SOT (somewhat off-topic) - How to specify start time in Listen Again?
 

With YouTube, you can specify the time into the recording when it starts
playing by adding #t=xmym to the end of the url (where 'x' and 'y' are
the number of minutes and seconds from the start).

I thought you could do the same for the BBC 'Listen Again' urls - but it
doesn't work. However, I'm sure that you can do something similar. Can
anyone remember what it is?
--
Ian

SOT (somewhat off-topic) - How to specify start time in Listen Again?
 

"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
...
With YouTube, you can specify the time into the recording when it starts
playing by adding #t=xmym to the end of the url (where 'x' and 'y' are the
number of minutes and seconds from the start).

I thought you could do the same for the BBC 'Listen Again' urls - but it
doesn't work. However, I'm sure that you can do something similar. Can
anyone remember what it is?
--
Ian

That used to work when the BBC used Real Audio, but I'm not sure if it is
possible now. What are you trying to achieve?

PA

SOT (somewhat off-topic) - How to specify start time in ListenAgain?
 

Ian Jackson wrote:

With YouTube, you can specify the time into the recording when it starts
playing by adding #t=xmym to the end of the url (where 'x' and 'y' are
the number of minutes and seconds from the start).

I thought you could do the same for the BBC 'Listen Again' urls

You can for the TV URLs, e.g.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0176qr2/Great_Bear_Stakeout_Episode_2/?t=16m51s

It used to not work at all for the radio URLs, then I thought it worked
for a bit, but the seek accuracy was quite coarse, now it seems broken
again.

SOT (somewhat off-topic) - How to specify start time in Listen Again?
 

In message , Peter
Able writes

"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
...
With YouTube, you can specify the time into the recording when it starts
playing by adding #t=xmym to the end of the url (where 'x' and 'y' are the
number of minutes and seconds from the start).

I thought you could do the same for the BBC 'Listen Again' urls - but it
doesn't work. However, I'm sure that you can do something similar. Can
anyone remember what it is?
--
Ian

That used to work when the BBC used Real Audio, but I'm not sure if it is
possible now. What are you trying to achieve?

PA

I want to be able to specify a url link to a Listen Again website, so
that when anyone clicks on it, it opens where the item of interest is
(and not at the very beginning). For example, if there's something I
want to point someone to in the morning 'Today' programme, I don't want
it to start at 6am, and they then have to fiddle around with the
progress slider in order to find the start of something (say) starting
at 8:45am. It's obviously a convenience, rather than a necessity, but
it's a handy thing to be able to do.
--
Ian

SOT (somewhat off-topic) - How to specify start time in Listen Again?
 

In message , Andy
Burns writes
Ian Jackson wrote:

With YouTube, you can specify the time into the recording when it starts
playing by adding #t=xmym to the end of the url (where 'x' and 'y' are
the number of minutes and seconds from the start).

I thought you could do the same for the BBC 'Listen Again' urls

You can for the TV URLs, e.g.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...Stakeout_Episo
de_2/?t=16m51s

It used to not work at all for the radio URLs, then I thought it worked
for a bit, but the seek accuracy was quite coarse, now it seems broken
again.

Ah, thanks. That seems to work. It's the same as YouTube, except the '#'
is a '?'. I'll try it on the Listen Again radio item I want to refer
people to.
--
Ian

SOT (somewhat off-topic) - How to specify start time in Listen Again?
 

Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Andy Burns
writes
Ian Jackson wrote:

With YouTube, you can specify the time into the recording when it starts
playing by adding #t=xmym to the end of the url (where 'x' and 'y' are
the number of minutes and seconds from the start).

I thought you could do the same for the BBC 'Listen Again' urls

You can for the TV URLs, e.g.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...Stakeout_Episo
de_2/?t=16m51s

It used to not work at all for the radio URLs, then I thought it worked
for a bit, but the seek accuracy was quite coarse, now it seems broken again.

Ah, thanks. That seems to work. It's the same as YouTube, except the '#'
is a '?'. I'll try it on the Listen Again radio item I want to refer people to.


Do you know that in YouTube (on a PC at least) you can right click on the
progress bar at the appropriate time and get a URL for that moment? Dunno
if it works for iplayer or not.

Tim

SOT (somewhat off-topic) - How to specify start time in Listen Again?
 

In message
-septembe
r.org, Tim+ writes
Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Andy Burns
writes
Ian Jackson wrote:

With YouTube, you can specify the time into the recording when it starts
playing by adding #t=xmym to the end of the url (where 'x' and 'y' are
the number of minutes and seconds from the start).

I thought you could do the same for the BBC 'Listen Again' urls

You can for the TV URLs, e.g.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...Stakeout_Episo
de_2/?t=16m51s

It used to not work at all for the radio URLs, then I thought it worked
for a bit, but the seek accuracy was quite coarse, now it seems
broken again.

Ah, thanks. That seems to work. It's the same as YouTube, except the '#'
is a '?'. I'll try it on the Listen Again radio item I want to refer
people to.

No. No go with the radio.

Do you know that in YouTube (on a PC at least) you can right click on the
progress bar at the appropriate time and get a URL for that moment? Dunno
if it works for iplayer or not.

It works for YouTube (certainly with Firefox). I had forgotten about
that facility.

Right click, and you get the option of "Copy video URL at current time".
You can copy and paste the URL, which now has the 'time into' (in
seconds) added to the end (eg #t=107s).

It doesn't work with either the radio or TV iPlayer.
--
Ian

SOT (somewhat off-topic) - How to specify start time in Listen Again?
 

On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:59:16 +0100, Ian Jackson
wrote:

In message
-septembe
r.org, Tim+ writes
Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Andy Burns
writes
Ian Jackson wrote:

With YouTube, you can specify the time into the recording when it starts
playing by adding #t=xmym to the end of the url (where 'x' and 'y' are
the number of minutes and seconds from the start).

I thought you could do the same for the BBC 'Listen Again' urls

You can for the TV URLs, e.g.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...Stakeout_Episo
de_2/?t=16m51s

It used to not work at all for the radio URLs, then I thought it worked
for a bit, but the seek accuracy was quite coarse, now it seems
broken again.

Ah, thanks. That seems to work. It's the same as YouTube, except the '#'
is a '?'. I'll try it on the Listen Again radio item I want to refer
people to.

No. No go with the radio.

Maybe you could download it and then edit the audio so you only get
the bit you want. Then upload it somewhere.