As long as I can remember, the BBC’s online music streaming service has restricted the control you have on playback streams, restricting the embedded realplayer controls to allow you pause, skip 5 minutes or skip 15 and change the volume. I can understand the legal obligations they may have, but from a piracy perspective stopping people skipping tracks is irrelevant, its only use is as a measure to stop people re-listening to the same track without having to go back to the start each time.
The controls on Mac OS X are less restrictive, but still restrict you to pause, fast forward or stop, however some simple javascript manipulation of the page can enable the regular RealPlayer controls, complete with a seek-bar.
Bookmark either download the source file or view the bookmarklet source. Unfortunately blogger won’t let me create an actual bookmarklet link, so you will manually have to save the bookmarklet into a bookmark in your browser.
Categories: Programming
Tags: BBC, Hack, Javascript, Programming, Radio
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