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<blockquote data-quote="Prospero" data-source="post: 747541" data-attributes="member: 113194">Cannot select alternate streams for BBC stationsFirstly, thank you so much Dukus for this excellent plug-in.Just one small issue I have with it. On RadioTime some stations are listed with more than one available stream. In particular, the BBC national network stations are available in 48k Windows Media and 128k AAC formats, for example here:<a href="http://tunein.com/radio/BBC-Radio-4-935-s25419/" target="_blank">BBC R4 - BBC Radio 4 93.5 FM London - Listen Online</a>I found that I could play the WM format streams in Windows Media player, but when I tried to use the RadioTime plugins I could not get MP to play BBC Radio 4. After installing and setting up AAC codecs I can now play Radio 4 with the plug-in, but it looks like it is using the 128k AAC stream and there is no way to select the alternate 48k WM stream.The issue is a little confused by the fact that the RadioTime plug-in only lists BBC Radio 4 once and says it is a 128k WM7/8/9 stream (which doesn't exist), but as I say, I'm pretty sure that what is actually getting played is the 128k AAC stream.Where alternate streams exist it would be good to see these listed separately and/or have options to filter them or turn them on/off individually. Or maybe just an option to always select the lowest or highest bit-rate stream, or a preference to use a particular format where available.The problem for me is that I listen to Radio 4 most of the day and would like to get rid of my old analogue radio. Radio 4 is a speech station and 48k WM format is perfectly adequate, but I can't select it at present in the plug-in. If I use 128k AAC instead this means &gt;1Gb a day of data download just to listen to the radio!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Prospero, post: 747541, member: 113194"] [b]Cannot select alternate streams for BBC stations[/b] Firstly, thank you so much Dukus for this excellent plug-in. Just one small issue I have with it. On RadioTime some stations are listed with more than one available stream. In particular, the BBC national network stations are available in 48k Windows Media and 128k AAC formats, for example here: [url=http://tunein.com/radio/BBC-Radio-4-935-s25419/]BBC R4 - BBC Radio 4 93.5 FM London - Listen Online[/url] I found that I could play the WM format streams in Windows Media player, but when I tried to use the RadioTime plugins I could not get MP to play BBC Radio 4. After installing and setting up AAC codecs I can now play Radio 4 with the plug-in, but it looks like it is using the 128k AAC stream and there is no way to select the alternate 48k WM stream. The issue is a little confused by the fact that the RadioTime plug-in only lists BBC Radio 4 once and says it is a 128k WM7/8/9 stream (which doesn't exist), but as I say, I'm pretty sure that what is actually getting played is the 128k AAC stream. Where alternate streams exist it would be good to see these listed separately and/or have options to filter them or turn them on/off individually. Or maybe just an option to always select the lowest or highest bit-rate stream, or a preference to use a particular format where available. The problem for me is that I listen to Radio 4 most of the day and would like to get rid of my old analogue radio. Radio 4 is a speech station and 48k WM format is perfectly adequate, but I can't select it at present in the plug-in. If I use 128k AAC instead this means >1Gb a day of data download just to listen to the radio! [/QUOTE]

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