Whats up with RTE Ceolnet?

Whistle
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Over the past little while , I’ve come to find RTE Ceolnet (Radio Ireland’s archive of traditional music recordings) indispensable for learning tunes, especially for getting some good examples of real traditional-style playing.

However, a little while ago, I kept getting “site not found” when trying to search the database. And lately, when I try to do a search, it prompts me for a username & password!

Anybody know whats up with Ceolnet and if/when it will get back to normal?

SteveB

2

Here’s the message I posted to RTE (the owners of ceolnet) on 7th August:

Please note that Ceolnet is broken.

Every 5 seconds I get a dialog box saying a runtime error has occurred in line 295 and it says “Error: Permission denied”.

I know I have the right software installed as I’ve used the website many times before without a problem.

Note that content appears to be streaming to my PC, but I get no sound.

About a week later the message changed. I now get:

Error: Line 291
Expected ‘;’

The site doesn’t make it very clear who to contact, as there’s no contact on the ceolnet site. However I did email the contact on the RTE website when I got the first error, but didn’t receive a reply.

The RTE contact is cleggp@rte.ie

Feel free mail him as well as we really need this site.

And I agree with you - the content is solid gold!

3

Just a quick update, it’s still not working, but I’ve mailed them again today.

I now get:

Error
A runtime error has occurred.
Do you wish to Debug?
Line: 285
Error: Expected’;’

And when I say “No”, I then get :

Error
A runtime error has occurred.
Do you wish to Debug?
Line: 291
Error: Expected’;’

I hope they get this fixed :confused:

4

What is the link to it just per chance it starts working properly again?
:roll:

5

I emailed and actually got a response:

Hi Don,

Peter Clegg, the Webmaster looks after Ceolnet. I cc’d him on this mail
and hopefully he should be able to get back to you with an answer soon.

Is Mise,
John Moylan


no answer yet. must be working on Irish time.

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It’s http://www.rte.ie/radio/ceolnet

Well done on at least getting a reply Don!