Sunday, October 13, 2019

Br-radio

It seems Kieran Clifton, the Dominic Cummings of Take Back Control for BBC Sounds, has entered the Tunnel of Negotiations with the un-elected technocrats of Amazon. Kieran has pulled BBC live streams from an international audio platform called TuneIn, which is used by many as the system to deliver radio to their trendy new wifi speakers like Alexa, often as a soothing alarm - or to speakers right across a house.

"We know it’s annoying that features such as the alarm and multi-room for instance don’t work anymore. We have been talking to Amazon about adding these features to our skill for many months - but we were told they wouldn’t enable them. And, since we don’t have access to usage stats, it was difficult to understand how many of you were using those features.

We didn’t get anywhere, at some point we had to make the change - and now we can demonstrate to them how important the features are to some of you.

And happily, there is now hope. Amazon has, in the last few days (after we made these changes), blogged about enabling these features. And we sat down with the team from Amazon yesterday to look at how we can get to a good place - so we’re really encouraged by progress so far."

Will a deal come in time for Kieran ?   There are some 180 comments on his BBC article already, many pointing out that the removal of BBC programmes from TuneIn hits much wider than just Amazon devices. And the ceaseless hunt for data is derided "Time to reverse: you don’t need my data to know what’s relevant. I’m telling you!"

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