{"id":230,"date":"2015-03-13T23:32:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2015-03-13T23:32:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:32:58","slug":"bbc-iplayer-radio-9-released-still-to-fix-aac-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/bbc-iplayer-radio-9-released-still-to-fix-aac-support\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC iPlayer Radio 9 released: still to fix AAC support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary: both WebbIE BBC programs have now been updated to the new system, but they may not work yet if you have on Windows 7 or earlier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I released <a href=\"\/bbciplayerradio\">BBC iPlayer Radio 9.<\/a> This new version works again with the BBC on-demand seven-day radio catch-up service, after the BBC shut off the old Windows Media service. It works the same except that instead of playing a programme immediately, it has to download it to your computer first. This can take a while, but downloaded programmes are saved for the next seven days so you only have to do it once. <\/p>\n<p>However, there is another problem. The new <abbr title=\"Advanced Audio Codec\">AAC<\/abbr> format used by the BBC works just great on my Windows 8 machine. But lots of users have contacted me to say that they get only a couple of seconds of audio on their machines before it stops, and they report it for both BBC iPlayer Radio and <a href=\"\/bbcliveradio\">BBC Live Radio 2.<\/a> It looks like on older versions of Windows, or Windows Media Player, or the K and KM versions of Windows, the BBC programmes won&#8217;t play.<\/p>\n<p>Normally this is fixed by installing another piece of software called a <strong>codec<\/strong> or <strong>filter<\/strong> or <strong>plug-in<\/strong> and one user has reported exactly that. But until I get onto a Windows 7 machine next week in the test rig at work, I can&#8217;t confirm what versions of Windows are affected and I can&#8217;t identify the best plug-in to recommend.<\/p>\n<p>Until then you have two options, both of which are quite technical, I&#8217;m afraid:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Install another media player that does support AAC files, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/index.en_GB.html\">VLC<\/a>. Use BBC iPlayer Radio 9, and wait for the programme to download, then stop playing. Then open the File menu (Alt and F) and select the new menu entry, &#8220;Open in external media player&#8221;. This will launch whatever program Windows thinks handles AAC files &#8211; hopefully VLC.<\/li>\n<li>Try installing the codec that my user kindly suggested. I&#8217;m not naming him in case it goes wrong: remember, this is at your own risk! <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.orban.com\/1000\/Software\/setup_AAC_aacPlus_pluginbase_1_1_52.zip\">Orban AAC Plug-in<\/a> &#8211; zip of Windows installer exe, unzip and run.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both WebbIE BBC programs have now been updated to the new system, but they may not work yet if you have Windows 7 or earlier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,32],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blind","tag-bbc","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}