03-13-2021, 03:55 AM
(03-12-2021, 01:41 PM)FizzyTea Wrote: I get the impression they are moving away from freely accessible streams which do not allow them to capture "sufficient" data from the user.
The other bad news is that the BBC seem to be showing no interest in engaging with the listening public on this - only with commercial entities - where this leaves wonderful hobbyist communities like this one I am not sure.
Exactly that FizzyTea.
"Going forward, the BBC considers its use of the ICY protocol deprecated"
This feels like final notice on the URL's. From everything I could find out about this it's not just a URL change and they haven't said how regular the review on the URL's will be. It's a migration with the view to end to listening to BBC services without using Sounds. TuneIn couldn't meet their demands and I don't think any other service could either. They need to enable HTTP streaming from Sounds on a phone over the LAN and that way you can have your own unique radio URL's and of course run a VPN on the phone. So all this is pointless for them. I've always said that I would pay for global access to BBC radio if the content I needed was there (access to my local radio station back home and Radio 4/6).
We're going to need some form of proxy or way to rebroadcast a Sounds page to a HTTP stream ... and if that's illegal it means bluetooth is illegal too, that's a rebroadcast. Bluetooth would be the recommended way to get audio off a phone and into a radio or audio system, and the notion of "rebroadcasting" would then trigger hired guns to claim even more copyright infringements and we get even more restrictions to technology. So this ain't over yet.
What they started with TuneIn can only snowball on and on. This is a horrible battle going on. Try using TuneIn in the UK, this points to a future where "global online radio" at least from the big broadcasters starts going away.
