[Hastings Rock] Re: Robojock.
- From: jon bird <hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 17:53:28 +0100
** Hastings Rock Radio **
In message <B9C10FE4-C260-411E-AE2A-CA22FED22596@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ralph
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
** Hastings Rock Radio **
Just an observation.
The web radio player tells us what is playing now. Is there an option
to have a history there as well. Even if it’s only the previous
track. Sometimes you don’t have the opportunity to get to the player
before the track ends and therefore not know what it was.
Ok, so the "track now playing" details was pretty much at the bottom of
my list of stuff to do this year, it was very much the last thing to go
on. Mostly this is because (unfortunately) we picked totally the wrong
year to overhaul the website and we just weren't in a good enough place
to do this properly. Aside from the actual functionality, all of the web
pages would need re-doing to fit in with the new look of the site as
well. As you know, normally we do have the track history on the site and
I was actually hoping to roll out a new feature this year which put up
the album artwork for each track as well (which is something I know a
lot of stations do these days). However we really just didn't have the
time (well I didn't) to spend sorting this out for this year so we ended
up with pretty much the bare minimum.
The Robojock pages also need redoing as well, they're still using the
style from the old site - again this was a job that never happened due
to lack of time, not to mention the fact that behind the scenes those
pages operate slightly differently to accommodate running in the daytime
means it would be slightly nugatory work as we'd have to do it again for
when we next go on air properly. In the end we just went with what we
had.
Food for future thought perhaps?
Also for future. As you can get software that will recognise a track ,
is there any way something like that could be used to tell the web
player what is being played when remoteing in or when a DJ is playing a
personal choice ??
Just thoughts.
For DJs remoting in, track details are pushed out to the website *if*
they are provided as part of the incoming stream. That *if* very much
depends on whether the software the DJ is using supports it and has been
set up correctly. My software does but only if you tell it - that was
captured in the that document went out to those people using it telling
them how to do this but I wasn't going to jump up and down on them if
they didn't. Some have, some haven't. For everyone else not using my
software, that is down to them to sort out - I know the SAM software
Sarah's uses does but I don't recall seeing the updates coming in from
anyone else.
j.
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