On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:04:08 +0000, Ian Jackson
wrote:

The only local radio station worth listening to is LBC. OK, it's 90%
phone-ins...

Is it? I've been listening to LBC a bit recently and they appear to
'go to the phone lines' rarely. Most of the air time is used up by
presenters gassing about whatever's on their mind. This morning Steve
Allen was telling listeners about the items in his wallet. Interesting
stuff.
--
Martin Jay

wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:11:31 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:


I couldn't listen to music amidst the turmoil of taking the dogs for a
walk. We spend most of time interacting with other dogs, and it's noisy.

Bill

Is this a description of Dogging? I've wondered what the term meant.

G.Harman
No, dogging is when you have sex in the park with people watching. We
don't start that until May.

Bill

On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:36:34 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:11:31 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:


I couldn't listen to music amidst the turmoil of taking the dogs for a
walk. We spend most of time interacting with other dogs, and it's noisy.

Bill

Is this a description of Dogging? I've wondered what the term meant.

G.Harman
No, dogging is when you have sex in the park with people watching. We
don't start that until May.

That's a bit early isn't it?

"Ne'er cast a clout till May be out"

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

"Paul Ratcliffe" wrote in
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:32:41 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf

wrote:

Was it here that someone remarked that BBC local radio via
iPlayer had
annoying clicks every few seconds? It was somewhere anyway.
Well,
I've got the Howard Leader programme on from BBC Lincs and
it's
clicking like mad.

Anyone else noticed a fault on iPlayer with local stations?
The BBC
national radio channels play perfectly here, as does
telly.

If you're interested there is a Freeware program called
"Total Recorder"
- with this you could capture some of the iPlayer output as
an MP3 and
e-mail it to the beeb along with your complaint. Perhaps hit
the "big
boys" such as Feedback on Radio 4 so that your problem gets a
wider
audience.

I was going to ask: Who at the BBC has this been reported to
as yet?
Anyone?

If not, and it persists, I can see if I can nudge someone's
elbow. Although
I suspect they may know already and are looking at fixing it.

It is known about. I believe it's a faulty routing matrix at
the
Internet ops. centre. It's being replaced as a matter of
urgency.


Very easy way of recording sound (only) on a PC from any source.

Download Audacity (free,) set it recording, and it will record
any sound/music/whatever passing through the machine. It can then
be saved (exported) as wav, mp3, or what you like.


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

In message , Woody
writes
"Paul Ratcliffe" wrote in
message ...
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:32:41 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf

wrote:

Was it here that someone remarked that BBC local radio via
iPlayer had
annoying clicks every few seconds? It was somewhere anyway.
Well,
I've got the Howard Leader programme on from BBC Lincs and
it's
clicking like mad.

Anyone else noticed a fault on iPlayer with local stations?
The BBC
national radio channels play perfectly here, as does
telly.

If you're interested there is a Freeware program called
"Total Recorder"
- with this you could capture some of the iPlayer output as
an MP3 and
e-mail it to the beeb along with your complaint. Perhaps hit
the "big
boys" such as Feedback on Radio 4 so that your problem gets a
wider
audience.

I was going to ask: Who at the BBC has this been reported to
as yet?
Anyone?

If not, and it persists, I can see if I can nudge someone's
elbow. Although
I suspect they may know already and are looking at fixing it.

It is known about. I believe it's a faulty routing matrix at
the
Internet ops. centre. It's being replaced as a matter of
urgency.


Very easy way of recording sound (only) on a PC from any source.

Download Audacity (free,) set it recording, and it will record
any sound/music/whatever passing through the machine. It can then
be saved (exported) as wav, mp3, or what you like.

Although it takes a bit of getting used to, Audacity is very good.
You'll probably need to get into the computer's audio mixer settings and
play around with things in order to find out what affects what Audacity
'sees', and to set the recording level. After recording, you can then
edit the audio, and save (export) only the bit(s) you want. I normally
first export to a .wav file, and if that is OK, open it and export again
as the much smaller mp3.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
--
Ian