J G Miller's thread has been hijacked with politics, but *personally* I
wouldn't object to paying a modest fee for a podcast of "quality"
archive material like some of the recent Dickens serialisations. Maybe
£1 for an hour? When I'm sitting at the PC I am normally working, so
don't want to listen to a play it again and it's a PITA to record stuff
to put on the MP3 player for listening to while walking, driving, or in
bed. And why doesn't *anyone* make a decent DAB radio with EPG that I
can set to record stuff to MP3? I have a Roberts, but the user interface
is lousy, it doesn't work reliably, and only records to MP2.

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:24:45 +0000, Newshound
wrote:

J G Miller's thread has been hijacked with politics, but *personally* I
wouldn't object to paying a modest fee for a podcast of "quality"
archive material like some of the recent Dickens serialisations. Maybe
£1 for an hour? When I'm sitting at the PC I am normally working, so
don't want to listen to a play it again and it's a PITA to record stuff
to put on the MP3 player for listening to while walking, driving, or in
bed. And why doesn't *anyone* make a decent DAB radio with EPG that I
can set to record stuff to MP3? I have a Roberts, but the user interface
is lousy, it doesn't work reliably, and only records to MP2.


Could that be because DAB is only MP2 ???

On Jan 18, 7:44*pm, Scott wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:24:45 +0000, Newshound

wrote:
J G Miller's thread has been hijacked with politics, but *personally* I
wouldn't object to paying a modest fee for a podcast of "quality"
archive material like some of the recent Dickens serialisations. Maybe
£1 for an hour? When I'm sitting at the PC I am normally working, so
don't want to listen to a play it again and it's a PITA to record stuff
to put on the MP3 player for listening to while walking, driving, or in
bed. And why doesn't *anyone* make a decent DAB radio with EPG that I
can set to record stuff to MP3? I have a Roberts, but the user interface
is lousy, it doesn't work reliably, and only records to MP2.

Could that be because DAB is only MP2 ???

I just rename the recordings from my PURE DMX-50 from MP2 suffix to
MP3 and my mp3 player will play them.

On 18/01/2012 21:25, airsmoothed wrote:
On Jan 18, 7:44 pm, wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:24:45 +0000, Newshound

wrote:
J G Miller's thread has been hijacked with politics, but *personally* I
wouldn't object to paying a modest fee for a podcast of "quality"
archive material like some of the recent Dickens serialisations. Maybe
£1 for an hour? When I'm sitting at the PC I am normally working, so
don't want to listen to a play it again and it's a PITA to record stuff
to put on the MP3 player for listening to while walking, driving, or in
bed. And why doesn't *anyone* make a decent DAB radio with EPG that I
can set to record stuff to MP3? I have a Roberts, but the user interface
is lousy, it doesn't work reliably, and only records to MP2.

Could that be because DAB is only MP2 ???

I just rename the recordings from my PURE DMX-50 from MP2 suffix to
MP3 and my mp3 player will play them.

Didn't work on mine, had to run them through a converter. Extra hassle.

In article ,
Newshound wrote:
And why doesn't *anyone* make a decent DAB radio with EPG that I
can set to record stuff to MP3? I have a Roberts, but the user interface
is lousy, it doesn't work reliably, and only records to MP2.

Use a PVR? None HD ones will be cheap as chips shortly.

--
*It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Jan 18, 7:24*pm, Newshound wrote:
J G Miller's thread has been hijacked with politics, but *personally* I
wouldn't object to paying a modest fee for a podcast of "quality"
archive material like some of the recent Dickens serialisations. Maybe
£1 for an hour? When I'm sitting at the PC I am normally working, so
don't want to listen to a play it again and it's a PITA to record stuff
to put on the MP3 player for listening to while walking, driving, or in
bed.

You find Radio Downloader a pain in the a(r)s(s)(e)?

I think it's as easy as pie. I can't imagine you'd get better if you
paid for a service.

I note the latest version doesn't even insist that you transcode, so I
might try it again in preference to the more geeky but far more fully
featured get_iplayer.

Cheers,
David.

wrote:
On Jan 18, 7:24 pm, wrote:
J G Miller's thread has been hijacked with politics, but *personally* I
wouldn't object to paying a modest fee for a podcast of "quality"
archive material like some of the recent Dickens serialisations. Maybe
£1 for an hour? When I'm sitting at the PC I am normally working, so
don't want to listen to a play it again and it's a PITA to record stuff
to put on the MP3 player for listening to while walking, driving, or in
bed.

You find Radio Downloader a pain in the a(r)s(s)(e)?

I think it's as easy as pie. I can't imagine you'd get better if you
paid for a service.

I note the latest version doesn't even insist that you transcode, so I
might try it again in preference to the more geeky but far more fully
featured get_iplayer.

Lots of radio stuff available as podcasts and the BBC archive is really
quite good already.

And, by the way, what do you want to listen to when you're sitting at
the PC?


--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

On 19/01/2012 15:13, wrote:
On Jan 18, 7:24 pm, wrote:
J G Miller's thread has been hijacked with politics, but *personally* I
wouldn't object to paying a modest fee for a podcast of "quality"
archive material like some of the recent Dickens serialisations. Maybe
£1 for an hour? When I'm sitting at the PC I am normally working, so
don't want to listen to a play it again and it's a PITA to record stuff
to put on the MP3 player for listening to while walking, driving, or in
bed.

You find Radio Downloader a pain in the a(r)s(s)(e)?

I think it's as easy as pie. I can't imagine you'd get better if you
paid for a service.

I note the latest version doesn't even insist that you transcode, so I
might try it again in preference to the more geeky but far more fully
featured get_iplayer.

Cheers,
David.

Fantastic, it seems to do *exactly* what I wanted. Many thanks for the
pointer. If it's as good as it seems I'll lob some cash in their direction.