BBC 1Xtra Drum n Bass top 10

I had some trouble listening to the BCC Drum n Bass top 10 this week. The BBC was telling me that iPlayer couldn't find the recording when I pressed the "listen now" link on the DnB chart page.

Oh well, luckilly I still had a rtsp link in my RealPlayer favourites and was able to play directly from RealPlayer. The BBC isn't too keen on their streams being played directly through  RealPlayer; something to do with it not being all that kind to their servers. But if it's the only way.. :)

Here's the direct rtsp link.

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/1xtra/mistajam_wed.ra?start=9300

You need to open this link in RealPlayer by the way. It's the only player that will play it I'm afraid. I've spent countless hours looking for an alternative without success. MPlayer can't play it, even though it supports rtsp streams. It's something to do with the way the streams are encoded. 

Enjoy the bass ;)

BBC 1Xtra Drum n Bass top 10

I had some trouble listening to the BCC Drum n Bass top 10 this week. The BBC was telling me that iPlayer couldn't find the recording when I pressed the "listen now" link on the DnB chart page.

Oh well, luckilly I still had a rtsp link in my RealPlayer favourites and was able to play directly from RealPlayer. The BBC isn't too keen on their streams being played directly through  RealPlayer; something to do with it not being all that kind to their servers. But if it's the only way.. :)

Here's the direct rtsp link.

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/1xtra/mistajam_wed.ra?start=9300

You need to open this link in RealPlayer by the way. It's the only player that will play it I'm afraid. I've spent countless hours looking for an alternative without success. MPlayer can't play it, even though it supports rtsp streams. It's something to do with the way the streams are encoded. 

Enjoy the bass ;)

Embedding a tune from imeem

I've been hunting about a bit for an easy (and free!) way to embed music into a web site.
I just signed up for imeem, a social music and video sharing site, and I've chosen to embed the lovely bit of drum n bass below to see how it looks in the post :)

Hope you enjoy the tones ;)

Embedding a tune from imeem

I've been hunting about a bit for an easy (and free!) way to embed music into a web site.
I just signed up for imeem, a social music and video sharing site, and I've chosen to embed the lovely bit of drum n bass below to see how it looks in the post :)

Hope you enjoy the tones ;)

Smashing breakthrough this morning!

I'm a very happy bunny this morning. Not that you'd know it to look at me tho, hunched over my laptop with headphones on and a glazed slightly moody look on my face...!
Anyway, I'll get to the point, and why I'm a happy bunny.
I finally managed to find a way to play BBC archived radio on my laptop.
You see, the special thing about my laptop is that I don't have admin rights and so can't install programs like normal people. That means any program I use has to be a portable program that doesn't actually need to be installed. (ok, some programs install, but not all).

The program in question for the BBC archived radio streams is of course Realplayer. This has to be installed, and not only that, your browser needs to recognise the plugin so that when you press play on the online BBC radio, it knows what to do!

1.
So let's cut to the chase. I found this fabulous portable Realplayer HERE.
It's a fully fledged version of Realplayer 11 as a single executable.

2.
Then I sparked up the BBC radio page, the one with my fave DnB top 10 show. Click HERE to go straight to the radio page.

3.
Then I used the UnPlug Firefox extension to show me what media links were floating around on the page. Well, UnPlug found a single link to an RPM file. So I downloaded this file and opened it up in Textpad. There was a single long rtsp address!

4.
Opened up my standalone Realplayer and opened the rtsp link. BINGO :) I was a happy bunny cos the 1Xtra DnB chart started playing for like the first time ever! (oh yeah, I had to change the default directories in the Realplayer settings cos my no-admin-rights pc wouldn't write to the default ones.)

All in all a complete, blinding success.

Shouts go out to the genius that created the standalone Realplayer and the UnPlug Firefox extension!!

I'm outta here to listen to some other archived BBC radio streams. Oh Yeah!!

EDIT:
By the way, if you somehow manage to break Realplayer by fiddling around with the Settings like I did just a moment ago, you'll probably need to delete the application data stored at:
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thinstall\RealJukebox 1.0
(where [username] is your windows login name)

Smashing breakthrough this morning!

I'm a very happy bunny this morning. Not that you'd know it to look at me tho, hunched over my laptop with headphones on and a glazed slightly moody look on my face...!
Anyway, I'll get to the point, and why I'm a happy bunny.
I finally managed to find a way to play BBC archived radio on my laptop.
You see, the special thing about my laptop is that I don't have admin rights and so can't install programs like normal people. That means any program I use has to be a portable program that doesn't actually need to be installed. (ok, some programs install, but not all).

The program in question for the BBC archived radio streams is of course Realplayer. This has to be installed, and not only that, your browser needs to recognise the plugin so that when you press play on the online BBC radio, it knows what to do!

1.
So let's cut to the chase. I found this fabulous portable Realplayer HERE.
It's a fully fledged version of Realplayer 11 as a single executable.

2.
Then I sparked up the BBC radio page, the one with my fave DnB top 10 show. Click HERE to go straight to the radio page.

3.
Then I used the UnPlug Firefox extension to show me what media links were floating around on the page. Well, UnPlug found a single link to an RPM file. So I downloaded this file and opened it up in Textpad. There was a single long rtsp address!

4.
Opened up my standalone Realplayer and opened the rtsp link. BINGO :) I was a happy bunny cos the 1Xtra DnB chart started playing for like the first time ever! (oh yeah, I had to change the default directories in the Realplayer settings cos my no-admin-rights pc wouldn't write to the default ones.)

All in all a complete, blinding success.

Shouts go out to the genius that created the standalone Realplayer and the UnPlug Firefox extension!!

I'm outta here to listen to some other archived BBC radio streams. Oh Yeah!!

EDIT:
By the way, if you somehow manage to break Realplayer by fiddling around with the Settings like I did just a moment ago, you'll probably need to delete the application data stored at:
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thinstall\RealJukebox 1.0
(where [username] is your windows login name)

BBC - 1Xtra - Drum and Bass - UKG vs. D&B MC Face Off

BBC - 1Xtra - Drum and Bass - UKG vs. D&B MC Face Off

* Watch the video
* Look at the photos


Take 3 D&B MCs and 3 UKG MCs, get them to spit over three rounds of different beats and see who chats the best!

D&B team:
DJ Sappo (Captain)
Skibadee
MC Fun
MC Riddla

UKG team:
Richie Vibe Vee (Captain)
D.E.Velopment
Bashy
Doom Man

Round 1: MCs chat over their own flows.
Round 2: UKG MCs on D&B beats and vice versa.
Round 3: Both sets of MCs go over alien riddims.

BBC - 1Xtra - Drum and Bass - UKG vs. D&B MC Face Off

BBC - 1Xtra - Drum and Bass - UKG vs. D&B MC Face Off

* Watch the video
* Look at the photos


Take 3 D&B MCs and 3 UKG MCs, get them to spit over three rounds of different beats and see who chats the best!

D&B team:
DJ Sappo (Captain)
Skibadee
MC Fun
MC Riddla

UKG team:
Richie Vibe Vee (Captain)
D.E.Velopment
Bashy
Doom Man

Round 1: MCs chat over their own flows.
Round 2: UKG MCs on D&B beats and vice versa.
Round 3: Both sets of MCs go over alien riddims.