Re: [backstage] Radio 1 Schedule Feeds are changing!

2009-09-25 Thread Chris Riley
I think the most crucial bit of information left out of this email was, when? Ta, Chris 2009/9/25 Paul Rissen paul.ris...@bbc.co.uk Hello, As part of our work to enable audiences to listen to the various regional versions of Radio 1’s BBC Introducing show, we’re changing the Radio 1

Re: [backstage] Radio Pop

2008-09-03 Thread Chris Riley
Hi Dafyd, From the looks of it Radio Pop is only intended to record the radio programmes you're listening too, not the music. But I guess it wouldn't be too hard for them to add in the link between the programmes you've listened to and the track listing for those programmes to extrapolate some

Re: [backstage] Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Riley
The link is working fine, I've just read your mail in Gmail, in Chrome!First impressions are that the new JavaScript engine V8 is very quick indeed. Chris 2008/9/2 Sean DALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.google.com/chrome The URL is live, but the download link seems to refer back to the

Re: [backstage] Track Playing (http://www.trackplaying.com)

2008-08-23 Thread Chris Riley
feeds from. I had been depending on the AMI hackday feeds, which were turned off last month. Whatever you use, I'd love to hook it back up to my born-at-Mashed08-but-just-deployed-today Twitter bot at: http://twitter.com/recomme adam Chris Riley wrote: Hi all I've written a new mashup

[backstage] Track Playing (http://www.trackplaying.com)

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Riley
://cgriley.com/nowplaying/ that some of you may recall. Hope you all find it useful / of interest. Chris Riley *Lets hope this gets the BBC Radio2 Last.fm feed fixed ;o)

[backstage] Radio now playing feeds

2008-08-01 Thread Chris Riley
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,

Re: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds

2008-08-01 Thread Chris Riley
Thanks, Chris 2008/8/1 James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [backstage] BBC Music Beta launches

2008-07-28 Thread Chris Riley
Very nice, I've been waiting for this to launch since I heard the news of it being in development. Now it has I can crack on with an idea I have partially developed! Chris 2008/7/28 James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] My team have produced another corker... http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/beta is a

Re: [backstage-developer] Now playing RSS feeds down?

2008-07-11 Thread Chris Riley
It is, many thanks guys - I promise to show you the Google App Engine app I'm making with this data when it is ready ;o) Chris 2008/7/11 Paul Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The data should be going through again now. On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Chris Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well

[backstage] iPlayer - turning it up to 11

2008-06-06 Thread Chris Riley
Hi all, Some of you may have already noticed this, but I'd just like to pass on my thanks to whoever it was that made the volume in the iPlayer (and associated BBC .flv players) go up to 11. A small touch, but one that makes me smile every time I turn it up to 11 :o) Chris

Re: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Riley
I think one of the things that has been overlooked in this whole HD-DVD / Blu-ray debate is the audio side of things. DVD offered the vastly better Dolby Digital and DTS formats vs. Dolby Pro Logic offered by VHS. Blu-ray offers a slightly better version of the audio in terms of DD+ and DTS HD,

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Riley
Thanks, I might just keep it going then! Chris On 10/01/2008, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/01/2008, Chris Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very similar to something I've already done http://cgriley.com/nowplaying/ It isn't as polished as the one you're producing

[backstage] Now playing

2007-10-18 Thread Chris Riley
/about.aspx I know I could have just hooked into a Last.fm page and updated it as the artist changed, but I wanted to do this because I can, you know ;o) As usual your comments are welcome, but only once you've read the about page (I don't like time wasters). Enjoy! Chris Riley http://cgriley.com - Sent

Re: [backstage] Web Service For Terror Alert Level?

2007-07-04 Thread Chris Riley
I looked into this a while back, the problem with it is it changes so infrequently it isn't actually worth building something around it. For instance, prior to it being raised to critical a couple of days ago it had been severe since around August 2006 (I think) - and when it does change the

Re: [backstage] Facebook Apps

2007-06-04 Thread Chris Riley
I'm in the process of writing one, getting some practice in with the platform just in case I go down this route during Hack Day. So far so good, once you've figured out the authentication signature. FBML is really useful, saves lots of lookup API calls you would otherwisae have to make. As with

Re: [backstage] Please ignore this test

2006-11-02 Thread Chris Riley
Hi Mark,I think GMail intelligently detects the mail you sent to the list is the same as the one it later receives from the list, and so hides it. However if you look at say the mail archive page for backstage http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/, it should appear on there when

Re: [backstage] BBC Touch

2006-11-01 Thread Chris Riley
that, with the main subject in the headline, I'm happy with that. Ultimately its an experiment with the data, and if someone can make use of the data in a new way thanks to my efforts, I'm happy with that.Cheers,ChrisOn 11/1/06, Matthew Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Riley wrote, reordered