utgg wrote: 
> For the adventurous, I've been having a play with adding live updating
> text for the all the BBC radio channels - since RadioVis only provides
> text information for Radio1 and 1xtra.
> 
> I've done this with regular http polling (every 30 seconds) of a URL
> that is used by the official iPlayer app for its 'onair' information.
> Although this isn't published as an official interface, it looks pretty
> 'open' to me and has been stable for two or more years, by the look of
> it. I can't guarantee how long this will work for, but given the speed
> at which the BBC are chopping and changing things, this is likely to be
> as stable as anything.
This is excellent, and works well on my Windows system

I'd been looking at the info they provide for the Radioplayer on the
desktop, but hadn't got very far.
And went down a few dead ends on the way.....

The url that you poll seems more useful than the one I was looking at,
although I was only looking at the track/artist info.

Thankyou again :)



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