Why is BBC iPlayer plugin not on Squeezebox Plugins page?

[whitman]

I've been enjoying using Triode's excellent BBC iPlayer plugin for some time now, and, like Alien BBC before it, it has become for me one of the key reasons for owning a Squeezebox.

So I wanted to find a link to direct an SB-owning friend to its usefulness. But I found to my surprise that it is not listed in the Audio section of the Squeezebox Plugins page at

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/PluginsAudio

The only place to 'find' it, it seems, is the post on this forum, at

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229

To me this seems like selling this wonderfully useful plugin short.

[funkstar]

The iPlayer and AlienBBC plugins are both available through the extension downloader that was introduced in 7.3.

Go to Settings -> Advanced -> Extension Downloader

Tick the extensions you want to install and click apply.

[whitman]

Ah yes, I was forgetting The New Way. I am but a humble 7.2.1 user - like many others, I suspect. Just figured it was made a little difficult for us to find out about something very good.

[funkstar]

Or you could google it, it's quicker than trying to navigate the horribly slow wiki.

http://www.x2systems.com/AlienBBC/

[ftlight]

On 1/25/2009 7:03 PM, funkstar wrote:
> Or you could google it, it's quicker than trying to navigate the
> horribly slow wiki.
>
> http://www.x2systems.com/AlienBBC/

You can also google the wiki:

site:wiki.slimdevices.com "alien bbc"

Faster search and better results than using the wiki search box.

--
Bill Burns
Long Island NY USA
http://ftldesign.com

[bonze]

On 1/25/2009 7:03 PM, funkstar wrote:
> Or you could google it, it's quicker than trying to navigate the
> horribly slow wiki.
>
> http://www.x2systems.com/AlienBBC/

You can also google the wiki:

site:wiki.slimdevices.com "alien bbc"

Faster search and better results than using the wiki search box.

But neither method is a quick way of finding the iPlayer plugin for non-7.3 users.

[whitman]

Thanks for underlining it so succinctly, bonze: that's the point I was trying to make. Triode's work deserves better visibility - that's all.

[funkstar]

The Wiki is editable by anyone that creates an account. That is the whole point of wikis. I'm sure it was removed for perfectly valid reasons.... either that or a mistake. You could send a PM to Triode to see what he says or just add it back into the wiki yourself.

[Triode]

Please add it to the wiki - I am afraid I am considering 7.3 and later and so only really thinking of Extension Downloader.

[whitman]

I just had a look at editing the wiki. Blimey. Very complicated. Doesn't exactly invite you in, does it?

Anyway, according to the editing FAQ, a page is editable if it has an edit tab at the top. Can't see such a thing on the Plugins/Audio page.

And there was I simply trying to do a good deed. Shall I give up?