Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

[florca]

Massive thanks from me as well - all working perfectly after update

[DaveCheltenham]

Release 2.25.1 contains:

• Fix for National Stations not appearing in the "Stations & Schedules"

This release directly fixes for the BBC's API change, so that the functionality is restored. I'll do a further release in the future that will ensure that the plugin is more resilient to the BBC making this kind of change in their API.

It's available now from the Beta repository, it will be available from the main repository at the next refresh later today.

Just to say thank you Stuart for the quick fix on bringing back the BBC National stations and I find your program invaluable. I know you have used the BBC’s APIs and strange that their changes even broke these?

Definitely time for another cup of coffee! Thanks again

[expectingtofly]

I know you have used the BBC’s APIs and strange that their changes even broke these?

They changed how they identified the national/regional stations in their API response. It was a really minor change and probably didn't impact their own app/front ends.

Definitely time for another cup of coffee! Thanks again

Thank you! :-)

[timmoss501]

Release 2.25.1 contains:

• Fix for National Stations not appearing in the "Stations & Schedules"

This release directly fixes for the BBC's API change, so that the functionality is restored. I'll do a further release in the future that will ensure that the plugin is more resilient to the BBC making this kind of change in their API.

It's available now from the Beta repository, it will be available from the main repository at the next refresh later today.

Many thanks @expectingtofly, very much appreciated.
Just for reference in case it's useful to someone else, I'm running a dockerised version of LMS and it took a stop and start of the docker instance before the national station were listed, the restart form the plugins page didn't do it.

[expectingtofly]

Many thanks @expectingtofly, very much appreciated.
Just for reference in case it's useful to someone else, I'm running a dockerised version of LMS and it took a stop and start of the docker instance before the national station were listed, the restart form the plugins page didn't do it.

The plugin caches the station list for 10 minutes from when you last viewed it. So, no need to reboot the server if the list is not updated after install, just wait a few minutes.

[furnace]

Release 2.25.1 contains:

• Fix for National Stations not appearing in the "Stations & Schedules"

This release directly fixes for the BBC's API change, so that the functionality is restored. I'll do a further release in the future that will ensure that the plugin is more resilient to the BBC making this kind of change in their API.

It's available now from the Beta repository, it will be available from the main repository at the next refresh later today.

Stuart, you're a star. My kids splashed out on Sonos,but I'm more than happy with Raspberries and LMS. Thank you!!

[tricia]

Stuart, you're a star. My kids splashed out on Sonos,but I'm more than happy with Raspberries and LMS. Thank you!!

Same here: Pi with LMS. Thank you so much for the fix Stuart!

[slartibartfast]

The BBC have excelled themselves today. Not content with delaying Paul McCartney at Glastonbury by an hour (I thought it didn't look dark enough for 10.30 ) it isn't available in BBC Sounds yet.

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[castalla]

Stuart, you're a star. My kids splashed out on Sonos,but I'm more than happy with Raspberries and LMS. Thank you!!

You chose correctly! The Sounds interface on Sonos is clunky and basic... In fact, LMS plugins beat the Sonos equivalents into the dust.

[d6jg]

The BBC have excelled themselves today. Not content with delaying Paul McCartney at Glastonbury by an hour (I thought it didn't look dark enough for 10.30 ) it isn't available in BBC Sounds yet.

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It is on iPlayer and Sounds now.

Note.
I watched it live on Saturday night (i.e. the one hour delayed version) and again on iPlayer last night.
On Saturday during "I saw her standing there" Paul's vocals were at an appreciably lower level than Dave Grohl's and throughout his vocals were quite low in the mix. By last night the Beeb had worked their magic and the SQ overall of the iPlayer/Sounds version is notably better.