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

[John Pilkington]

On 08/02/2025 14:04, Paul Harrison wrote:
> 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 Yes, the data file is out of date.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      no longer being updated.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

Thank you both for these comments.  I have seen some of the API stuff 
and might be able, sometime, to get somthing from it.  But I'm not 
really wanting access to the entire web-radio environment and will 
probably stick, for the time being, with the few stations that are 
giving me audio playback now.

John P