Comments on: New Capital 95.8 Website

By: howie b

howie b — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:01:23 +0000

yes it’s all out there but time after time i find myself drawn back to the original and still the best………….radio caroline

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:03:13 +0000

Re. Ashley Brown – there are no hoops to jump through to listen to Capital.

If you want to listen to the live stream ad-free, then simply use this link to listen in 128k quality: http://mediasrv-sov.musicradio.com/capitalradio

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:36:24 +0000

Apologies James,

One editor, one music producer, one featurers producer, one commercial producer, two assistant producers and three designer/developers. Nine people in total.

By: Ashley Brown

Ashley Brown — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:33:32 +0000

There’s one reason why the Virgin website blows all other stations out of the water for me: “More ways to tune in”. The sheer number of different options is incredibly useful, at least for me.

In fact, the primary reason I switched from Capital to Virgin was because Virgin gave me the ability to listen to their stream wherever I wanted to and didn’t obfuscate the links or try to be clever:
- MP3 stream for when I’m listening via my PDA on a wifi connection
- 192k multicast stream for when I’m sitting in my office
- Ogg for when I want to get in touch with my geek side
- RealPlayer for the terminally brain-dead

I stopped listening to Capital when my Wavefinder died and their website insisted I jump through hoops to find a link to paste into a media player. I don’t want the adverts, or indeed a browser window open all the time.

I listen to radio because I want witty banter and good music. Most stations – for reasons I don’t understand – make it difficult to listen, instead dazzling you with crap content (Virgin is also guilty of this, but at least the listen links are easy to find).

By: Robin Pembrooke

Robin Pembrooke — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:53:00 +0000

Thanks for the attention folks! I’d agree with both of you by the way – whilst this is much better than before, it’s just a first step! Watch this space

By: John Handelaar

John Handelaar — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:21:15 +0000

One hears from very reliable sources that a wide-ranging re-do in Django is already in progress.

By: James Cridland

James Cridland — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:18:11 +0000

3 developers…

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:40:44 +0000

I will correct this when I’m not typing on my iTouch, but I meant to refer to UK commercial radio websites. The BBC is so out of our league I rarely think about them in the same breadth.

Indeed how do the Chris Moyles Extra videos fit into Radio 1’s service licence and the rules set down with iPlayer, or do things on YouTube not count?

Anyway, I digress. That sounds like a post for another time.

I’m also not particularly in awe of the Virgin Radio website, especially if seven odd developers only have to deal with one radio station.

Maybe I should have stopped after I digress.

By: James Cridland

James Cridland — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:06:05 +0000

“With lots of staff involved with the sites, I think they they clearly lead radio’s online presence.”

While there’s some nice stuff on the new Capital website, I don’t agree that they “clearly lead radio’s online presence”. That accolade lives with either Virgin Radio, BBC Radio 1, Last FM, or even NPR.

The design, writing, and featurelist of the new Capital site follows a very distant second to the above, I’m afraid. Sorry and all.