6Music mediaselector links confusion

6Music is no longer recordable in my application. The full string for the mediaselector is no longer available.

Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/availability/6music.xml

select a link and paste it in the browser

<link type="mediaselector">

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/mtis/stream/b052t0l6

</link>

>>result

<mediaSelection xmlns="http://bbc.co.uk/2008/mp/mediaselection">

<error id="notavailable"/>

</mediaSelection>

The BBC has changed the path to mediaselection links, but has not updated their availability listings. I can't find web documentation about this.

Using the canonical pid takes you to a page that has for multiple types of streams. High, low, uk, nonuk etc, but no complete url,

The new path is http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/pc/vpid/

BBC AOD Links Info

AOD has been deprecated by BBC -  noted on 9/17/2020

I found a new source of information that looks promising. It has information about the On Demand XML links.

This i good! I have sussed out the way to get directly to a recordable link from

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/availability/radio4.xml

to get a pointer to http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/mtis/stream/b01bm04v
20160430 - now has links to dash and hls streams
>

<link transferformat="dash"type="mediaselector">

http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-syndication-dash/proto/http/vpid/b0780jwf

</link>

<link transferformat="hls"type="mediaselector">

http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/vpid/b0780jwf/mediaset/audio-syndication/proto/http

</link>

</links>

that contains a link http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/asx/b01bm04v/iplayer_intl_stream_wma_lo_concrete

which is what I want to hand off to VLC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/imda/imda_transports.xml 20160430 - live broadcast links. Not sure how to use.

BBC Images - Links

BBC IMAGES

Poking around on the web site, I found an image with the link http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p01sp5jj.jpg

p01sp5jj is the value of the image tag in the file http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jlzj.xml

I wonder what other sizes are available?

how about 256x144 !
and 96x54


https://developer.bbc.co.uk/content/image-recipes  (not active, not archived :-(

https://github.com/Mermade/bbcparse/wiki/ImageChef-recipes

ImageChef recipes

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Replace $recipe with one of the resolutions below, and $pid with an image-pid e.g. http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/512x288/p043b9km.jpg

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32x32	32x18	32xn
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112x112	112x63	112xn
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176x176	176x99	176xn
192x192	192x108	192xn
208x208	208x117	208xn
224x224	224x126	224xn
240x240	240x135	240xn
256x256	256x144	256xn
272x272	272x153	272xn
288x288	288x162	288xn
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320x320	320x180	320xn
336x336	336x189	336xn
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480x480	480x270	480xn
496x496	496x279	496xn
512x512	512x288	512xn
528x528	528x297	528xn
544x544	544x306	544xn
560x560	560x315	560xn
576x576	576x324	576xn
592x592	592x333	592xn
608x608	608x342	608xn
624x624	624x351	624xn
640x640	640x360	640xn
656x656	656x369	656xn
672x672	672x378	672xn
688x688	688x387	688xn
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832x832	832x468	832xn
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896x896	896x504	896xn
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960x960	960x540	960xn
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1104x1104	1104x621	1104xn
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1232x1232	1232x693	1232xn
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And in 16px increments up to the following resolution has been seen in the wild:

Square	16x9	Native
1920x1920	1920x1080	1920xn
3000x3000

BBC Pictures!

While inspecting elements in Chrome browser, I found in "http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/programmes/genres/drama/scifiandfantasy/player/episodes"

a link to



I need to figure out Morphic Programing!

BBC Programs is the new place to go to get the tools to design a program to download and convert BBC Radio shows. It replaces the BBC API (glad I didn't code up too much;)