Provides extended track and/or programme information for a variety of
radio stations - along with a menu to choose the station to play.
Current set of stations includes:
- Juke Radio - adds cover art, year and album (artist and track title
available in LMS without the plugin)
- nova.fr - adds cover art, artist, track and programme name -
stations Radio Nova (including Bordeaux and Lyon), Nouvo, Danse, La
Nuit, Classics.
However, little information available for live shows on Radio
Nova/Bordeaux/Lyon
- klassikradio.de - track information without the plugin generally
works - however, it is difficult to find the stations - so having this
plugin makes it much easier to select a station from the extensive
list of around 50. Note - this broadcaster is not limited to classical
music. There are also some jazz, rock and world music stations.
- Český rozhlas - adds cover art, artist, track, programme name
and synopsis.
A Czech broadcaster with some flac streams - with 3 stations supported
- Jazz, Classical (D-dur), Arts oriented talk (in Czech) (Vltava)
- Naim - add artist and track
Naim provide a small number of flac streams and have equivalent
available as MP3 and AAC.
The non-flac streams have artist metadata included - but the flac does
not. So the plugin adds in the missing data.
BACKGROUND:
Over the last few years I have made a few plugins to provide information
about the currently playing track or programme for some internet radio
streams - plus, for a few stations, providing some access to the
broadcasters "listen again" information.
Each of my plugins was heavily based on whatever I had released
previously (and the very first was based on mherger's DRS plugin).
This meant lots of similar code doing essentially the same thing leading
to a maintenance challenge if an issue was found.
With this plugin I am trying to pull all of the threads back together so
that it becomes easier to add support for other radio stations in the
future and also for users to be aware when a broadcaster is added to the
supported set because the menu will be added to.
There are still many areas that need to be improved including leak
through into the settings page of elements from my other plugins that do
not yet do anything here.
In reality this is still a beta - but it works well enough.
FUTURE
All depending on available time and skill ...
Migrate my pre-existing plugins into this one
Add more broadcasters/stations
Allow end user to disable unwanted broadcasters or stations from the
list (so that menu size is reduced)
ADDING NEW BROADCASTERS / STATIONS
I am happy to consider adding new stations to the list but the chance of
it happening depends on many things.
The first is whether the data is available from the broadcaster - with a
strong preference for it being in JSON format and a strong
non-preference for only being able to parse a web site.
The second is for the broadcaster to have multiple stations that all use
the same underlying data.
The third is that there is enough spare time to do it.
MIGRATION FROM BETA
Some people tried out the beta in various forms while I was developing
this. Thanks.
The plugin is now in the official list of unofficial plugins ... so you
should remove the link to my beta repository
Paul Webster
http://dabdig.blogspot.com
author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc),
planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, supla
finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland
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