ian_heys wrote: > The direction this thread was taking caused me to consider what I would > do without BBC iPlayer (I don't use Extra) but like you I'm always > impressed how quickly solutions are found to BBC's actions. I think your memory is short. For "Listen Again" AlienBBC was a screen scraper - and regularly had to be updated as BBC changed the web interface. So nothing has changed in 15 years - it is not a new direction. BBC create a special 7 day Listen Again feed which they have continued with a few hiccoughs which seemed to be due to side effects rather than a policy of killing off the feed. I believe this feed is used commercially and so it will not be terminated abruptly.
To get away from screen scraping Extra used unofficial APIs which BBC said would end in 2015, so Extra is just turning going back to its roots. > I'm thinking of ordering a pi Codec (as opposed to a DAC) I'm sure I can > find a use for visitors to play music on my system and be ready if I > have to fall back to Analogue at any time. There is no indication that BBC will stop live internet streams. If you mean by a codec something like a FM/DAB/DVB-S/DVB-T receiver. I have done test of interfacing all these to LMS. Audio quality is much less that UK quality feeds and metadata is worse. Extra functionality will be interrupted if BBC stop/change the browser interface - if terminated then EXtra may have to try to use the Sounds app feeds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
