09-19-2023, 04:30 PM
(09-19-2023, 03:47 PM)the_bertrum Wrote:(09-19-2023, 03:30 PM)Tim Curtis Wrote:(09-19-2023, 03:16 PM)Nutul Wrote:(09-19-2023, 12:37 PM)Tim Curtis Wrote:(09-19-2023, 10:14 AM)the_bertrum Wrote: The BBC situation is a bit different though, because it is actually a paid for service. We have a thing called "the licence fee" that people in the UK pay, and in the old days it gave a person licence to receive the radio and television broadcasts that the BBC produce. In the analogue days, the consumption could by geographically restricted by which radio towers it was sent from, and then followed up with people on the ground knocking on doors to check if you'd paid. Now that they "broadcast" digitally, anyone in the world can consume and what they are trying to do here is restrict it back to people who can reasonably be assumed to have paid the fee.
Similar to PBS/NPR in the states but different in funding model and distribution policy..
I suppose we shall see if the to be updated stream links can be fished out.
Probably can, but I think there is more to it, something related to the technology:
"(...) If your device does not support protected HLS and DASH streaming technologies (...)"
Yes if the stream is encrypted as is done in commercial Music Services then it becomes device or app-locked and thus difficult to circumvent.
I believe that they would work with us to incorporate the streams if we applied to them for it, but it would probably mean having to embed elements of the "Sounds" app into our interface in truth. Dunno if the effort would be worth it. Are the BBC streams very popular outside the UK where we have many other ways we can consume them?
I would think that BBC streams would be popular with UK expats but I'm not sure about popularity among other user groups.
The Sounds app prolly has data collection, encryption keys etc and thus not compatible with FOSS.
Do you know if they are still going to maintain the 128K MP3 globally accessible streams?
