Re: [backstage] Listen Again Links

[Duncan Barclay]

I have to agree with Dave that this would be a very nice thing to have officially. There is one piece of data that I feel is missing from the list of things below, however.  The duration of the programmes would be a useful piece of data for scheduling things to make it easier to decide what to listen to or for a number of other reasons.  And you can't just trust the listings as they can be slightly wrong ... And Ben's talk was great, especially the answer to the American woman's question :) Duncan Dave Cross wrote: So Backstage has officially launched and in his talk on Saturday Ben[1] asked us to ask for any more data feeds that we might be interested in. So here's my request. Currently I build my BBC streams page (http://dave.org.uk/streams/) by screen scraping the data from the BBC radio web site. This is, of course, fragile and also puts an unnecessary strain on the BBC's servers. It would all be a lot easier if the BBC made that data available in some kind of data feed. What I'm suggesting is a data faile containing the following for each station: * Name of station * URL of home page * URLs of all "listen live" streams (in radio player) * (where available) URLs of actual real player streams * List of all programs on the station And then for each program, the following: * Title of program * Date/time of broadcast * URL of program's web site * URLs of all "listen again" links (in radio player app) * (where available) URLS of actual real streams * (where available) URLs of MP3 versions If you wanted to add other metadata (like genre) then that would, of course, be great :) What do you think? Possible? Probable? Cheers, Dave... [1] Good talk, by the way, Ben.