07-03-2021, 03:25 AM
(07-01-2021, 11:51 PM)Tim Curtis wrote: Wrote: The essence of the idea is sound. The part that I'm not sure of is what to do when the station is flagged as "offline". That could be due to any of the following:
- Playable URL has been changed by the broadcaster
- Station is temporarily offline
- Station has been decommissioned and not broadcasting anymore
- Network issues causing false offline status
I think having a "Check stations" option in Radio Manager might be a good start. It would be running moodeutl -U behind the scenes.
Yeah, I don't know if it's reasonable or even possible to explain why a station is offline within moode. But just notifying users that a station is offline will allow them to dig into things further if they're interested. I'm guessing that 80% of the stations that are offline aren't of interest to any particular user, but they can look into the other 20% that are of interest to them as they see fit.
A general "check stations" function would be handy. I'm guessing that users would only check individual stations that were grayed-out from being previously tagged as offline, to see if they had come back online somehow. But coding would probably be simplified if all stations were tested in the same way, whether offline or not.
- Steve
