Nfi why? It is literally blasted out into space for anyone with a receiver to hear but now unless I want to spend 2 gigs of ram and a CPU core I can't listen on a computer.

Why lock down public radio? What possible state interest does that serve?

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[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well that's shit. Anyone running a campaign against this?

ABC listen is the easiest way to continue enjoying all the ABC’s audio content in one place, on a wide range of devices. When you use ABC listen, you can discover more shows and podcasts you might enjoy, and we’re able to offer helpful features like personalisation and recommendations.

Translation: We prefer to force you into our walled garden where we can track your behaviour and market to you. Driven by corporate-world execs, I would guess?

ABC makes radio stations available via third party radio partners as follows:

RadioApp - all ABC stations are available.

TuneIn - you can find the ABC national stations, apart from ABC Sport. All local ABC stations have been removed.

iHeartRadio - All ABC Radio stations have been removed from iHeartRadio.

The uneven application described here makes it even more confusing. Maybe they're trying to extract licensing fees from these platforms?

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh they also killed RSS feeds for news.

https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-are-RSS-feeds-no-longer-being-updated

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're actually still around (and updated), just hidden for some reason.

e.g. Here is their "top stories" feed.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Baffling

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

I can only assume it's a prelude to requiring an account like iview (guess who doesn't watch abc anymore) for Metrics and licensing fees.

I'd rather we just fund the broadcaster and make it easy to use hey? A modern browser is not a default piece of software to have running. They're some of the most bloated and ridiculous things that exist.

This country is fucking stupid, the government just repeatedly self owns by not understanding the purpose of providing easy and free access to state services. Having a national broadcaster to create a sense of community and shared purpose, and to lift up and inspire your citizenry along the safe lines you desire is like a really good thing if you're a centralising bureaucrat.

Neoliberal business brain will be the end of community.