bpa;479069 Wrote: > I think it is unlikely as the plugin does a lot of HTTP Gets and > processing which would not be good for the MySB servers. > > I think the problem lies with NPR who should produce a playlist of the > WMA streams for each of the programs as well as the Flash/AAC and > podcasts. There may be a better/alternative solution but I haven't > looked at current NPR website in detail as present solution works for > me. Part of the problem here is due to the structure of NPR. It's a membership organization and, though they have a large endowment now, it still gets the majority of it's annual funding from the member stations. Small, po-dunk stations in the middle of Nebraska or somesuch place pay really hefty fees to 'purchase' All Things Considered, etc. NPR really can't put itself in the position of 'competing' with the local member stations by offering direct feeds of whole programs. At least not until the funding structure changes. Personally, I think that's inevitable, but it probably won't happen for years and years. I think FM will have to die first. But since the local stations run the show (NPR's board, according to its bylaws, has to include 10 managers of local stations...who are elected to their positions by all the member stations. Since NPR's board has 17 positions, this puts the local stations in charge.)...I'm guessing that NPR will be very slow to change.
If you look at NPR's native iPhone app, it steers the user to feeds from local stations for the national shows. Thus, even though you'll be listening to Fresh Air from WHYY in Philly, you may get the Chicago station WBEZ's logo displaying on your iPhone and you'll hear all the WBEZ chatter during the breaks. But presumably, a NPR mysqueezebox.com "app" could operate the same way and even feed off the same dataset as the iPhone NPR app. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70539 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
