporate speak) he states:
"Last September, we outlined our plans to make the BBC more personal and relevant to you. We’re doing this by making some changes that mean you will need to sign in with a BBC account to access BBC iPlayer, BBC iPlayer Radio and some other services."
The majority of comments posted in reply to his blog post focus on the TV iPlayer sign in requirement, although there is currently a single one posted by piers (12/5/2017 @13:56) asking:
"I can't see any indication whether sign-in will affectability to listen to live radio via internet radio tuner (portable, like Roberts/Pure, or hi-fi like Cambridge Audio/Panasonic streaming devices).As well, up to now, these broadcasts have been openly available on mainland Europe (except some 5Live sporting events)."
There is currently no response from the BBC.
I have previously hi-lighted my concerns about the future direction of the BBC in this thread here
I believe that some readers of this forum may have "contacts" within the BBC and I wonder if they are aware of any plans to obstruct the current DASH streams?
I would not want to be faced with the fiasco we had last time when users only became aware of the problem once the streams were withdrawn (agitate now!)
Cheers
Alan