JasonB Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Have listen again playing at 245kbps average!, and the latest version of relplayer lets you record the streamaswe llahahahahh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadrant Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 I guess that's better than the 0.005k bitrate they have on the "listen again" feature. But why is everything "i" these days? It started with the iPod, and now we've got the iPhone, iPlayer, iMac, iBook, iTools, iVillage, iTunes... how about they launch the iVEHADENOUGHOFTHISSTUPID'i'MONIKER? Also, everything is only available for 7 days after broadcast. What do they do with the recordings after then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted February 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Keep them in the massive bbc archives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberduck Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 It bamboozles me how much stuff must be stored in archive (not just R1 shows). The amount of paperwork etc. that must be stored in boxes 'just incase' is daft. I was watching a episode of [cough cough] countryfile a couple of weeks ago where they were in this salt mine in Cheshire. Once an area of the mine had been fully excavated it was turned into a massive underground storage facility. There were just s**t loads of boxes on huge racking systems. The guy reckoned that libraries and people use the area to store old books. We have funny theories in todays world of how to store stuff. We hide books in mines and fill massive holes in the ground with our rubbish. Not very sustainable but I guess it follows the 'out of sight out of mind theory' . I was amazed when I saw the article on the news about the problem in one of the American states (may have been California) where the dumps were full and the binmen went on strike. The streets were just crammed (literally) with rubbish and the locals were rioting over it. They were even going to the extreme of torching it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted February 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 BTw after stream cutting out a few times it settled on 70-8 k pfftt. Theres ahuge mine in Bath which isdivied upand used by different business' including a wine company and a archiving company (for papoerwork and files) being two of them, both I have briefly worked for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neuro Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 I was amazed when I saw the article on the news about the problem in one of the American states (may have been California) where the dumps were full and the binmen went on strike. The streets were just crammed (literally) with rubbish and the locals were rioting over it. They were even going to the extreme of torching it. I think that was in Italy too, more recently? I'm more intrigued as to how rapidly this site is expanding, with all the quality new audio we can store on this website for everyone, as well as all the tracklistings... The only downside to all this is that to back up the website takes up so much space - I even bought a new external hard drive yesterday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberduck Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 I think that was in Italy too, more recently? Yeah think that's the one I mean Tim. The amount of audio and the memory requirements for this site must be mental. I don't understand technology sometimes. It baffles me. :oddcake: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissie Brown Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 Yeah think that's the one I mean Tim. The amount of audio and the memory requirements for this site must be mental. I don't understand technology sometimes. It baffles me. :oddcake: Me too :oddcake: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KR Tech Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 Yeah think that's the one I mean Tim. The amount of audio and the memory requirements for this site must be mental. I don't understand technology sometimes. It baffles me. :oddcake: The hungriest resource eater by far is the MySQL database which stores and runs this messageboard; it is forever getting larger and larger and I imagine if/when we do move over to a dedicated server it will be because of this growth. The actual disk space for all the tracklists and other components only amounts to 8GB tops. For convenience and bandwidth issues we locate all our audio for this messageboard in Denmark with thanks to FuzzY-LogiC's dedicated server over there for which we are eternally grateful. On the other hand, the BBC's various archives for sound and vision are too huge to imagine, but then again they are split up into different sections. Their sound archives go right back to the early days of radio, but I believe that since about 2003 they no longer archive every single minute of every single radio show, at least, not on Radio 1 (i.e. the quality is just not worth saving!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberduck Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 ^ Interesting :winkthumbsup: ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissie Brown Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 Many thanks Fuzzy Logic for the downloads-much appreciated. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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