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Thread: Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin
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2020-11-23, 06:45 #191
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2020-11-25, 03:37 #192
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Hi. Loving this plugin, thank you.
I wonder if there is a way in which browsing can be made easier? You kindly included browsing by category which is a big help but I wonder if there can be a further refinement?
For example, if I browse all speech and then drama and then crime the first page is taken up chiefly with 10 episodes of 'Broken English'. At the bottom of the page I am invited to click on the next 30 to 60 of 207. That is potentially a lot of browsing! It would be helpful if initially only the programme series were shown and then by clicking on that the individual episodes are shown. This would make browsing so much easier and still enable individual episodes to be played. Does that make sense?
Thanks for all your work, it is appreciated.
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2020-11-25, 03:57 #193
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2020-11-25, 04:42 #194
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2020-11-25, 05:07 #195
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Eztras uses an old BBC interface A-Z which delivers with all iPlayer programs but plugin filters out TV ones. BBC have said many times it will be removed. A while back I looked in the RMS API as I thought the info was derived using RMS couldn't see how. Maybe it is different now.
I think Extra categories are take from the same source but they have to be added manually. I just added the top ones and the ones requested - some users don't like big menus.
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2020-11-25, 05:28 #196
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Release 2.6.0
Version 2.6.0 includes the following :
New Features:
- "Now Playing" track information added to live streams and audio-on-demand catch up streams.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue with paused live streams restarting correctly.
For the "now playing" info, I settled on displaying it on a 4 to 2 ratio with how the audio data arrives. Which basically equates to an alternating display of 26 seconds for the programme title and 13 seconds for the currently playing track information. This seemed to strike the right balance between aesthetically pleasing and useful. Hopefully it works for you too.
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2020-11-25, 08:42 #197
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Thank for the updates in 2.6.0 to show now playing information. This works well, although I would prefer a longer now playing, compared with programme title, as the current music is more important for radio 3 listeners than knowing you are listening to the evening concert.
And now onto the next ask...
Is it possible to have the option for a three line display, so that the now playing information can be shown as well as the program title?
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2020-11-25, 09:10 #198
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2020-11-26, 03:27 #199
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I've had a quick look at this. It essentially is working the same as the BBC website and Sounds App. So the plugin is showing the same number to browse through. The difference is the plugin is sorting by "Release date", whereas the website/app defaults to sorting by "popular" so that you don't get bunching of episodes all released together. I'll switch to sorting by "popular" in the next release, then look to adding more options for changing the sort order that you can browse through as a longer term solution.
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2020-11-26, 04:05 #200
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