Re: xAP-Audio schema questions....

[patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

> >It strikes me we could do with defining some additional time
related
> >parameters for inclusion in the event reporting timeline including
> >
> >Duration  <mandatory>
> >StartTime <mandatory>
> >EndTime <mandatory>
> >CurrentTime  <mandatory>
> >ElapsedTime   <optional ?>
> >RemainingTime  <optional ?>

I didn't write the original schema, but I raised similar queries when
I was doing the xAP Rio stuff and I think these are already covered.
Notification events can be sent asynchronously, they don't have to be
sent in response to an explicit query. Perhaps Stuart et al can
comment? I also think there may be some undocumented extensions to the
published schema - is what is on xapautomation.org the latest and
greatest?


> >.. and that these should be sent periodically at a frequency that
is
> >configurable as different users might want tighter feedback. 10
secs
> >sounds a useful time for most implementations. Towards the end of
the
> >current track it may be desireable to increase the frequency of
events

I like the idea of a varying update frequency, sounds sensible to me.
If you wanted to get really sexy you could bump up the frequency
whenever a user initiated event occurred (a button was pressed etc),
for a few seconds...

HTH
Patrick