utgg wrote: > Were you looking at this form of url: > http://polling.bbc.co.uk/radio/realtime/bbc_6music.json by any chance? > That gives track and artist info, but isn't updated if there is no > track/artist actually playing - it only has valid information if the > "realtime" name at the end of the .json file I use is set to > "now_playing". I thought I might want to pick up track/artist from that > url when available - but the url I've used gives 'track by artist' form > of info anyway. So I kept it simple, and retained the separate line > giving the overall programme name. I did start following where they got > track artwork from, but didn't get very far.Yeah, that was the type of url I > was looking at, but as you say it is actual track info, so if nothing is playing then it contains the info for the last track. Even worse for stations that don't play music, like radio_four, the json is virtually empty.
I noticed the artist artwork taken from the musicbrainz id, and did look at the track artwork but was stumped by a couple of bits. utgg wrote: > I also started looking deeper into the more detailed information for the > whole programme with this type of url: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nsdwf.json, just looking for > programme artwork really. But the images are mostly just headshots of > the presenter, and I wasn't that bothered about having those! Maybe > something for a future update. BBC 6music have slightly trendier casual shots, but some of the Radio2 images are just scary! LMS Version: 7.9 TranquilPC T2-WHS-A3 - WHS 2011 2x Touch, 3x SB3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bonze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6150 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
