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Sunday, 8 April 2012
Saturday, 7 April 2012
County Cricket Commentaries on an iPhone or iPad
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Ok, because Apple are at war with Adobe, Microsoft, Java and everyone else it would seem, listening to county cricket on an iPhone or iPad is not as straightforward as you might expect but it is certainly possible. There are several ways to do it.... But what you can't do is just go to the BBC website and listen from there:
OK, there have been developments here since I wrote this:
(1) The method used to stream the commentaries from the BBC website now runs from Safari on you IOS/Android app. So you can just navigate to that and click play.
But this is still not as nice as listening with Tune-In (below)... however, just at the moment a Twitter user named @TuneInLiveEvent is regularly broadcasting the stream number for each county game which makes it dead easy to then just search TuneIn for Live Event xx, where x is your stream number. Checker her account out!!!
Using the free app Fstream.
Step one
You go the BBC commentary page and below the regular player is a link that says:
"Windows Media Version of this Stream"
Press and hold this on your iPhone/iPad and when the menu springs up note down the end of the web address which is written at the top of the menu.... It will be "....int17.asx" for example, having made a note of the number choose "copy".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/englandcms/livestreams/int17.asx
I'm sorry, I don't know if this works on non-Apple products. In that case I would suggest (although I don't know if it works, if you click on this "Windows Media Version of this Stream" link, it may take you to a page with that critical address above, which you can then note down or copy.
Step two
Favourites
Add new webradio
Type that int17.asx number in the name. Eg., "17"
Press and hold in the URL slot and then paste... This should paste in the full address you copied of the BBC website...
Save
Now go to play and select the stream you just created....
Now switch to your Fstream
Second Way: Using a 69p app
Fstream works OK, but the TuneIn app is way more sophisticated and this is what I use.
Step one
To start, you need to get hold of that URL address again as per "step one" in the Fstream method.
Step two
Now switch to The Tunein app. If you've got the stream number from above.... Find the search bar and simply type in "BBC live event xx" where xx is the stream number, generally between 1 and 20. The stream should appear below and you tap it. Job done!
Failing this...
Go to My Presets
Scroll to the bottom until you get to "Custom URL"
Push and hold to paste your full URL into the box:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/englandcms/livestreams/int5.asx for example
Then select the custom URL that appears below.
You should get sent back to the home page or My Presets section again....
Now your new custom stream will be playing, but it is not saved to your presets yet. On the iPad there is a little now paying window bottom left. Select that and then click the Add to Favourites button... (A love heart with a plus symbol). Now it will ask you to type in a sensible name (int5?) and save it for you.
Caveats
What has been going wrong so far this season is that the link which is held by the "Windows Media Version of this Stream" is actually wrong!!! That's just great. The only solution I have found so far is to then, over the weeks create presets for all 18 of the intxx.asx urls. (yes I am a cricket junkie!!!) and just go through them one by one until bingo, you here the dulcet tones of our commentary heros. For me it is the Essex guys of course, but should you support one of the rubbish teams like Kent, the same methods work.
Ok, because Apple are at war with Adobe, Microsoft, Java and everyone else it would seem, listening to county cricket on an iPhone or iPad is not as straightforward as you might expect but it is certainly possible. There are several ways to do it.... But what you can't do is just go to the BBC website and listen from there:
OK, there have been developments here since I wrote this:
(1) The method used to stream the commentaries from the BBC website now runs from Safari on you IOS/Android app. So you can just navigate to that and click play.
But this is still not as nice as listening with Tune-In (below)... however, just at the moment a Twitter user named @TuneInLiveEvent is regularly broadcasting the stream number for each county game which makes it dead easy to then just search TuneIn for Live Event xx, where x is your stream number. Checker her account out!!!
Second way is the easiest!!
First way: Using a Free AppUsing the free app Fstream.
Step one
You go the BBC commentary page and below the regular player is a link that says:
"Windows Media Version of this Stream"
Press and hold this on your iPhone/iPad and when the menu springs up note down the end of the web address which is written at the top of the menu.... It will be "....int17.asx" for example, having made a note of the number choose "copy".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/englandcms/livestreams/int17.asx
I'm sorry, I don't know if this works on non-Apple products. In that case I would suggest (although I don't know if it works, if you click on this "Windows Media Version of this Stream" link, it may take you to a page with that critical address above, which you can then note down or copy.
Step two
Favourites
Add new webradio
Type that int17.asx number in the name. Eg., "17"
Press and hold in the URL slot and then paste... This should paste in the full address you copied of the BBC website...
Save
Now go to play and select the stream you just created....
Now switch to your Fstream
Second Way: Using a 69p app
Fstream works OK, but the TuneIn app is way more sophisticated and this is what I use.
Step one
To start, you need to get hold of that URL address again as per "step one" in the Fstream method.
Step two
Now switch to The Tunein app. If you've got the stream number from above.... Find the search bar and simply type in "BBC live event xx" where xx is the stream number, generally between 1 and 20. The stream should appear below and you tap it. Job done!
Failing this...
Go to My Presets
Scroll to the bottom until you get to "Custom URL"
Push and hold to paste your full URL into the box:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/englandcms/livestreams/int5.asx for example
Then select the custom URL that appears below.
You should get sent back to the home page or My Presets section again....
Now your new custom stream will be playing, but it is not saved to your presets yet. On the iPad there is a little now paying window bottom left. Select that and then click the Add to Favourites button... (A love heart with a plus symbol). Now it will ask you to type in a sensible name (int5?) and save it for you.
Caveats
What has been going wrong so far this season is that the link which is held by the "Windows Media Version of this Stream" is actually wrong!!! That's just great. The only solution I have found so far is to then, over the weeks create presets for all 18 of the intxx.asx urls. (yes I am a cricket junkie!!!) and just go through them one by one until bingo, you here the dulcet tones of our commentary heros. For me it is the Essex guys of course, but should you support one of the rubbish teams like Kent, the same methods work.
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