RealPlayer 10.1 - Universal... RadioTuner too!
Hi everybody,
I have been really, really pleased with the popularity of the RadioTuner widget. It's great to make a difference in the Mac-World.
Today, real.com has released a new version of their RealPlayer... and, yipee, it's a universal binary. Now, theoretically, the RadioTuner widget works on Intel Macs.
Unfortunately, I don't have one of those fancy new Macs. Any feedback from an Intel Mac user that has tried the RadioTuner widget? Please.
Cheers,
Markus
here the links to the new RealPlayer:
- MacUpdate
- download link on MacUpdate
- if you really want to get it through the real.com site and have to go through a registration process, use this link. ;)
I have been really, really pleased with the popularity of the RadioTuner widget. It's great to make a difference in the Mac-World.
Today, real.com has released a new version of their RealPlayer... and, yipee, it's a universal binary. Now, theoretically, the RadioTuner widget works on Intel Macs.
Unfortunately, I don't have one of those fancy new Macs. Any feedback from an Intel Mac user that has tried the RadioTuner widget? Please.
Cheers,
Markus
here the links to the new RealPlayer:
- MacUpdate
- download link on MacUpdate
- if you really want to get it through the real.com site and have to go through a registration process, use this link. ;)
posted by Markus Wuersch @ 5:28 PM
27 Comments:
At 4:24 PM,
Anonymous said…
Im listening to my favourite radio station on a MacBook Pro! Of course with the Radiotuner Widget ;-)
At 2:16 PM,
Anonymous said…
Works with an intel Mac Mini
At 12:53 AM,
Anonymous said…
I couldn't get it to work, but I believe Realplayer is to blame. The free version doesn't seem to have radio enabled, and I refuse to pay $20 for another media player just to listen to the radio.
I would very much appreciate it if you could work in the ability to listen to other formats, Quicktime being the most important for me on Mac.
From the looks of it, you've got a great widget. I just wish I could use it.
At 1:41 PM,
Markus Wuersch said…
The free version of RealPlayer has all the necessary plugins. I had a similar problem after the initial installation of their lates version (10.1). Try to reinstall RealPlayer again (the FREE version).
Hope this helps.
Markus
At 6:25 PM,
Markus Wuersch said…
nick,
all you need to develop a widget is some experience in html, javascript, and css.
The rest is explained here: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/dashboard.html
At 4:01 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hi,
thanks for this little but very useful and nice widget.
At least it would be the most used widget of mine, if it would support .ogg for listening to my favourite ratdio station - fm4 ;)
Thanks Markus!
At 4:10 PM,
Anonymous said…
geils widget... ändlech mau eis mit realplayer... thx a lot
At 11:21 AM,
Anonymous said…
Marcus, yr widget works fine on intel mac button I cant adjust the volume on your slider!! - the whole widget moves about the screen instead. - any ideas? Regards Rex
At 11:22 AM,
Anonymous said…
Marcus, yr widget works fine on intel mac button but I cant adjust the volume on your slider!! - the whole widget moves about the screen instead. - any ideas? Regards Rex
At 6:16 AM,
Anonymous said…
some stations work but some crash
At 6:49 PM,
Anonymous said…
The volume slider does work - click either side of the button, don't try to drag it.
At 6:55 PM,
Anonymous said…
The only feature I would like to see added (and I think is essential for a radio app) is display of the current song. Other than that RadioTuner is an ideal widget.
At 4:39 PM,
Anonymous said…
Great app! I have been looking for something like this for quite a while.
One question: do you know of any good links for finding good radio stations? I mean, the tiny descriptions for each station does not say much. There must a community somewhere out there where people share info about radio stations? "I am looking for a US American station corresponding to BBC 4. Can anybody recommend something?"
/MagnusG!
At 7:05 AM,
Anonymous said…
some streams work in Real Player, but refuse to play in the widget.
Seems to have different reasons
1. These streams stop to play after a second:
Maximum.ru
http://ware.catv.ext.ru:8000/maximum128.mp3
Jazz.ru
http://ware.catv.ext.ru:8000/radiojazz128.mp3
2. This Station doesn't play in the widget but plays in Realplayer:
Prolocation Radio
http://213.73.255.244:10600/
Maybe You can fix this?
Thanks a lot!
At 11:57 AM,
ronak said…
Hi, i got a new macbook with intel processor and tried to play a radio station with the radiotuner but wouldnt play. however the same radio station plays on the real player that is installed. Can any body plz help me?
thank you
radi station: http://www.radioteentaal.com/real.ram
At 9:01 AM,
ronak said…
The radiotuner started working perfectly and for those who had trouble with volume control, if you right click you have an option to increase or decrease volume.
At 2:06 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hi. The app fails with both the Real and win streams. I can hear them well on the browser, so it must be the widget. I have a PowerBook G4.
At 12:10 AM,
Anonymous said…
For some strange reason, I have TWO radiotuners on my dashboard. How do I get rid of one of them?
At 9:28 PM,
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At 1:43 PM,
Anonymous said…
I downloaded radiotuner, then flip4mac and realplayer. So everything seem to be ok. However, Buureradio.ch did not work. I entered the link several time, no way http://live-one.dmd2.ch/buureradio/buureradio.m3u.
Then I reinstalled radiotuner again, and hopp de Bäse, everthing works as intended.
Vile Dank
At 9:01 AM,
Anonymous said…
Works great on duo core mac mini...one thing I noticed is I leave the machine on all the time and radio tuners memory usage grows if also left on..this am it was eating up 128 mb...shut it off and on again and it's back to 17 or so...using fliptomac on a win station.
At 3:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
I have an Intel iMac and I can't get the streams to stop using your turner. The only thing that seems to work is removing the widget from the dashboard. Anyone see this before?
At 12:52 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!
At 7:49 PM,
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