topic Re: Radioplayer App in Sky Q

Radioplayer App

Paul2360 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:11:51 GMT

Why do the details of currently-played music not show?
'On-Air' generally shows "No Information".

Additionally, when the feature occasionally works, it often shows the wrong track e.g. the preceding or next one.

Re: Radioplayer App

TimmyBGood — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:11:53 GMT

That's outside the control of Sky: each individual station feeding data into the app needs to populate playlist information.

I'd imagine the app owner (UK Radioplayer Ltd) could potentially link to a music identification service, but that would presumably require a commercial agreement at considerable cost.

Re: Radioplayer App

Paul2360 — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:15:42 GMT

Thanks, but why would the facility work sometimes for a station and, at other times, not at all or wrongly for the same station?

Re: Radioplayer App

TimmyBGood — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:42:55 GMT

@Paul2360

Given each playlist is presumably compiled manually by a producer or other staff member at the channel concerned and submitted into the Radio Player infrastructure, perhaps that's just not happening consistently.

https://support.radioplayer.co.uk/support/solutions/articles/48000824348-advanced-topic-station-screen-js-api-documentation

Not really my area, but I'd assume it's the 'most recent metadata' section which is relevant.

{

"meta_data_type":"live",

"meta_data":

{

"StreamTitle":"Elbow - One day like this",

"StreamUrl":"http://www.bbc.co.uk ",

}

I'd note that the appearance of track titles is also inconsistent on DAB radio, probably for the same reason: if the information isn't in the submitted metadata then it cannot appear on a display.