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Blog posts by year and monthFebruary 2015

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  1. Audio Factory: an overview

    Audio Factory: an overview

    "If it isn't broken, don't fix it" is generally true, but in this case the previous encoding technology system was broken.

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  2. Ö÷²¥´óÐã News app: update

    Ö÷²¥´óÐã News app: update

    The latest update to the News App, pushed to the app stores, includes accessibility improvements to voice over and keyboard accessibility. These are the first improvements as part of an ongoing accessibility review.

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  3. CPS Vivo: a new content management system for Ö÷²¥´óÐã streams

    CPS Vivo: a new content management system for Ö÷²¥´óÐã streams

    The principle behind Vivo is to build a lightweight responsive single page web application that is built on the cloud to support three key editorial workflows.

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  4. How we built Ö÷²¥´óÐã Shuffle

    How we built Ö÷²¥´óÐã Shuffle

    One of Ö÷²¥´óÐã R&D's research questions is to ask if it's possible to offer the benefits of personalisation while maintaining privacy.

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  5. Curation kit: a mixing-desk for content feeds on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Ö÷²¥´óÐãpage

    Curation kit: a mixing-desk for content feeds on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Ö÷²¥´óÐãpage

    We wanted to make a simple, smart way to put the range of Ö÷²¥´óÐã content at their fingertips, and help them pick out what they wanted to use.

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  6. Audio Factory: Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 3 HD Sound on Shoutcast

    Audio Factory: Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 3 HD Sound on Shoutcast

    We are still talking to manufacturers and many are confident that they will be able to provide their users with access to all 57 of our HLS AAC streams at 320kb/s within a few weeks or months.

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  7. How we built the new Ö÷²¥´óÐã Ö÷²¥´óÐãpage

    How we built the new Ö÷²¥´óÐã Ö÷²¥´óÐãpage

    The new Ö÷²¥´óÐã mobile Ö÷²¥´óÐãpage is a flexible ‘taster menu’ of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's website.

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  8. Audio Factory: your comments

    Audio Factory: your comments

    I wanted to follow up on the discussion that has been had on this blog recently about Audio Factory and more specifically the impact that it is having on internet connected devices.

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  9. How we built Ö÷²¥´óÐã Taster

    How we built Ö÷²¥´óÐã Taster

    The development team worked to an adapted agile framework called Kanban doing continuous delivery, we used tools such as Jira and Trello, doing live releases pretty much every day.

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  10. New Ö÷²¥´óÐã Ö÷²¥´óÐãpage on mobile

    New Ö÷²¥´óÐã Ö÷²¥´óÐãpage on mobile

    After three years though, the designs were beginning to look a bit dated, particularly on mobile. We were also aware that from a technology standpoint, we could improve the Ö÷²¥´óÐãpage’s resilience and how it handled the saving of your location settings.

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