Triode wrote: 
> I've just updated the BBCRadio Applet (the version of this plugin which
> is installed as an app directly on Touch/Radio)
> 
> This adds experimental support for RadioVis slideshow images which will
> display while Radio1 and 1Xtra live stations are playing.  This is
> currently using a demo server from the BBC, but it sounds like they are
> embracing the RadioVis standard which includes text and slideshow
> streams, so I hope that in future there will be slideshow streams
> available for other stations.
> 
> I've done this in the applet only for the moment as it means I can add
> code to display on the screen at maximum size.
> 
> Please post feedback here on how well it works - though I can't
> influence the content of the slides....  Is this useful?  How well does
> it work on the display of radio and touch (the actual images are
> currently the right size for radio, they are scaled up slightly for
> touch)

I think it works well. I don't have a Touch, but the upscaling seems to
work well in Squeezeplay and on a 'non-standard' tablet with screen size
800x480. The pillar-box result looks fine to me.

I know that Classic FM and its siblings also offer RadioVis, and I
believe that Absolute Radio does as well. I tinkered with the former a
while back, but was diverted. I'm inclined to look again.

In an ideal world the Now Playing applet would be made extensible to
accomodate plug-ins. Or perhaps a 'RadioVis' NP provided and made
available according to some appropriate trigger. Although I think the
trigger would present a challenge at present, as I sense that 'RadioVis
IP stream discovery' may not be mature, or consistently implemented, at
present.


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