I cannot begin to answer the question of whether In Touch will look into this looming ceasing of the lower quality BBC .mp3 streams made available for older internet radio devices and some smart phones and tablets.
I certainly do not want to phase or panic people on this subject, but I will put the question (if I can) to BBC Sounds and drop a line to In Touch as well.
If I am around my VR player I will press record at just before the hour to hear if any more pop-up announcements come through. If I can record one of these then that would be some evidence of what I am going on about.
Ray.
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On 03/11/2022 10:23 pm, ltmmcarter@... wrote:
Please answer the question why isn't in touch doing something about this, they are doing stuff on driving tests? It is outrageous that the bbc is ignoring the problems of blind people!s
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Subject: [dap-uk] Probability internet players we use will not access BBC streams after mid 2023
Sorry if necessary for cross-posting - and about the rather long subject, and this might not be exactly the right list to bring it up.
In short, some of us will be crying Help! soon, to do things the BBC
Sounds way.
On my VR Stream just before 2Pm - and cutting into the end credits for
the American local elections series - an announcement came to my VR
Trek that after mid 2023 "the stream you are listening on will no longer
work..." - or words to that effect.From then onwards it would seem all
streaming will have to be via BBC Sounds.
I am guessing most if not all specialist players we use depend on these
lower quality streams at present. So, will there be a way around this
change?
Presently the VR stream and most if not all phone apps that come with
Synapptic the Blind Shell 2 and possibly other smart phones are set up
to use these streams. I am guessing, but don't actually know, that when
BBC Sounds becomes the sole way of accessing live radiothen many will
find some sort of update to radio features on these devices wil be
needed, and worse, a pretty expensive upgrade to new hardware.
Do I hear some screaming, Get an Amazon speaker! I have one, and so far
I have monumentally failed to connect to BBC sounds using my Synapptic
phone with its installed Alexa app - which also has BBC sounds app on it
too. No doubt if I do not solve that problem soon I shall be calling on
someone for Help!
In short, a cumbersome work-around must be in the offing, if not forking
out for another device?
Ray.
