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

[Paul Harrison]

On 07/02/2025 20:24, David Hampton via mythtv-users wrote:

> 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 Yes, the data file is out of date.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      no longer being updated.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
>

There was really no comparison between the RadioSure database and the 
radio-browser one.  The first one was completely crowd sourced but with 
moderators checking the changes to the database. It was fast moving with 
dozens of changes committed per day. It meant any problems or 
inconsistencies could be fixed quickly. On the other hand the 
radio-browser dev until quite recently would not allow anyone other than 
the stream owner to fix anything so the DB was a complete mess, may 
still be I haven't checked recently,  with lots of inconsistencies and 
duplicate streams because often the only way to fix any errors was to 
re-add a stream. Thankfully the dev has finally relented and kind of now 
allows streams to be added or edited by anyone but only if you have a 
gitlab login. There is a fairly good API that could easily be used by 
MythMusic to replace the existing stream DB if anyone is interested (I 
wont hold my breath).


Paul H