Re: [Announce] cuteRadio - A user-friendly internet radio player
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Originally Posted by xes
(Post 1430099)
@marxian
I'm testing your new version 0.2.1 and things are going better.
Browse categories and tunein search seem to be more clear.
To speed up searches, i would suggest you to cache locally in a separated folder, for example .logos_cache, all station's png since every png has the same id of tunein radio stations and it's unique.
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I don't see any need to cache data. The local database is there to store stations that you use regularly, thus reducing the need to search online. Also, as soon as you cache data locally, you have two problems instead of one. How often have you read the advice 'just delete the cache, and it will work again'?
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Originally Posted by xes
(Post 1430099)
Then, maybe add an option to enable/disable the alphabetic selection inside every category. (now is really boring..)
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It's not really feasible to do this, due to how the browsing works in the API. I agree that it sucks, but that's how it is.
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Originally Posted by xes
(Post 1430099)
Artist and album info now always report "unknow" (maybe that in 0.1.0 it was working? - not sure)
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I did switch from Phonon to QMediaPlayer, so that is probably the cause. I thought metadata was working correctly after manually setting the Icy-MetaData request header.
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Originally Posted by xes
(Post 1430099)
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I came across that page when looking at TuneIn myself. I don't really want to be doing any heavy processing of data. I'd rather keep it simple and ensure that the data retreived is up to date. That is, after all, the purpose of having TuneIn integration.
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Originally Posted by xes
(Post 1430099)
ONE IMPORTANT request:
Using:
curl http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?...4197&filter=l1
you can extract original radio's url. Could you store also this into the db as secondary url when saving a station?
When/if the domain radiotime.com and tunein will become unavailable, 404 or what else, we will be able to swap primary and secondary url without lose our preferred stations!
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I have considered this before, and will probably implement it (not using curl, though ;)). |
