- Open BBC iPlayer in Google Chrome.
- Click on the 'Radio' tab.
- Under 'Radio Stations' click a station.
- Click 'Listen Live'. The player will open in a popup window.
- Right click on the title bar of the popup window and select 'Show as tab'. The player window will change to a standard Chrome window with tab and toolbars.
- Click on the page menu (the page icon to the right of the address bar) and select 'Create Application Shortcuts'.
- Tick 'Desktop' (or wherever you want the shortcut to be placed).
- Click 'Create'.
Now test the newly created shortcut by clicking it. It should open the radio player in a new Chrome 'application' window and start playing automatically.
You can resize the application window to fit the player, and next time you open it it should remember this window size.
You can change the icon from the rather fuzzy BBC icon it has by default to something a bit nicer:
- Create a 32px x 32px image.
- Save it as a .ico file (I use the ICO Photoshop plugin but there are free/online tools that'll let you do this).
- Right click on the radio player shortcut and select 'Properties'
- Click the 'Change icon' button.
- Find the new icon you created and click 'Apply'.
