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

[David Hampton]

On Fri, 2025-02-07 at 11:18 -0500, David Hampton 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 Yes, the data file is out of date.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.
> 
> > 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     no longer being updated.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.

BTW, the site says its powered by the radio-browser.info database, so
that's the original data source.  Its a community populated database
like musicbrainz.org or thetvdb.com.

David