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Trying out Songbird

Trying out Songbird

March 2, 2009 2 Responses Shortlink

It’s amazing what can be done with a code base: the Gecko core of Firefox has been morphed into a music player called Songbird. On my Ubuntu machine, Rhythmbox has been my audio player of choice but the newcomer could [...]

Firefox 3, RealPlayer, Ubuntu and BBC’s iPlayer

June 17, 2008 4 Responses Shortlink

With the record attempt due today for Firefox 3 downloads, I thought that it would be a good time for me to update my advice for getting BBC’s iPlayer going in Firefox running on Ubuntu. First, you need RealPlayer 11 [...]

An option for when BBC’s iPlayer will not allow you to “Listen Again”

June 14, 2008 Leave a response Shortlink

Following my move to Firefox 3, the BBC’s iPlayer became problematical again. I eventually sorted it after a fashion but I am noting an option for the frustrated before talking more about that. Finding the links to the ram files [...]

Getting BBC iPlayer going on Ubuntu

January 27, 2008 6 Responses Shortlink

Following on from my earlier musings of the subject, I finally have got the BBC’s iPlayer going on my Ubuntu set up. To do this, I needed to get my hands on the plug-in files nphelix.so and nphelix.xpt. Once that [...]

iPod, identified

December 9, 2007 Leave a response Shortlink

Plug in an iPod to a PC running Ubuntu and it will recognise what it has got. That act mounts the player as a hard drive and fires up the Rhythmbox Music Player. The usual file transfer capabilities are available [...]

It isn’t all iTunes in the UK

December 8, 2007 Leave a response Shortlink

The iTunes store was a breath of fresh air following an experience of several OD2 offerings; broken downloads were a regular nuisance but that may have been down to my not having a broadband connection at the time. Its seamless [...]