Verulamius wrote: > This is a better example from around 12.50 earlier today on Radio 3.
This seems to be a "Listen Again" and a "Live Broadcast" of the same "Composer of the week" program. >From plugin perspective - Live broadcast is playing an infinite audio stream. Metadata comes from two realtime sources (i.e. no archive - information is only valid for the moment it is received) - Program information and current track information. The plugin polls these sources every 30 secs and displays whatever is returned. There is no connection between the audio and the metadata Current track will be displayed if available - otherwise just program data will be displayed. Typically this happens between tracks and if polled at "wrong" time the program information (i.e. no current track) could remain for up to 1 minutes. >From plugin perspective - "Listen Again" is playing an audio file with fixed duration , there is metadata associated with this file and it is static and doesn't change. There is no connection between the data provided with the Listen Again and the metadata retrieved during the live program broadcast. The BBC often has different information between live and "Listen Again" - often the difference is small but images are usually different. >From the BBC Sounds website the image shows. The main big image is the Program images which is supplied by BBC for "Listen Again". The smaller images below are used as part of "current track" for a live broadcast as well as the text. When a program is broadcast the BBC provides images and text that should accompany the live stream - there is no syncing of text with audio. The text & image is provided in realtime and it is replaced when the. If a users skips back a live broadcast - the "current track" metadata stream is realtime and so cannot show "current track" info related to the skipped back audio. In Listen Again, in addition to the program image (tih the struipy background) the only information provided by BBC for the program are 1. Composer of the Week, Beethoven Unleashed: Return to Form, For a Later Age 2. Donald Macleod explores the enduring power and innovation of Beethoven's late quartets The text in notes 1 & 2 are used in the "Listen Again" display - the metadata. This is a saved program and no other information will be provided when it is being played back. 30598 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
