Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

[Paul Webster]

I've made 0.0.31e available for download again - but with only BR Klassik from BR for now.
If you downloaded an earlier build of 31e then don't bother reporting that the other BR stations do not show data.

[Paul Webster]

Beta 0.0.31f - 2023/01/02
Quick hack to put Bayern1 and Bayern2 in ...
I need to come up with a better way to do it behind the scenes before a real release - but the output should remain the same.

[Paul Webster]

Beta 0.0.31g - 2023/01/03
- Add Bayerischer Rundfunk (DE) - BR-Klassik, Bayern1, Bayern2 etc - title, artist, duration and coversearch (not Klassik) plus programme title, subtitle, duration and cover

The 2 news channels seems to be the same - at least concerning metadata. Do they have different audio content sometimes?

[Paul Webster]

Beta 0.0.31h - 2023/01/04
- Add Europe 2 (FR) - artist, title, duration and CoverSearch - primary broadcast station plus 5 streaming-only

Europe 2 has reverted to its old name since the start of the year. They had been called Virgin Radio in France since 2008.
I'll probably add the other stations (possibly only the music ones) from the Lagardère group (Europe 1 and RFM)

[Paul Webster]

Beta 0.0.31i - 2023/01/04
- Add RFM (FR) - artist, title and CoverSearch - primary broadcast station plus 15 streaming-only

[Paul Webster]

Beta 0.0.31j - 2023/01/04
- Add Europe 1 (FR) - programme title, subtitle, description and image

I could do the duration as well but will have to write some new code to handle how they provide it so that will have to wait a bit.
They are a bit slow in providing the data for a new programme so that old one can be shown for a few minutes into the new one.
They occasionally play some songs but no metadata for that.

[rttm]

Beta 0.0.31g - 2022/01/03
- Add Bayerischen Rundfunk (DE) - BR-Klassik, Bayern1, Bayern2 etc - title, artist, duration and coversearch (not Klassik) plus programme title, subtitle, duration and cover

The 2 news channels seems to be the same - at least concerning metadata. Do they have different audio content sometimes?

@Paul: thank you - regarding your question: yes Bayern1 and Bayern2 have different programs/ send different content

[Paul Webster]

@Paul: thank you - regarding your question: yes Bayern1 and Bayern2 have different programs/ send different content

My question was about the news channels - "BR24 im Radio" and "BR24live"

[Paul Webster]

Beta 0.0.31k - 2023/01/05
- Add Alouette (FR) - title, artist and CoverSearch - broadcast plus 2 streaming-only (not yet done all regional variations)
- Add Sud Radio (FR) - talk station - programme title, subtitle (presenter), description and image

For Sud Radio, I might be able to get the programme segments as well ... but that will require some extra code and might not make the next release (which is planned for early next week).

[jd68]

My question was about the news channels - "BR24 im Radio" and "BR24live"

They seem to be different. "BR24 im Radio" is the general News channel while "BR24live" is used for special occasions.
But they broadcast the same content if there is no "special occasion".

[Paul Webster]

Thanks,
That makes sense.
Unfortunately while they do have different stream URLs, they both use the same metadata source ... so the info during a period when there is a special event will not result in different data being shown.
If anyone does notice when it happens then let me know and I can see how they handle it and perhaps find a way to make it work.

[Paul Webster]

Beta 0.0.31l - 2023/01/05
- Add Saarlandischer Rundfunk (DE) - song title, artist and CoverSearch plus programme title, subtitle, description and image for 4 stations.

This is because of a request that I received via PM (seems that we have more PM space with the new forum, or it lost some of my old messages).
They do not have timings for their songs but they seem to be quite good at setting the song info to blank soon after a song finishes ... which means that I can then show their programme info.

[urknall]

Works very well, thank you very much!
One litte fix, in the plugin you wrote "Saarländischen Rundfunk (Deutchland)" its called correctly "Saarländischer Rundfunk"

There are some other local stations, which i would be very happy, if you can add them: https://www.salue.de/

Cheers Reiner

[urknall]

One more thing i just noticed: for several services from Germany you wrote: "Deutchland" -> "Deutschland"

[Paul Webster]

One more thing i just noticed: for several services from Germany you wrote: "Deutchland" -> "Deutschland"

Thanks - fixed now I hope