Re: [slim] EPG "whats on" for all streaming stations

2010-01-02 Thread huytere
According to Will (the Radiotuna administrator) he said "This is on the road-map and development is currently underway." So someday we will have good metadata for all the online radio stations! Please help the cause by going to vote for this feature request here: http://feedback.radiotuna.com/p

Re: [slim] EPG "whats on" for all streaming stations

2009-12-24 Thread huytere
That is great. I created some bookmarks on the radiotuna website, but it was not showing me the currently playing song... is it working for you? I am not sure they actually poll "up to the minute" for their metatdata, it looks like they are storing data as people tune in or something like that. No

Re: [slim] EPG "whats on" for all streaming stations

2009-12-23 Thread huytere
Paul Webster;497734 Wrote: > People might be interested in this related project ... RadioTuna > http://www.radiotuna.com > Launched recently from a kitchen in Brighton, they collect "Now > Playing" information from around 20,000 internet radio stations (e.g. by > processing the status page on SHO

Re: [slim] EPG "whats on" for all streaming stations

2009-12-23 Thread linvale
Wow - this is quite an amazing resource. Thanks for sharing - and I agree a plugin for this would be tremendous - and the interface to amazon works to allow direct downloads of MP3s not just CD orders -- linvale Squeezcenter running on ACER R1600 Windows XP Fileserver ReadyNAS Duo Main L

Re: [slim] EPG "whats on" for all streaming stations

2009-12-21 Thread Paul Webster
People might be interested in this related project ... RadioTuna http://www.radiotuna.com Launched recently from a kitchen in Brighton, they collect "Now Playing" information from around 20,000 internet radio stations (e.g. by processing the status page on SHOUTcast servers) - and make the results

Re: [slim] EPG "whats on" for all streaming stations

2009-12-21 Thread usch
The SB will support anything you tell it to, since it is basically just a display and a DAC. Your problem would be to collect all the metadata from "the cloud" by polling the different APIs, which is not even possible for all services. As snarlydwarf said, on last.fm for example possible streams

Re: [slim] EPG "whats on" for all streaming stations

2009-12-21 Thread huytere
I think you mean RDS. Thanks, I was not really expecting to get much. I was hoping that since mysqueezebox.com is "in the cloud" it could pulse all the "common" stations like shoutcast, radioIO, internet radio, etc. And then if the users personalized Pandora/slacker stations could be "kept alive"

Re: [slim] EPG "whats on" for all streaming stations

2009-12-20 Thread Pat Farrell
snarlydwarf wrote: > TV's have bandwidth dedicated for that. (It was in the Vertical > Blanking Interval for NTSC, but part of the datastream for Digital). > Radio doesn't have that at all, and Internet radio depends on the > station providing that data. Some do, some don't. Some broadcast FM s

Re: [slim] EPG "whats on" for all streaming stations

2009-12-20 Thread snarlydwarf
huytere;497468 Wrote: > 1) Does SB have "now playing" metadata support for all the apps and > internet stations? I am looking for the EPG data similar to how tv > companies store "whats on - now playing" in their EPG. TV's have bandwidth dedicated for that. (It was in the Vertical Blanking Inte

[slim] EPG "whats on" for all streaming stations

2009-12-20 Thread huytere
1) Does SB have "now playing" metadata support for all the apps and internet stations? I am looking for the EPG data similar to how tv companies store "whats on - now playing" in their EPG. Assuming I have these favorite preset radio stations, which of these support "cover art", "now playing EPG"