I haven't seen the Reciva menu but from the Reciva posting I've read they are created centrally and seem to be updated about once a day.
They are using a similar process of web walking and I guess looking for text heading to start their menus. However every so often bits of the menu fall off as a result of unexpected web layout changes and typically takes 1-2 days before the menus are accessible to users again. So this method requires staff to daily check and as necessary fix the problem. Reciva have staff to maintain the whole Reciva web site 24x7 and ensure if URLs of station change that they are updated, answer user requests to add URLs and presumably update the BBC menus as their USP is RealAudio support & BBC Listen Again. A year ago I did a test and wrote a program to walk the complete BBC website to get an index to all programs so that a user could search for a program name. It generated a large amount of traffic and to do this daily would require permission from BBC but also continuous checking & maintenance as every so often few days I had to change the code to ensure all menus were found. I didn't see the benefits outweighting the effort to maintain. I now have added the "Search" facility to AlienBBC and it gives me enough searching for my needs. There is an undocumented tweak which enables me to have preprogrammed searches so for example, I can have a menu of all shows On Radio 4 with the word "comedy" in Title or description. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43558 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
