XBMC Script: Sveriges Radio v1.1
I dug through my archives the other day, and stumbled upon a bunch of XBMC scripts which I haven’t used in a while. For those of you that aren’t “in the know”, XBMC (XBox Media Center) is a fully-fledged replacement dashboard for Xbox which basically lets you use your box as a HTPC. There are thousands of scripts available to enhance it, ranging from MythTV frontends to YouTube browsers.
The script I had in mind for this post is a nifty little critter (sveriges radio v1.0 by Stiffe) for browsing the different channels that are available on the public service radio network here in Sweden (SR, Sveriges Radio). It simply pops up a menu with the available channels and spawns a media player with the stream URL when a channel is selected. Neat and tidy, which is nice because the player available on their own site sucks (doesn’t play well with mplayer-mozilla or totem).
However, SR is known to change their streaming server URLs every now and then which naturally breaks the script. This ruined my Saturday morning, so I hacked together a small fix with the new URL.
I threw in a little bonus too: 10 extra channels that are broadcasted on the SR network, including SR C (highly experimental radio - this is the real deal, folks).
Download it here: sveriges_radio-v1.1.tar.gz
Feel free to comment on any bugs or make a feature requests!
