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On 12/05/06, Pete Cole
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I've written a 'radio' gadget/widget/applet/application using the API [1],
the API provides a significant improvement over what we were able to do
before (nick the real-audio feed locations from the Listen Live player for
Mac and hard code everything!) but a couple of comments:
The API is a bit cumbersome in this app because the results available from
particular calls are a bit thin. TV-Anytime causes me brain ache as well, so
using the simple results formats this happens at startup:
Call channel.list
for each channel:
call getLocations to find those with a real-audio feed
call getInfo to obtain the location of the logo graphic
All this info could probably be provided in channel.list results without
really breaking the concept of 'simple'?
schedule.getProgrammes is used for getting now playing and working out when
now playing needs to update (though the API doesn't actually drop the
'current' show until a minute after it has ended) and also used to display a
day ahead schedule so you can set 'alarms' where the app auto-tunes the
station at the programmed start time.
What would be nice?
Being able to 'series link'. Perhaps this is available in
programinfo and I haven't seen it.
More information/locations on a programme and in particular that
'listen again' is available for it and link information for programme web
site/page.
Other thoughts:
The What's On Yahoo Widget sample accesses
http://radioandmusic.gateway.bbc.co.uk/xml/livetext.xml - this doesn't seem
to be available - is it an internal bbc thang?
Though I understand why RSS feeds, especially those that are based on stuff
originating at places like Reuters must have 'non-commecial use only' terms,
I'm struggling to see why an application such as this player using these
APIs must be non-commercial. I can go to a shop, buy resistors, capacitors
etc etc and build a device to tune to your signals and charge what I like
for it but do essentially the same thing in software and it must be
'non-commercial'?
Pete Cole
[1] We've been playing with an improvement to the Zeepe Radio player we did
last year - its available at http://www.zeepe.com/zeepeapps2 in the gadgets
section. If you want to run it you need to download and install the Zeepe
framework first. Usage is free etc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Andrew McParland
> Sent: 03 May 2006 17:08
> To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
> Subject: [backstage] An API to our schedules
>
> Hi,
>
> We've been working on a prototype API to our schedules based
> on the TV-Anytime data.
>
> Have a look at:
>
> http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/index.html
>
> It's experimental, so be gentle with it, but do have a play
> and let us know what you think.
>
> Andrew
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