{"id":115,"date":"2005-01-20T17:27:15","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T21:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/20\/cool-content-bad-format\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T19:40:30","slug":"cool-content-bad-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/20\/cool-content-bad-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool content, bad format"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sherlock'sSo, I’ve been digging around on the “cult” section of the BBC’s website<\/a>, and I’ve been finding all kinds of great stuff there.<\/p>\n

Today’s happy discovery is that they have a bunch of Sherlock Holmes stories<\/a> up, written by some great British SF (and SF-ish) writers, including Jon Courtenay Grimwood<\/a> (who I talked about earlier<\/a>) and Paul Cornell<\/a> (who wrote the excellent British Summertime<\/a>). I’ve also read other<\/a> works<\/a> by two of the other authors, who tend to work more in what used to be called horror: Kim Newman<\/a> and Christopher Fowler<\/a>. The last author’s name, Dominic Green<\/a>, rings no bells, but assuming I dig the story I may have to search out some other stuff.<\/p>\n

These stories are presented both as text (paginated, and in the helpful ‘print friendly’ format) and as readings. I do a lot of listening to audiobooks, and ‘radio play’ style content, on my MP3 player<\/a> while I drive, so I always love to find this kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the readings are presented in streaming Real Audio.<\/p>\n

So, in order to get this content onto my MP3 player<\/a> I would need to:<\/p>\n

1) Find a way to capture the stream to a local file<\/a> (which would probably violate the BBC terms of service or something)<\/p>\n

and then<\/p>\n

2) Convert the RealAudio to MP3<\/a> (which would probably require me to violate a bunch of Real’s agreements and misuse some of their patented code)<\/p>\n

Surely that’s a pain in the ass. Why BBC, why do you make me jump through these hoops? I mean… um… why do you make it so that I would hypothetically have to jump through these hoops. Yeah. That’s it. That’s what I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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