Problems with latvian broadcasts archive

[Wiktorio30Poland]

Dear users

Latvian Radio Klasika (LR 3) have a large archives with broadcasts dating from 2003 and 2008 year.
But from yesterday I have a problem to run the programmes with window media player. The player told me, that player cannot connect to the server. Also says, that the name of the server could be incorrect, or the server is busy. I would try later. But I am trying to run it from time to time, and the player permanently says the same.

If somebody could check up these archives and write what we can do, to listen to the programmes, I will be very grateful. Here are the links:

http://www.latvijasradio.lv/lv/lr/arhivs/?s=audio&d=21&m=4&y=2003&channel=3&keyword=

Try maybe the programme on 10:30 with music of Janis Kepitis (Jāņa Ķepīša mūzika). This programme was ok before some days, and now I can not listen to it.

http://www.latvijasradio.lv/program/3/2008/09/20080925.htm


Thanks for Yours attention and best regards.

Wiktorio30Poland

[Gauk]

"Windows Media Player cannot connect to the server. The server name might not be correct, the server might not be available, or your proxy settings might not be correct."

[guest54]

An interesting problem. First I tried this:

http://www.latvijasradio.lv/program

It shows a top-level index page, but nothing before 2008 . . .

So I tried 2009:

http://www.latvijasradio.lv/program/3/2009/index.htm

This correctly shows an index for 2009. So I clicked on the 29th of January 2009:

(1)  http://www.latvijasradio.lv/program/3/2009/01/20090129.htm

and it correctly shows the programmes for that day. There are two links for each programme.

So I tried this (from a left-hand link):

(2) http://rgen.radio.org.lv/radioreq?20090129C21002200

That returns a ram file called radioreq.ram, which contains the following data, and can be played:

rtsp://ier-r.latvijasradio.lv/cx0/20090129_2100_r3.rm?start=00:00&end=60:00
rtsp://ier-r.latvijasradio.lv/cx0/20090129_2200_r3.rm?start=00:00&end=01:00
--stop--

I also tried a cut-down link:

rtsp://ier-r.latvijasradio.lv/cx0/20090129_2100_r3.rm

and that by itself works correctly.

Next I tried one of the right-hand links:

mms://ier-w.latvijasradio.lv/pppy?20090129C210000220000

That does NOT work (at least on my system).

Turning now from 2009 to 2008, the link supplied by the original poster for 2008 is:

http://www.latvijasradio.lv/program/3/2008/09/20080925.htm

This gives a page similar to the line marked (1) above.

So - as I did above for 2009 - I next tried one of the left hand links:

http://rgen.radio.org.lv/radioreq?20080925C13101400

It looks similar to the line marked (2) above, and it also returns a ram file called radioreq.ram, which contains

rtsp://ier-r.latvijasradio.lv/cx2/20080925_1300_r3.rm?start=10:00&end=60:00
rtsp://ier-r.latvijasradio.lv/cx2/20080925_1400_r3.rm?start=00:00&end=01:00
--stop--

See the difference between this and the 2009 file? This one has cx2, and the 2009 file has cx0.

So I tried this radioreq.ram for 2008 - and it does NOT work.

Then I tried a tiny hack, replacing the cx2 with cx0:
 
rtsp://ier-r.latvijasradio.lv/cx0/20080925_1300_r3.rm

No, that too does not work!

Conclusion: it looks as though Latvian Radio has removed everything before 2009 (except half a year's index for 2008, which is no longer valid). Whether it is a permanent removal, or only temporary, only time will tell!

[guest145]

This is not the first time they've eliminated older portions of their archive, and without notice. Nothing to be done, as far I know.

[shamus]

Perhaps they have lapsed earlier catalogs, but think of the 4+ years they still have, many stations archive for a week at most, and many more not at all. I have noticed that if I right-click on the second of the times listed side by side on the program guide that there comes up an .asx download that I just click and then I can play the programs in RealAudio at least. I think I have written before that the newer music is often featured on Wednesday evenings like between 1800-2200 their time if you want to catch something live.