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Removing DRM from BBC Radio downloads ?

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rick

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May 18, 2015, 11:37:11 AM5/18/15
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I download occasional BBC Radio programmes for listening to in the car.

These auto delete after 30 days due to DRM

Is there a simple way of removing the DRM or re-saving the audio file as
MP3 without the DRM ?

Adrian

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May 18, 2015, 12:20:55 PM5/18/15
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get-iplayer

Corporal Jones

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May 18, 2015, 1:51:48 PM5/18/15
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You could try
Get I Player

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer

or have a look here.

http://tpkradiolinks.tumblr.com/index

sam

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May 18, 2015, 2:25:09 PM5/18/15
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"rick" <rick_hughes@_remove_btconnect.com> wrote in message
news:mjd0v2$o97$1...@speranza.aioe.org...
http://lifehacker.com/5954466/how-do-i-get-rid-of-the-drm-on-my-ebooks-and-video

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Sam Plusnet

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May 18, 2015, 4:46:11 PM5/18/15
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In article <mjd3h2$v0r$2...@speranza.aioe.org>, tooma...@gmail.com
says...
Plus Web PVR Manager - if you're running under Windows.

It makes life much easier.

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Sam

Dave Liquorice

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May 18, 2015, 7:13:05 PM5/18/15
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On Mon, 18 May 2015 16:37:09 +0100, rick wrote:

> I download occasional BBC Radio programmes for listening to in the car.
>
> These auto delete after 30 days due to DRM

One of my NAS's downloads MP3's of various BBC Radio programmes as
plain MP3's they stay until I delete them. I don't know of any "self
destruct" mechanisium in the MP3 specification.

I guess you are downloading via the BBCs iPlayer thing. Now that does
enforce the stupid 30 days and 7 day rules. I think it also places
the downloads within a DRM wrapper.

> Is there a simple way of removing the DRM or re-saving the audio file as
> MP3 without the DRM ?

A simple way is to download using the RSS Feed URL's found at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts

A bit more complex is getiplayer, I use that for downloading TV
programmes to a Raspberry Pi running Kodi/OSMC media player.

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CB

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May 19, 2015, 2:57:43 AM5/19/15
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On 19/05/2015 00:10, Dave Liquorice wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2015 16:37:09 +0100, rick wrote:
>
>> I download occasional BBC Radio programmes for listening to in the car.
>>
>> These auto delete after 30 days due to DRM
>
> One of my NAS's downloads MP3's of various BBC Radio programmes as
> plain MP3's they stay until I delete them. I don't know of any "self
> destruct" mechanisium in the MP3 specification.
>
> I guess you are downloading via the BBCs iPlayer thing. Now that does
> enforce the stupid 30 days and 7 day rules. I think it also places
> the downloads within a DRM wrapper.
>
>> Is there a simple way of removing the DRM or re-saving the audio file as
>> MP3 without the DRM ?
>
> A simple way is to download using the RSS Feed URL's found at:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts

BBC Podcast download is not really suitable for many radio programmes -
it works fine for a lot of speech based Radio 4 programmes but if the
radio programme contains much music that is often stripped out in the
podcast - leaving you with just the speech bits. Bit of a cheek calling
it a podcast IMHO.

>
> A bit more complex is getiplayer, I use that for downloading TV
> programmes to a Raspberry Pi running Kodi/OSMC media player.
>

And it works just as well for radio to download the simple MP3 file. (as
someone else has said the Web PVR manager works a treat in windows)


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CB

Mike Tomlinson

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May 21, 2015, 6:27:54 AM5/21/15
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En el artículo <MPG.2fc45fe81...@news.plus.net>, Sam Plusnet
<n...@home.com> escribió:

>Plus Web PVR Manager - if you're running under Windows.

This seems to have stopped working - refreshing the cache brings up 0
programmes. Might just be me?

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Mike Tomlinson

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May 21, 2015, 6:40:34 AM5/21/15
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En el artículo <CdgjTLA0...@jasper.org.uk>, Mike Tomlinson
<mi...@jasper.org.uk> escribió:

>This seems to have stopped working - refreshing the cache brings up 0
>programmes. Might just be me?

Scratch that, installed the latest version and now OK.

rick

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May 21, 2015, 9:03:50 AM5/21/15
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I'll get it and try

rick

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May 21, 2015, 9:06:09 AM5/21/15
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I have i-player .... does get-iplayer allow download and remove DRM ?

rick

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May 21, 2015, 9:09:02 AM5/21/15
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On 21/05/2015 11:27, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> En el artículo <MPG.2fc45fe81...@news.plus.net>, Sam Plusnet
> <n...@home.com> escribió:
>
>> Plus Web PVR Manager - if you're running under Windows.
>
> This seems to have stopped working - refreshing the cache brings up 0
> programmes. Might just be me?
>


what does Web PVR manager provide that get-iplayer doesn't ?

Adrian

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May 21, 2015, 9:53:15 AM5/21/15
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On Thu, 21 May 2015 14:06:05 +0100, rick wrote:

>>> I download occasional BBC Radio programmes for listening to in the
>>> car.
>>>
>>> These auto delete after 30 days due to DRM
>>>
>>> Is there a simple way of removing the DRM or re-saving the audio file
>>> as MP3 without the DRM ?

>> get-iplayer

> I have i-player .... does get-iplayer allow download and remove DRM ?

Yes. That's exactly what it does.

Sam Plusnet

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May 21, 2015, 5:12:30 PM5/21/15
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In article <mjkldb$b5l$3...@speranza.aioe.org>,
rick_hughes@_remove_btconnect.com says...
An easy to use front end which means you don't have to wrestle with the
Command Line stuff in order to download Radio & TV programmes.

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Sam

rick

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May 22, 2015, 9:20:43 AM5/22/15
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OK ... that sounds better, I'll take al ook

therustyone

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May 22, 2015, 10:44:03 AM5/22/15
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You could try Total Recorder
http://www.highcriteria.com/

It's not free but I've used it for 15 years.

It records off the PC sound card or software and is also good for capturing music/speech off a microphone or USB audio interface.

rusty
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