mrw wrote: > I like what I see from Paul Webster's "Radio France track information" > plugin, which offers Title, Artist, and Album, gathered from Radio > France's servers. The possible downside to that is that you lose the > station name and programme, but it's a compromise that I can personally > live with. Given that much of the programme material (at least that I > listen to) does seem to be sourced from CD's, it makes some sense. > > I don't know that the BBC ever offers "album" data in its metadata, so > circumstances undoubtedly different. > > I have, and use, a Squeezebox Classic, although I haven't rigorously > checked how the data displays there. That is, of course, a two line > display. I have no experience of the three line display, other than > seeing it referred to as a complicating matter in the code.
There needs to be a better approach to LMS display data and Paul has started a thread on this. Album is not a great "tag". BBC has lots of concerts, quizzes, documentaries, books etc. Complicated by the fact that on-demand has more info compared to "Live" . BBC can also has "Long" and "short" description depending on where the info is coming from. I would prefer to provide info in clearly designated fields (e.g. title, current track/segment, current artist/source, description, station name, Program name, episode etc.) and let the UI (possibly with use options) choose what info is displayed. A mix & match and ability to truncate fields, customised by the user would help. For example plugin create an Album field from Program description and Station name - it is probably OK for Radio 1 but not for "Radio Coventry & Warwickshire" - truncation is needed. Similarly a program description may be short for Radio 1 drivetime but very long for a Radio 3 Prom concert. So at the moment I'll try to do what looks right but it'll vary according to live, delayed or On-demand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109826 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
