** Hastings Rock Radio **
Cheers Jon. As I say just an observation Not a criticism as I realise this was
all put together amidst many more pressing issues and time constraints.
I am in complete admiration for what you have achieved for this broadcast this
year as I know we all are.
R
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On 24 May 2020, at 17:53, jon bird <hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
** 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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