Jules Taplin wrote:
> Actually... the pages that 'Listen Live' uses don't exist any more... so
> that menu option will probably just disappear altogether. Although we
> might have to rename 'Listen Again' to make it all make sense ;)
(speaking as someone who hasn't yet managed to get AlienBBC up - halfway
through - and hasn't attempted to look at the code, so I don't know what I'm
talking about) - is there anything to be said for splitting this up into two
parts, so there's one part which deals with parsing the pages and acts as a
feed for the second part of a clean XML or similar index? That would:
* avoid the current situation - where an innocent such as myself is
warned off the bleeding edge current version (0.94), but finds that the
current 'stable' version (0.12) is actually out of service (because, if I
understand correctly, the BBC changed the layout of the web pages, and only
the bleeding edge version has been updated to deal with the new layout). In
principle with a division such as this, the parsing code could be updated
independantly of the playback code;
* allow a more 'slim sensible' heirarchy to be imposed on top of the BBC
heirarchy - eg there certainly is still a 'listen again' link for the major
stations, and since I'm hoping (in time) that an SB with AlienBBC can be
used to entirely replace a radio in at least one room of a Radio4 addicted
household, I'd like there to be easy top level access to it
* one day in some far off utopia, when the BBC start publishing a
sensible feed of this stuff, it will be easy to convert to it!
Jules - have you ever tried talking to someone at the BBC about this? I
can't see any reason why what AlienBBC does should be frowned upon by the
BBC, it seems entirely in tune with their mission, and just another way of
making this particular outlet for their broadcasting usable. Or am I
missing something?
Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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