Hi, > Would anyone be interested in a partial implementation of this API for > Virgin Radio's channels, too?
Yes me! I'd love to be able to add Virgin Radio channels to the radio player widget. I am heading to a land of despair with TV at the moment, there's the Sky Active Player, there's the 4OD player, there's TVP et al and sometime there may be a BBC iPlayer. Wow, watching TV from the Internet is going to be such a great user experience - I need which software for which channel? Hmmm, don't like what is on there, wait for software to load for other channel, nah, next, oh this is download, wait 4 hours - don't feel like watching that anymore, maybe tomorrow then :(. I think I'll stick with Sky+. Apparently I can watch over ether TV on a box with a Panasonic label on it but watching the BBC content on something without a BBC logo on it is the end of the BBC as we know it - if a 'common standard' can be built by you guys for radio, perhaps the same might then percolate into TV? Pete Cole > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Cridland > Sent: 04 January 2007 22:46 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [backstage] BBC Web API - subset for Virgin Radio? (was World > Service Streaming) > > On 12/27/06, Pete Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, I should have (much) been clearer. > > The API described at > http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/index.html can > return location info, e.g. > http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi- > perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.channel.getLoc > <http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi- > perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.channel.getLoc> > ations&channel_id=BBCROne > > The real-audio streams returned for a number of radio channels > seem to be > wrong at the moment (I don't know about the multi-cast streams). > > > Great, many thanks. > > Would anyone be interested in a partial implementation of this API for > Virgin Radio's channels, too? > > We'd be able to almost instantly support... > channel.list&format=simple > channel.getLocations&format=simple&channel_id=xxxxx > channel.getInfo&format=simple&channel_id=xxxxx > ...and I can see us also supporting a limited getProgrammes list in > simple and schedule format. We may also add a channel.nowPlaying > method, showing the currently-playing song, if anyone wants that. (Or > is this already available on a BBC API somewhere?) > > We'd need some help in defining the correct format names for our ogg- > vorbis, aac+, streaming mp3 and quicktime streams, if someone wants to > help: I don't see the documentation for these names (and since the BBC > doesn't stream in these formats, I doubt I will!). Help and guidance > gratefully received. > > It's a shame that the API methods all have 'bbc.' in front of them. > Happy to call ours 'virgin.channel.list' etc, but I suspect we may wish > to, in time, expand these to other stations (we actually stream a lot > of other commercial radio services on our network), so would have > preferred the API methods to drop the 'bbc.' bits in front. Again, > guidance from the developer community would be good to help us here. My > goal is to make any BBC Web API application (that uses the subset we'll > support) work out of the box for our services too, with just a URL > change. > > As an aside - the API returns the name of "BBC7" as "BBC Seven > Digital", which I believe has never been used as a brand name for the > station. > > > Feel free to email me off-list - I'm at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - if this seems like blatant > commercialism. But I'd hope that, by using the same API calls, we're > giving developers more choice. Your views more than welcome. > > -- > http://james.cridland.net/ > http://www.virginradio.co.uk/vip/profile/bigjim/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
