Ideas
Comment this posting if you have any ideas or comments about the RadioTuner widget.
posted by Markus Wuersch @ 10:43 AM
Blog around the RadioTuner widget for Mac OS X.
posted by Markus Wuersch @ 10:43 AM
21 Comments:
At 5:52 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hi Markus,
Great widget indeed! I have not used a Widget to listen to radios yet because I do listen many of them, and I did not want to have many widgets open at the same time!!!
Do you think you could add Quicktime and/or Windows Media support? That is, the widget would load the player depending on the stream type... that would be absolutely great but I don't know how hard it would be.
Thanks and keep it up!
Adrian
At 3:26 PM,
Markus Wuersch said…
Adrian,
I completely agree that it would be great if RadioTuner supported different media types. I will look into extending the widget but I can't promise you anything.
Thanks for the input,
Markus
At 8:58 PM,
Anonymous said…
Nice Widget you got there.
I actually downloaded it some time ago and never used it till now :-)
It is really cool.
But the slider for volume doesn't seem to work like it should.
You can only "click" the amount of volume you want but you cannot slide.
Is this just a bug with my computer, or is this normal ?
Greetings,
Florian
At 8:50 AM,
Markus Wuersch said…
Hi Florian,
I have noticed the bug with the volume slider... but, so far I have not figured out why it behaves like that.
I guess the good news for you is that it's not a bug with your computer. :)
Markus
At 7:40 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hey great widget but i was wondering if you could make it better looking maybe by having different radio mock up skins
At 6:09 AM,
Anonymous said…
hi Markus,
Fantastic widget, I love it already.
Might I suggest a little improvement that would make it a total killer.
what if the list of streams (url) were available to download to update the widget's list of stations?...
And what if that list were an RSS file so that url changes (which I found do happen sometimes) would be updated as well!
Keep up the good work
At 10:56 AM,
Anonymous said…
This probably isn't possible but I'd love to be able to see the name of the song and artist that I'm listening to, like XM radio does. That would rock!. I hear so much good music on some of these stations and I'd love to be able to buy some of the CD's of the artists.
At 10:56 AM,
Anonymous said…
This probably isn't possible but I'd love to be able to see the name of the song and artist that I'm listening to, like XM radio does. That would rock!. I hear so much good music on some of these stations and I'd love to be able to buy some of the CD's of the artists.
At 8:34 AM,
Anonymous said…
Interesting. Do you have any plans for supporting Flip4Mac (Windows Media streams)?
At 7:21 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hi Markus,
I just downloaded this great widget !!! Works fine and it's so cool to directly start listening to my radios.
A few ideas ( I don't know if possible but here we go) :
The name, artists, etc informations could be showed on a space on the widget.
Some kind of connection to itunes so through it to play the radio to the stereo connected by airport express.
At 8:28 PM,
Anonymous said…
Quicktime supports many Windows Media streams through the use of the previously mentioned Flip4Mac. I'm suggesting this because maybe Quicktime integration is a first step, where Windows Media would follow easily.
Good work so far.
At 8:20 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hi Markus, great little widget.
Unlike others I really like it's simplicity and don't feel the need to see more info on the streams or to have different skins.
The only thing that I would add (apart from playing qt/wm streams) would be a basic way to sort the Station Titles.
Nice one,
Nick
At 1:07 PM,
nie aufgeben! said…
Hallo Markus
Das ist ja vielleicht mal ein tolles Widget! Kompliment!
Und es läuft auch im Hintergrund. Wirklich erfreulich. Vielen Dank!
Ob es wohl möglich ist, die Sender-Liste automatisch alphabetisieren zu lassen? Hat glaub ich hier auch schon jemand gewünscht. Jaja, die vielen Wünsche immer. Aber wir machen dann auch schön Werbung für dein Super-Widget. :-)
Fröhliche Grüsse!
Re.
At 4:13 PM,
Anonymous said…
Doktor:
How bout playing mp3 streams? I don't like the way iTunes' interface handles radio streams-- too much clicking.
