Owen Smith;622672 Wrote: > This is unfortunate. I've always wanted Classic FM Listen Again on the > Squeezebox and I was hopeful that everything coming together on UK > Radio Player would give me that in the same plugin as BBC stations. But > if all it's going to do is redirect then it doesn't really provide > anything. Classic FM does look as if it is directly within UK Radio > Player, but until the BBC stuff is as well it's unlikely the plugin > will be created.
I am in the process of making a plugin that does this, the first draft does appear to be working as intended (somewhat to my surprise). It requires BBC iPlayer to be installed. The plugin is inspired by the JazzFM plugin, and uses the same logic to do its business, albeit with more stages of 'scraping' to generate the listings. As an added bonus one gets a number of other radio stations as well (e.g. Heart), as all radio stations within Classic FM's parent grouping use the same mechanism. The source data is derived from Classic FM's contribution to the UK Radio Player, http://ukrp.musicradio.com/classicfm/live. The streams, both live and listen again, are delivered through Flash. With luck there will be no substantive changes to the mechanism used by Classic FM, at least for a while. Otherwise the plugin becomes useless. My knowledge of plugin writing is limited, so there will be much that could be improved. My priority now is to ensure that it is well behaved and doesn't unnecessarily hammer the Classic FM server. (Caching mechanisms are not clear to me at the moment). I shall try to verify this over the next week or two. I am happy to make the plugin available should it be of interest to other users. -- mrw ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mrw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38299 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
