[mythtv-users] MythMusic "Listen to radio stream" data updates.

[John Pilkington]

On 07/02/2025 16:18, David Hampton via mythtv-users wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-02-07 at 14:31 +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
>> MusicMetadata reports the frontend's attempts to refresh the radio
>> stream data, but the source file used by the central server is
>> showing
>> its age.  What I hear does not always match the display, and
>> QIODevice::read is liable to crash with a report that the device is
>> not
>> open.
> 
> Yes, the data file is out of date.  I'm surprised you're getting
> crashes though.

Thanks for the response.

I had tried one-line incomplete blind edits of defective data.  The 
system worked again after a frontend restart.
> 
>> Any chance of an update?
> 
> Not in the short term.  The original data source has disappeared.  From
> Paul H in 2022:
> 
>      It's been brought to my attention that the RadioSure website
>      we get the raw data for our radio stream database updates
>      from has been down for at least 3 weeks so the database is
>      no longer being updated.
> 
>      The RadioSure website is registered in Russia so it's
>      possible the reason it is down is connected to the conflict
>      in the Ukraine.
> 
> I just checked the RadioSure website, and it now redirects to a
> gambling site in Thailand.
> 
> A google search for RadioSure turns up a newer site at
> https://www.radiosure.fr/ that hopes to be a replacement for the old
> site.  I don't know the formats of any of this, so I don't know how
> easy it will be to get the scripts updated for the newer site.
> 
> David