Never done this before, but just listened to Springsteen on R2 ‘live’ through the internet and the streaming was pants. A lot of stuttering and changes in sound quality during programme.
Is this normal or am I doing something wrong.
Just done a speedtest on my connection – 6805kbps, so not too shabby, and my router stats doesn’t show any disconnections in the last couple of hours.

I didn’t listen to it all as I was recording it with ‘audacity’ to put on the MP3. If I record it from iplayer listen again, will it have a more stable stream?

Quite often people will rip from a DAB tuner or Sky box and do a pretty decent job. I use a site called themixingbowl.org and that has lots of dance based shows, ripped at pretty high quality. Try checking out the torrent sites to see whats already out there – let someone else do the work.

I have this with owt from BBC. Tinternet speed is ok, and the stream is well below my actual throughput speed, but it’s shite. As for iPlayer; I’ve given up. I know other streaming video works fine, ‘cos YouTube’s ok, as are the Chinese footy streams I watch. Maybe down to BBC servers or my ISP throttling BBC stuff or something.

BBC streams are probably 64 or 128. They won’t have the bandwidth to stream to suit people with high speed connections.

Get a cheap DAB and connect it to your comp. Choose your recording format and software and voila. £50 for a DAB and a decent quality patch. Job done.