Re: BBC AAC streams now in iTunes and so perhaps available for internet radio devices?

On Wed, 11 May 2011 08:09:38 +0100
Paul Webster <paul.webster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was also under the impression that these XML feeds were originally
intended to be used by devices such as wi-fi radios, but it would seem
that no many manufacturers have taken advantage of them.

Richard E.

Reciva, Pure and, I think, vTuner are using the XML feeds from BBC - to
generate the Listen Again/On Demand lists - not
for the live stream info (because it is not in the XML ... at least not the
one that I am aware of).

Oh the irony of the years being spent developing audio compression algorithms
so audio can be squeezed through low bandwidth systems and yet a bloated,
bandwith sucking poorly designed HTML knock-off called XML is used to drive
it all. All to avoid a small footprint binary format. Oh, but XML is often
compressed , which , err , gives you a binary format. Go figure.

B2003

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