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TOPIC: BBC IPLAYER

An option for when BBC's iPlayer will not allow you to "Listen Again"

14^th June 2008

Following my move to Firefox 3, the BBC's iPlayer became problematical again. While I eventually sorted it after a fashion, I am noting an option for the frustrated before talking more about that. Finding the links to the ram files for the BBC's Listen Again service can be a nightmare because of the Beeb's reliance on JavaScript to cloak things up, so it's useful to find somewhere where things have been deconvoluted for us. That's The Beebotron. It's really meant for users of the mobile internet, yet it serves well for those times when a mismatch between Firefox and RealPlayer on Linux derails the more usual way to do things.

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