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Listed below are comments made by Society between Saturday, 14th February 2009 and Sunday, 12th April 2009.

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Coyopa's guts 1:23pm on 12 Apr 2009 "Book of the Week isn't quite the same when the opening episode just isn't available in "Listen Again""

Actually, I note that a substitute is presented at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qftk

However, I'm not convinced that Episode 3 of "The Decisive Moment" from 4th March is an entirely acceptable substitute.

I can cope with the changes to R4's website style but had rather hoped that content wouldn't be trashed along the way.
Coyopa's guts 2:03pm on 11 Apr 2009 "how come days of radio content go missing on the iPhone?"

The incidence of this seems much higher of late.

Wednesday 1st had some bits missing, Friday 3rd April had larger chunks missing and Monday 6th seems little better.

It's not just the iPhone encodings. Book of the Week isn't quite the same when the opening episode just isn't available in "Listen Again" (at a time when there are "3 days left to listen" for Episode 2)! Even unofficial ra files don't seem to be present.

Given that "Producers can schedule their radio programmes to be available for Listen Again, by selecting the times/days and repeat patterns" it seems that it can all go wrong due to human error/carelessness at a very early stage with no obvious feedback mechanism for frustrated listeners when stuff is simply missing.
Better audio for BBC Radio online 8:56pm on 14 Feb 2009 Ignore my post #34. I found a clue (should have researched more before posting) and have now found the .ra files named according to the new conventions in the various coyopa hierarchies.
Better audio for BBC Radio online 1:53pm on 14 Feb 2009 Does this development explain why .ra streams seem to be no longer available?

Perhaps it's just that such files are no longer required by BBC for any other purposes so transcoding has totally ceased and the timing is coincidental.

I have seen no mention made so don't know whether the current non-existence of such files is intentional or an oversight.

Any clues available?

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