Plus, you've got a bunch of .pls stations listed on your directory of radio stations ... kind of odd since right now your widget can't play them.
think about it
At 8:15 AM,
Anonymous said…
Many stations I listen to use Flash instead of a RealPlayer or WMP browser plugin. One such example is at:
http://www.edge102.com/station/sp_player_faq.cfm
(the 102.1 listen live stream, not the 'Allan Cross', 'Next Big Thing' etc links)
The help link for these stations mentions WMP, so I believe that it's in there somewhere, but I haven't been able to find a URL that works with the tuner widget.
If there was any way to get these types of stations working with the tuner widget it would be appreciated.
At 12:53 AM,
Anonymous said…
fyi: 'DLF' has cross-posted this comment to the '10.1' section of this blog ....
yes, i do recall that there are specific apps for recording streams (without qt pro) .... but my request here is based on the idea that it would be simpler for you to be able to add support for recording by leveraging qtpro rather than having to build-up your own qt componetry yourself.
so with that in mind :-) .... it would be really nice if radiotuner could save streams (with qt pro) the same way the QT controls allows inside a 'regular' browser.
since web browsers are sooooo unstable, it is often hard to predict when a browser will not be availible for recording streams (due to bad jscripts causing a hang; or non-async responses under heavy loads of tabs etc etc; we all know the drill, sadly).
equally, re-launching a modern (session-saving) browser now has the perverse side-effect of hobbling the mac while it restores the state (with all the tabs) of the browser at crash/F-quit ... which can easily tie up the machine for 5-20 minutes!!!!! Nor is their any joy trying to login as another user - even with fast switching into an already initialized account - when a machine under heavy load (or bogged down by several - CASCADING! - unresponsive apps). A delay of this magnitude is clearly useless when wants to snag a stream (even if one knows the broascast schedule in advance, murphy's law tells us that one will only have 15 seconds to get ready to record before the stream starts!)
so for me, the attraction of the radioplayer widget is that i can have everything preconfigured & hopefully by-pass the browser nightmare.
but without a recording facility, the benefit is lost.
so adding this as a future would be the difference between a nice-to-have and a must-have app!
thanx: david
ps: it would be nice if your widget had a drawer for RSS ... many times one doesnt have a chance to check what is playing until the last minute (or often when it is too late!) -- being able to monitor an originating web site & then link a particular time into iCal / ToDo would really take out alot of the baby-sitting invloved now with recording favorite streams (only feasible for leopard? ;-) ... for tiger, can you add support for Automator (and osax/applescript), so that other workflows can be built around your widget?
pps #1 here is a strange gremlin with qtpro & web browsers which you migth be able to explain to me: not all of the qtmovie controls are availible for the SAME stream depending on how the link is presented!
{Specifically, somethimes the SAVE command is /not/ availible from the disclosure triangle at the end of the movieframe, where the qt plugin settings etc are usually presented}
[DETAILS POSTED VIA EMAIL]
pps #2: a really imporant gap in the mac streaming situation is that the bowser plugins (firefox) to capture proprietary/Flash movies (youtube etc) is only availible for windows!!! If you could also work on that, i am sure you would find a very receptive market!!
pps #3: i know qtpor doesnt record realplayer (and the premise right off the top was that qtpro obviates the need for you to worry about the plumbing of how recorders work) ... but nonetheless is there a reason why you couldnt consider createing a capture facility for realplayer?
pps #4: [ADDED AFTER THE EMAIL] Station ID?
i know that physical analog radio offers some hybrid digital info via side-channel (smoc) which can (presumably) be retained for playlists by FM recording hardware (eg Shark?) .... but how easy it for the RadioTurner widget to extract the meta-data from a a digital [internet not terrestrial DAB] radio stream -- eg is it in ID3 format?
assuming that it is feasible to extract/monitor the meta-data, can radiotuner co-ordinate the use of the descriptors with other apps (eg itunes or any other xml datastore and/or any oher osax event agent?).
just a little bit off-topic ;-) it would be really SWEET if inet audio (streams) had some special header/format that could be used by a web-based service-discovery so that schedules/calandars could generate/sync-up reminders (via SMS or ichat or 'rendezvous'/bonjour or remcon/frontrow or RSS) ... being able to RESPOND (a wrapper for ssh/apple-event) to the reminder would be the cat's meow!
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