When streaming from radio sources it is possible, via existing plugins to retrieve information about the programme that is currently playing (or even being listened to via a catchup service). Currently those details are squeezed into song information (some combination of artist, title, cover, album, duration) meaning that the information is not readily able to be presented when a song is playing (assuming track details are captured by the plugin). On old SB devices there is not really enough space to show a lot of info - but on Touch and modern home-built stuff, plus web interfaces there is room to present a lot more.
So - my suggestion is that LMS should accept a few more attributes (eg progtitle, progdescription, progicon, progstarttime, progduration) then a display handling module would allow the user more control over what is shown. e.g. Touch-style display could show the programme name and small icon up in the top left of the screen (even with a 2nd progress bar) when a named song is playing. I know that this would mean a lot of places would need to be checked (potentially everywhere that uses "artist"/"title") - but my guess is that most places could ignore it. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112211 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
