1-Jun-20
Release Notes for BBCiPlayer 1.6.9 
- Fix for current track info for selected BBC stations
(R1,R1X,R2,R3,6Music & Asian).
- Rewrite of metadata display with small changes to menu.opml files.
Users with custom menu.opml files may need to update.
- Current track info now has track image (if available).
- Fix for HLS - bug added unnecessary playback delay.
- Included mrw's fixes to On-Demand programs - fixes the unavailability
of some programs.

Release Notes for BBCiPlayerExtra 3.4.0
- Fix for missing menu icons for BBC Scotland and BBC Wales

BBC made changes to API which provided current/recent track information.
Previous BBCiPlayer version also used RadioPlayer API but that API was
also broken at the same time so a number of changes were necessary. So I
used the oppoprtunity to rewrite the metadata routine which over time
had become a rat's nest (and hard to maintain) since first release as
features were added/removed and APIs changed.

As the APIs had broken I had no reference to check whether new metadata
routine behaved the same as old especially on those UIs which I don't
normally use. 

Changing the metadata routines which provides the "face" of BBCiPlayer
meant having to test many permutations (e.g. with/without current track,
enabled /disabled Station icon, skip back/live, live /on-demand) and on
4 UIs - Old SB player 2 line display, Touch, WebUI Classic & WebUI
Material default settings.

This means there are probably some cases/combinations where the
displayed information has changed or maybe not even shown - please
report so they can be checked.

To make metadata uniform & simpler, parameters (title, desc & track)
have been added to all all live stations "iplayer://" URLs.
This may affect users who have custom menu.opml file and/or user who
have saved "iplayer://" URLs as Favorites / Alarms.  In those cases it
will only require a small edit to add the necessary parameters otherwise
some metadata info may not be displayed when playing.


There seems to be a problem with downloads from sourceforge so use the
github URL below. The ZIPs for 1.6.9 & 3.4 is also hosted on github

http://bpa-code.github.io/bpaplugins/betarelease-repo.xml


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