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  • idea

    Frankie Roberto shared an idea in BBC on July 30, 2008 14:46:

    Frankie Roberto
    Add links to IMDB pages
    A useful feature would be to add links to the relevant IMBD page (and possibly other sites) from 'programmes' which are actually films (eg A Beautiful Mind). You could probably figure out how to do this programmatically...
  • idea

    Frankie Roberto shared an idea in BBC on July 30, 2008 14:41:

    Frankie Roberto
    Import historial programmes from the Infax database
    It'd be really cool if you could import old programmes into the /programmes infrastructure, eg the Infax database, returning the functionality that was available in the Programme Catalogue trial (http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/catalogu...).
  • idea

    Frankie Roberto shared an idea in BBC on July 30, 2008 14:37:

    Frankie Roberto
    Allow users to suggest edits and corrections to the data
    One idea to help 'fix' the data would be to allow users to point out mistakes, suggests edits and additions, or perhaps more commonly, merges between two programmes that are really the same one. Of course, there would have to be some kind of system to manage this, whether moderated by the BBC or the community, but it could be useful - the data will never be 100% perfect!
  • problem

    A comment on the problem "Missing playlist data" in BBC:

    Frankie Roberto
    Sounds good. I guess the problem with matching the manually entered data to MusicBrainz is that there are sometimes numerous variations on a particular track (different lengths, edits and mixes from the single, albums, compilations, etc) and asking a BA to match these up would be a nightmare? Though just matching up the artist might be easier, for starters?

    Incidentally, are you using audio fingerprinting to match up VCS Dira logs with MusicBrainz, or something else? – Frankie Roberto, on July 30, 2008 14:32
  • problem

    Frankie Roberto reported a problem in BBC on July 29, 2008 17:42:

    Frankie Roberto
    Missing playlist data
    I know this is already being looked into, but I just wanted to add my +1 for figuring out a way of adding the music that's not played out through VCS Dira!

    These are often the more niche tracks (and unique BBC-recorded sessions tracks in the case of 6Music) which are the most interesting (for me). Far more so than Coldplay! :)

    So here's hoping you can fix this soon.
  • idea

    Frankie Roberto replied on July 29, 2008 17:38 to the idea "Episodes list pages" in BBC:

    Frankie Roberto
    Good point, but the fact that there are long-running series shouldn't stop you from doing this, after all most comedy shows and dramas run for a maximum of 13 episodes (for something like Doctor Who) down to a minimum of 6 episodes (for standard comedy show). Even a typical American drama like Lost only has a maximum of 24 episodes per season, which'd easily fit on a page, and would be jolly useful (much more useful than by year)!

    As for stuff like the Today show and 'continuing dramas' like Eastenders - I guess you could just paginate them?

    Repeat showings should definitely not be displayed twice though - it's confusing! (I know this'd cause problems with the channel logo as shows are sometimes shown on more than one, but still...)
    Do you think this is one of the best points? Mark it as a good point
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    Frankie Roberto marked one of Michael Smethurst's replies in BBC as useful. Michael Smethurst replied to the idea "Episodes list pages".

  • idea

    Frankie Roberto shared an idea in BBC on July 29, 2008 08:17:

    Frankie Roberto
    Episodes list pages
    You should be able to see a simple list of 'episodes within this series', in the 'right' order. Currently, the 'series' pages just show a list of episodes according to when they were shown, which means that you often get loads of duplicates (because of repeats). Eg see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007wds7
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