Filed under: iPod Family, Podcasts, iPhone
BBC introduces iPhone-optimized Podcast Page
The iPhone mobile music store doesn't serve up podcasts, so where are you gonna go for a fresh hot bowl of Auntie Beeb? Why, to the BBC itself, silly. The BBC's radio labs blog just announced a new iPhone-savvy webpage that offers simple phone and iPod touch browsing.
If you're on a touch or iPhone, you can just go to bbc.co.uk/podcasts and save yourself some extra typing. The site recognizes when you're visiting from an iPhone and they plan to expand this service to other hand-held devices.
Thanks, Chris
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Laurence said 4:18PM on 11-14-2007
OMG This is FRICKIN' AWESOME... i've always wished i could get my BBC news podcast updated on the road.
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Laurence said 4:18PM on 11-14-2007
THrough this I also figured out that you can listen to any podcast by entering in the podcast feed address into safari and then clicking on the most recent podcast and it'll launch in Quicktime on the iPod Touch without the need to cconnect to iTunes....
is this a discovered thing or no? Because this is the first I've ever heard of it, to listen to podcasts on the go!
example, enter the address for CBC hourly news into safari on iPod Touch/iPhone:
feed://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/hourlynews.xml
then click on the first feed, and then u'll see the "play" button.
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andy said 4:35PM on 11-14-2007
bbc: please add mary anne hobbs' show on radio 1!
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Charles said 4:36PM on 11-14-2007
Wow! I love the BBC podcasts and getting this content without having to synch with iTunes is fantastic! Thank you BBC!
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Scott said 3:18AM on 11-19-2007
Fantastic Stuff...
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DrWho said 6:43PM on 11-14-2007
Excellent - bookmarked!
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Blair said 6:02PM on 11-14-2007
This is brilliant! Fresh content on command, loving some of the music, funky house, etc.
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Simon said 8:02PM on 11-15-2007
BBC well done on the site, it looks and works great!!
BBC I pay lots of money for the privilege of legally watching your channels now give UK Mac users the iPlayer, NOW!!
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George said 8:24PM on 11-14-2007
This is great... but it's only fully usable with true 3G... But still nice.
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jesseq said 10:10AM on 11-15-2007
this isnt the mobile internet
its the internet internet
only on the iphone.
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Tom said 11:12AM on 11-15-2007
Do I have to be on wi-fi to listen to these? I can get the page to load, but no play button.
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George said 1:29PM on 11-15-2007
@10: Something seems to have changed on the BBC site. The playe button is indeed gone.... so you can't really download any show at this point.
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Andy said 4:31AM on 11-16-2007
This is crap, nowhere can I click on anything to start it palaying, it just looks nice! WTF where is a play button!!!!!!
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Chris Johnson said 5:16AM on 11-19-2007
Hi Guys,
Sorry some of you can't get this to work. It's worth noting that currently this is not supported over EDGE in the UK. It seems that O2 have a proxy server than replaces content on the fly to minimise bandwidth usage. This is why all the images are low quality and the play button doesn't appear, as the MP3 is stripped from the page.
Hopefully O2 will change there policy soon.
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