Good programs featuring piping on RTE this past week. Both Ceili House and The Late session. Ceili House highlighted the release of tunes of Leo Rowsome, with interviews with Leo’s daughter Helena and with Kevin and others. Recordings of Kevin and several from Leo off old 78s.
Rick
Sorry,
Forgot to add the URL. From the page below, you can also find links to The Late Session. Enjoy! 
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/weekend/ceilihouse/
Rick
The link to listen to the show doesn’t work for me. Does this only work when the show is actually airing?
Thx,
djm
Those shows are available for download for up to a week after the show. Mine comes through “RealOne Player” and only takes a few seconds to retrieve an entire hour’s worth of music…which I sometimes plug directly into the CD recorder for playback. It really has good quality played on a good system.
There’s a couple brothers on The Late Session today that are piping and fiddling together, and being interviewed. If I remember correctly, their last name is Neff, or O’Neff…or something like that. They were quite good and remeinded me of a tune I need to learn off that first Bothy album.
http://www.rte.ie/rams/radio/latest/rte-ceilihouse.smil
works fine here.
I am listening right now.
Hmmm? 
No it doesn’t need to be airing. I can listen to it anytime. I use Real Player to listen in and have no problem. Some have said they must download it and play it back. What player do you use?
Rick
If you’re talking about me, Rick Hall, I run a line from the computer into my RCA CDRW140 Dual Tray Recorder, and listen to the program through the large sound system while it’s recording (burning) direct onto a CD…which I simply hit “pause” if it’s something I don’t want, and resume for the good tunes. I can play this CD back later on any CD player. I don’t save it on the computer…waste of space.
And you’re right…RealOne Player lets you download in seconds, for playback, or listen to the radio “live.” After downloading, you can advance it to the very part of the program you want to listen to, like up to 41 min. 30 sec., where Mick O’Brien was playing last week, and skip the first 41 minutes.
Nope. RealOne always says the page is unavailable. QuickTime finds the page, but is unable to play a .smil for some reason. Guess I’ll have to miss the show.
djm
djm, if you have everything set up right, including the latest updated, supported, activated, version of RealOne Player, it should work. RealPlayer has changed, becoming RealOne Player. Older versions are not supported by newer systems, and older systems may not support newer version of ROP.
My player is approx 4"x5" on the screen when reduced to miniture size. There’s a free download version here http://uk.real.com/freeplayer_r1p.html
This link should match a version with a particular system.
http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html
This link from the post above takes me directly to the program through RealOne Player…I don’t click anywhere else, the program just starts playing, almost immediately.
http://www.rte.ie/rams/radio/latest/rte-ceilihouse.smil
This other link from a post above takes me to the opening page of RTE where you chose Ceili House from the side bar menu. You find this guys pic on the pages. http://www.rte.ie/radio1/weekend/ceilihouse/
Then, you click on the headphones, or “Hear the show” to activate RealOne Player. It then downloads the program.
If you’re on a dialup connection expect a long delay before seeing the media as the buffer must fill before the player kicks-in.
Nope. I’m running RealOne 2.0 on WinXP over DSL. When I try to hit the link from within my Netscape 7.1 browser, QuickTime comes up with an image of a broken movie frame, even though I have turned smil off in QuickTime. If I just copy the link and paste it into RealOne’s URL box, it comes back saying the page is unavailable.
Isn’t it fun the way all these competing applications try and f*** each other over, with the end result that none of them work?
djm
I wonder if Internet Explorer would work (that’s what I’m using), rather than Netscape.
Had the same problem DJM with Quick time trying to play the file..I right clicked the URL and saved it to a folder, the opened it from there and Real Oneplayed the file…
Mike
You need to associate the file type you are referencing with the right player. RealPlayer is the one in this case but Windows Media Player will work well too.
Patrick.
PS - Don’t tell anyone but there is an archive of this stuff at www.UilleannObsession.com/links_radio.html
DJM…
Try this:
rtsp://streaming2.rte.ie/2004/0117/17012004rte-ceilihouse.rm
Rick, nope, but thanks for trying.
Pat’s UO link works fine, both streaming and mp3 versions. Maybe you should go and straighten RTÉ out on how to do this stuff properly, Pat.
Thx,
djm
Oh I’ve tried… they’re not having any of it though 
They used to allow downloading of files as well as streaming, it’s a shame they don’t do that anymore. It’d be no hassle for them to archive this stuff and have it available online.. all they’d need is a few nice big hard drives and everyone would be on the pigs back. There are probably some sort of licencing laws involved or something?
PD.
I had an interesting conversation last weekend with Peter Browne about this. He said the two biggest things that are affecting RTÉ’s ability to make their many recordings more available is the shrinking amount of public (i.e. government) support, and the need for legal permissions.
On the first issue, RTÉ gets its prime support from radio licensing. The government doesn’t think RTÉ’s license includes distribution. So, if you have any CDs or videos from RTÉ, hang on to them, because there soon will be no more. The government has told them to get out of this business.
On the second issue, many trad musicians had no children, and their spouses are no longer alive, so it is difficult to locate a family member to gain permission to release the recorded mateial. In order to make recordings available as downloadable files, or CDs, or videos or whatever, RTÉ needs to search out the musicians’ families to something ridiculous like the 21st cousin in order to ensure they are cannot be sued. The cost to do so is prohibitive, so as much as RTÉ may like to make the music available, they are legally constrained as to what they can or cannot do.
Not what I wanted to hear, but that’s reality.
djm