ModelCitizen;336714 Wrote: > > When I can summon the strength I'll update my various SlimCenter menus > to use the AlienBBC/BBCRadio Microsoft WMA protocol feeds instead of > the current Real Audio ones. When the BBC finally offer something > stable, reliable, SENSIBLE and USEFUL for hardware players and I can > just do a vanilla AlienBBC install knowing that it will all work > perfectly for at least a year without me having to screw with it I'll > do that too. > > But actually, I am beginning to lose faith in the BBC and am starting > to believe that they'll never get it right and that to some degree > they've lost their clear headedness/confidence of old. > > Did I mention that even the links under the BBC iPlayer menus don't > work on my AlienBBC installation? > > I hope that the BBCs James Cridland (?) takes some notice of this > thread. >
It's clear from sites such as 'Music' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/beta/), 'Programmes' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/) and 'Backstage' (http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/) that the BBC are putting considerable effort into reorganising their offerings around open data and, dare I say it, the semantic web. This new infrastructure enables services such as iPlayer, and it's the -migration- of radio into iPlayer that's causing the current problems for AlienBBC, not the new infrastructure itself. There might be a few bumps along the way, but I can't see how you can argue that they're heading in the wrong direction. -- mavit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mavit's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10203 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51829 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
