July 3, 2004
Conspicuous Absence
I really like the radio feature of iTunes - despite having 6000 songs in my iTunes collection, sometimes it's nice to hear music selected and ordered by someone else. So I was extremely pleased and impressed to find that Virgin Radio are now listed as an iTunes radio stream.
It's not too surprising to find them there - after all, Virgin were playing around with Ogg format streams well over a year ago, and seem to be very much on the ball in this respect (perhaps because they broadcast with an AM licence, which few people listen to?). Just take a look at the formats they support: iTunes, MP3, Ogg, Quicktime, Windows Media, Real.
It's pretty disgusting that the publicly-funded BBC radio stations do not offer such great service. Not only do they not appear on iTunes, but they also only support proprietary streaming formats - predominantly Real at the moment, and some Windows Media.
Come on BBC - sort it out.
Posted by savs at July 3, 2004 3:44 PM