RE: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds

because computers are evil, dude! ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian Butterworth Sent: Fri 8/1/2008 5:34 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds Backstage people might enjoy this thread: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Re: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds

Brian Butterworth wrote: > Backstage people might enjoy this thread: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/31/internet.internetipos Unfortunately what this guy fails to mention is the detection method used is so poor it allows anyone with a Web Browser or other device capable of se

RE: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael > Smethurst > Sent: 01 August 2008 16:36 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds > > >> the other issue is around our legal agreements with the music

Re: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds

Backstage people might enjoy this thread: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/31/internet.internetipos 2008/8/1 Michael Smethurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> the other issue is around our legal agreements with the music industry > >> around how much timing data we can give out for trac

RE: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds

>> the other issue is around our legal agreements with the music industry >> around how much timing data we can give out for tracks playing > O RLY? > Would you be kind enough to expand on what the issues are? Unless you can't give it out for legal reasons of course! yup, u got me. not legal r

Re: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds

Michael, 2008/8/1 Michael Smethurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > for the moment the tracks are grabbed real time off vcs > > but this data only gets pulled thru to the live database (and hence /music > and /programmes) every 10 minutes. there's also page caching to take into > account. so real time upda

RE: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds

for the moment the tracks are grabbed real time off vcs but this data only gets pulled thru to the live database (and hence /music and /programmes) every 10 minutes. there's also page caching to take into account. so real time updates won't happen quite yet the other issue is around our legal a

Re: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds

Hi James, Thanks for the quick response, and I'll checkout getsatisfaction.com. So quickly on the tracklisting front. Once they're back in the /programmes pages, would these get updated as they're played. I.e. if I polled a tracklisiting feed from /programmes every 10 minutes, would I see the

Re: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Chris Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I guess question number 1 is how supported is the publishing of now > playing data to last.fm? Is it something that the BBC will provide their > own supported feed for as part of the new music site (especially as you are

[backstage] Radio now playing feeds

Hi there, Back at Hackday 07 the radio guys released some feeds that give the now playing data for Radio 1, 2, 6music and 1xtra. They are located at http://bbc-hackday.dyndns.org/tracks/ You also publish now playing data to last.fm, and this is available via the last.fm recent tracks feeds, loca

RE: [backstage] BBC Breaking News RSS feeds query

That's correct - these feeds work in a different way to others, and are actually only most relevant when they change. Items that appear in these don't have a story link when first entered and after a few minutes they are less relevant as a story will have been created which then appears in the no