> > But why did the problem not exist with Radio 4 Long Wave? You said it > had managed differently. Why the lack of consistency with adjacent > "presets" in Alien BBC? >
Radio stations often change the specific URLs they use for a station. Most web users do not notice as they just click a "listen" type button. AlienBBC takes the same approach - it access the web page where the BBC holds the station URLs - parses the web pages and extracts the current station URL. This means if BBC changes the URL for say Radio 4 - your Favorite will stop working but the AlienBBC Radio 4 live will work as it will pick up the latest URL. Unlike the main live URLs The BBC squirrels the Radio 4 LW URL in a hard to parse page and rather then spend a lot of effort developing/testing/maintaining code to handle this one URL - the actual URL is put into the AlienBBC menu. It is a case deciding how best to spend limited development time. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60870 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
