Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] 7.3 and XM radio

[asteinmetz]

Given that Sirius and XM are the same service now, why wouldn't the
stream technology be merged?  Alternatively, why can't I keep the same
XM hardware but get access to the Sirius stream (for, ahem, $2.99/mo). 
I realize these are rhetorical questions in this forum.  I'll call XM
and see what they can tell me.


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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] add WFMU archives to AlienBBC?

[asteinmetz]

Kenzo;300296 Wrote: 
> You wrote:
> Are you saying that when you use the listen links that are on the site
> now (i.e. the second URL above), it DOES currently work to accomplish
> what you are trying to do, with the only exception being that it only
> plays the one specific episode?

Yes, exactly.  I can paste that URL in the "Tune in URL" field on the
SqueezeCenter home page and it plays fine.  Alternatively, I can create
a .pls text file that has a list of the URLs from the most recent
archives page then I can stream any of the most recent shows from the
playlist I've just created.  But that will break next week when the
URLs on the "most recent archives" page change.  It will still play the
prior show but eventually link to nothing when the high quality MP3
stream is deleted.  I'd like to have the same playlist always stream
the most recent show.  That would work if there was an invariant "most
recent" URL that itself linked to a different stream each week.


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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] add WFMU archives to AlienBBC?

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I have be grappling with this issue for a over a year.  Search "WFMU"
for my feeble attempts to get AlienBBC to work with the WFMU current
archive streams.  I have had a couple exchanges with Kenzo, who
maintains the WFMU web site (I'm glad to see he checks in here). 
Here's what I know:

You can paste any one of the archive URLs or now playing URL into the
"Tune in URL" box of Squeezecenter.

You can't access the streams by pasting the RSS feed for the recent
archives into the podcasts section because the WFMU feed deliberately
doesn't provide downloadable podcasts as kenzo mentioned.

One solution would be to write an html page scraper that that turns the
recent archive page into a play list.  Once I'm done raising my five
children, ages 16 to 2 months, I'll take a crack at that :).

Another solution would be for the recent archives page at WFMU to use
invariant URLS like:
http://www.wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=billkelly&archive=mostrecent

instead of:
http://www.wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=27145&archive=42596

Then we could keep that URL in our favorites list in Squeezecenter.


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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts

[asteinmetz]

People should note that they should use the nearest airport code shown
at wunderground.com as their city code.  I had to peruse the perl code
in wunderground.pm to figure that out.  to wit:

# my $weather = $wc->get_weather("TXL"); # best to use IATA airport
code as location

Thanks for the massively quick fix!


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[SlimDevices: Plugins] RSS Feed with links to streams - how to play?

[asteinmetz]

I have an RSS feed of a list of MP3's, mp3.xml.  I'd like to play them
in the SB of course.  I can link to the XML file using the podcast
plugin and the item names are displayed correctly but of course I can't
play them.  I'd like to tweak podcasts/Plugin.pm to allow these streams
to play.  Looking at the Perl script, I am a bit intimidated although I
could crank out some very pretty Pasal code back in the day. 

It seems like simply adding a line or two would do the trick to parse
out the URL and stick wherever the podcst stream URL goes.  Can
somebody point me in the right direction on this?

The releavant code *I think* for parsing the RSS feed comes around line
346 in podcasts/Plugin.pm:

elsif ($url =~ /^http\:/) {

# does a synchronous get
my $xml = Slim::Formats::XML->getFeedSync($url);
if ($xml && exists $xml->{'channel'}->{'title'}) {

# here for podcasts and RSS

$feedNamePrefs[$i] =
Slim::Formats::XML::unescapeAndTrim($xml->{'channel'}->{'title'});
} elsif ($xml && exists $xml->{'head'}->{'title'}) {

# here for OPML

$feedNamePrefs[$i] =
Slim::Formats::XML::unescapeAndTrim($xml->{'head'}->{'title'}); 
}
else {
# use url as title since we have nothing else
$feedNamePrefs[$i] = $url;
}

I am struck by the similarity of a podcast XML file which
plays...http://wfmu.org/podcast/SH.xml


WFMU's Michael Shelley from Jan 19, 2008

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25989
Michael Shelley Podcast on WFMU.org from Jan 19, 2008
(Includes an interview with Lulu!)
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25989
http://podcast.wfmu.org/SH/sh080119p.mp3"; type="audio/mpeg" />
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:06:57 EST
WFMU and Michael Shelley
38:10


...and the mp3 stream XML file which doesn't
http://www.wfmu.org/archivefeed/mp3.xml


WFMU MP3 Archive: Seven Second Delay with Ken and Andy Breckman
from Jan 23, 2008
http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=26034&archive=40513
<a
href="http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=26034&archive=40513">Listen
to MP3 audio archive</a> from Seven Second Delay with Ken and Andy
Breckman on WFMU, from Jan 23, 2008
http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=26034&archive=40513
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:59:01 EST


Thanks muchly for any help!


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