{"id":294,"date":"2016-03-27T16:03:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2016-03-27T16:03:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T14:03:44","slug":"updated-bbc-live-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/updated-bbc-live-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated BBC Live Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A simple update to <a href=\"\/bbcliveradio\">BBC Live Radio<\/a> today, to version 3.2.0, so three radio stations that haven&#8217;t worked for a while now work again:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BBC World Service<\/li>\n<li>Classic FM<\/li>\n<li>National Public Radio (NPR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, two of these aren&#8217;t BBC stations, but never mind! What NPR and Classic FM have in common is that the URLs change relatively frequently, which breaks my code &#8211; I&#8217;m not using a documented, supported API, I&#8217;m just finding the URL by investigating the website and coding it in. It&#8217;s a pain to maintain, since I don&#8217;t know they are broken until someone tells me, then I have to go and fix them. Still, because people tell me, I know people use it, so there we are.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC World Service one is more interesting. It also exists in the official BBC API, but doesn&#8217;t seem to work correctly. So I&#8217;ve found the URL by searching and put in that working one. I know the World Service is a bit of a separate part of the BBC, and I know the Internet services provided by the BBC have been stitched together gradually over many years from my conversations with BBC engineers going back fifteen years. So I suppose this simply represents this internal division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple update to BBC Live Radio today, to version 3.2.0, so three radio stations that haven&#8217;t worked for a while now work again: BBC World Service Classic FM National Public Radio (NPR) Of course, two of these aren&#8217;t BBC stations, but never mind! What NPR and Classic FM have in common is that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/updated-bbc-live-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Updated BBC Live Radio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,45,32],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blind","tag-bbc","tag-blind","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}