The upgrade of MySqueezebox.com to 7.5 makes more features available for 3rd party applets, and in particular enables the BBCRadio applet - so I'm announcing it now...
BBCRadio allows Radio and Touch users access to all BBC content (both listen live and listen again) without requiring a local server. It provides similar functionality to the BBCiPlayer plugin for squeezebox server. If you have a local server you should continue to use the BBCiPlayer plugin, but not and you want access to BBC listen again streams then the BBC Radio applet is for you. To install: 1) Make sure your Radio or Touch is running 7.5. (If you connect to MySqueezebox.com and not a local server then you should have already been prompted for an upgrade) 2) Go the the "Applet Installer" menu on the player (select Settings, then Advanced, then Applet Installer). This lists all available 3rd party applets which have been registered. 3) Unselect the "Recommended Applets Only" checkbox [as BBC Radio is not yet a recommended applet. Hint you may want to vote for it to become one..] 4) Select "BBC Radio" 5) Select "Install" from the menu below this The player should download the applet and then reboot. After it has restarted, it should then have a new "BBC Radio" menu under "Internet Radio". Within this there is a menu for Listen Live radio streams and a separate menu for each station's listen again menu. Navigate through these menus to play a live stream or listen again stream. Some notes: - the applet supports both wma and flash/aac streams from the bbc (which one is used is selectable from the bottom of the top level menu of the applet). WMA uses less resources on Radio and so is the default for that platform - the main live streams also support the BBC's livetext - this is a set of continuously updating metadata about the currently playing stream (you will also see this on a DAB radio.) - listen again streams should support pausing and fwd/rew - listen again requires the full menu data from the bbc to be downloaded and then converted into the format for displaying on the menus. This makes menus slightly slower to build than the BBCiPlayer plugin as the player has less processing power. It is also noticably slower for Radio4 as the list is longer. (I can't do anything about this!) - if you switch between a local server and mysqueezebox.com then you may need to force the player to connect to the server before playing a stream. Please try and let me know how you get on. As 7.5 has only just been released this has yet to have significant testing of users so I've not had much feedback thus far. Enjoy... -- Triode ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
