RobbH wrote: 
> (The quote is in reference to kingwindsor's statement: "Always Display
> station icon" boxes ticked)
> 
> I find that while unchecking "Always display station icon" does allow 
> graphics for individual programs to display (and they may not be square,
> which is a problem for some of my software). it seems also to suppress
> the display of details about the content.
The BBC station logo are square but all programme images are rectangular
- go figure ! IIRC dimensions are usually multiple/fractions of 640x480

> 
> For instance, just now, with the "Always display station icon" ticked, I
> had the usual logo for Radio 3 and this text:
> 
> Jazz Record Requests
> The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey by Joni Mitchell
> Recordings by Lester Young, George Shearing and Miles Davis.
> 
> After unchecking that box, I get an image of presenter Alyn Shipton
> (which is badly distorted on my custom software, not that that's of any
> concern to the Beeb, bpa, or anyone else) and only generic text:
> 
> Jazz Record Requests
> Jazz Record Requests : 09/03/2019
> Recordings by Lester Young, George Shearing and Miles Davis.
> 
> Just coincidence? It seems to be consistent.

Detailed program information comes from two sources. BBC "Polling" and a
RadioPlayer.

LMS UI has 3 text fields  - Track, Artist and Album.   For streaming
live radio, the BBC program info (Station, Program series title, Episode
details and description) have to be mapped into the 3 fields.

So in your case "Jazz Record Requests" is the Program Series title and
putinto the UI's "track" field.
Program description which is usually episode/broadcast specific is put
in the UI's "album" field which is "Recordings by Lester Young, George
Shearing and Miles Davis."   It can be quite long.

The currently playing track info is put into the UI's "artist" field -
the  track info as supplied by Polling and Radioplayer response is
typically formatted as  "track title by artist name"  so this would
match to "The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey by Joni Mitchell".   IF teh
user has paused a station or has skipped back the plugin will changes
the data and not show "Now" track as program is delayed.  In this case
the plugin will show as Track the station name followed by something
like "delayed by x mins".  In your case this is not seen so the issue is
not due to delay.

However the "now" information is not always an " track by artist" type
info.  There is no code in the plugin to create info such as "Jazz
Record Requests : 09/03/2019" - this comes from the program info BBC
"Polling" website. When a broadcast program is between tracks or BBC is
not providing "now" program information (this happens late at night
usually after 11.00pm) then the format shown appears. 

While this can explain two different layout - it does not require
changing the check box.  I have not been able to replicate your
experience when toggling "always display station" box.  I need to try a
few late night and other R3 programs as there are special cases when the
plugin uses alternates when a data field from the "Polling" or
RadioPlayer is empty and I wonder if there is some special case.


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