expectingtofly wrote: > I've just got around to looking at this. > > To write a plugin is quite straight forward (to replicate whats > available on the web site). Although, as @paulwebster mentioned, the > meta data provision uses web sockets, so the meta data would be limited > The problem is they only make available very low bitrate streams (48 > kbps) available via this unauthenticated method, which particularly for > classic fm, makes the whole exercise completely pointless. > > They do make what they call "HD streams" available through their app of > 192 kbps (I had a look at their android app) if you sign in. By a bit > of proxy sniffing I can see that these "hd" streams are open (e.g > http://ice-the.musicradio.com/ClassicFMHD ) but are protected by > requiring the passing of a "hdauth" token as part of the URL. Which, by > the looks of it, is probably possible to reverse engineer, but they > obviously do not want anyone to do that as it is all very well hidden.
I guess to do it properly, we'd be dependent on them providing an API so we could sign in - they then get the data they want from us as users, and we get the HD stream without having to use their app. Less advertising revenue for them though I guess is the problem with them wanted to do that.... I assume the token is generated through the signin process, so is likely to be unique to each session, or is it unique to each user perhaps? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ psketch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56555 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114000 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
