Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

The BBC has a wide range of programmes available in their archives, largely in RealPlayer format. I have written ‘realdump’, which will grab the data from one of these streams, and dump it to a WAV or AIFF file.

Firstly, I’d like to be able to dump it to AAC, rather than have to convert them myself.

Secondly, I’d like to be able to grab any of the meta-data that comes with the track.

Thirdly, I’d like to make a script that combs through a site, grabbing all of the data.

Good to see, the ABC has some PodCasts, but not all of the types of programs I’m likely to want. Radio National seems to be doing a fair bit of it though.

Update: http://www.audiocoding.com/ has a CLI AAC encoder.

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I blogged some time (in fact exactly a month) ago about BBC Radio 3’s Beethoven special, and have just noticed a couple of extra tracks up on the Listen Again page:

• Between The Ears: a reworking of the 5th Symphony.
• Beethoven or Bust: ???

Note to self: snaffle these before they are gone…

Update: other stuff available.

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/beethoven/btebeethoven.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/beethoven/beethovenorbust.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/mahlerone1.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/mahlerone2.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/mahlerone3.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/mahlerone4.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/CJ_tchaik_manfred1.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/CJ_tchaik_manfred2.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/CJ_tchaik_manfred3.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/CJ_tchaik_manfred4.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/CJ_tchaik4_1.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/CJ_tchaik4_2.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/CJ_tchaik4_3and4.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/CJ_tchaik5_1.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/CJ_tchaik5_2.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/CJ_tchaik5_3.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/classical/CJ_tchaik5_4.rm

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When I went to my blog today to see if there were any new comments, I was unable to see anything.

I received an error:

It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.

Clicking on the link had no effect. What you need to do is:

1. Login to your blog. Even if you cannot see the front page, you can go to /wp-admin/
2. Edit any post from your blog. You do not need to make any changes.
3. Save the post, and the database will have fixed itself.

It seems so be an annoying bug in the WordPress Multi-User code. It has happened before, and it doesn’t seem to happen to everyone as anyone in the process of posting when the bug appears will automatically fix it without realising.

I don’t know what time it occurred at, whether it was when a visitor placed a comment, or what. But it seems to be all fixed now.

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