BBC Radio 1.7
Sunday, 16th October 2005, 2:00 am
Superseded by version 2.2.
Seems like only a short while ago I released v1.6… This new version adds local radio listings. Yes, all 40 stations. It took a long time!
Superseded by version 2.2.
Seems like only a short while ago I released v1.6… This new version adds local radio listings. Yes, all 40 stations. It took a long time!
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October 20th, 2005 at 11:33 am
Hi Hawkman,
Thanks for all your hard work - it’s great to see all the local radio listing added now!
I still have an issue with the pre-streaming of audio though (i.e. when Dashboard is active but no music is actually playing from your widget), thus tying up the DSL to a certain extent.
Is it possible for you to make pre-streaming a switchable option? I appreciate that it improves response times for starting ‘play’, but it’d be nice if this was a user-option, as I’d rather not have to disable the widget completely when not wanting it to tie up a portion of the DSL…
Thanks - all the best,
Jason
October 21st, 2005 at 5:35 pm
I do not get play and volume buttons - only two Java icons.
Any suggestions?
October 22nd, 2005 at 9:50 pm
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Don’t quite know why. I press the play button but get no response. Other times it will work. When I change the station it often will not work after that.
I have downloaded RealPlayer10 and it works OK.
When it does work its great!
Any ideas??
October 24th, 2005 at 11:29 am
This is an absolutely amazine widget. My favourite ever. Congratulations.
October 25th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
Tends not to work for me. On load it tells me I have no internet connection, when all other widgets are connecting, then when that resolves itself a while later, it doesn’t work. Only got it to work once so far.
October 28th, 2005 at 9:21 am
Andy - You need Mac OS 10.4.2 or better for this version of the widget, otherwise you’ll experience erratic behaviour like that!
October 28th, 2005 at 9:23 am
Jules - You need to install Real Player. http://www.real.com/.
Peter - Interesting problem. It sounds a hell of a lot like the older-version-of-Real-Player problem, but you say you’re running 10. Hmm.
November 5th, 2005 at 3:55 pm
I can’t listen to live sporting events on five live. It says ” Due to contractual obligations, we cannot give you the live program on five live.” It says that on some other channels too. What do I do?
November 6th, 2005 at 10:45 am
Well, uh, unless you’re going to renegotiate 5 Live’s contracts…. there’s not a lot you can do! You could write a letter of complaint.
November 11th, 2005 at 9:25 pm
Works about 1 out of 10 tries. When working, always will quit when station changed. Mac OS 10.4.3, RealOne Player 9.0
December 6th, 2005 at 12:39 pm
The icon doesn’t change when I change channels - just stays showing “Radio 1″ icon. Other than that it’s great
January 3rd, 2006 at 9:49 pm
downloaded widget but doesnt work. just get two java icons same as jules. Any ideas?
January 4th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
James - please see my response to Jules five posts above yours!
Peter - You need Real Player 10.
The answer to 99% of the problems that are reported is: Install Real Player 10! It’s listed as a requirement on the download pages… Seriously, please try this before posting a question guys and girls!
January 29th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
When I put the computer to sleep, there is an error message on wake-up. The message is from Real Player (network connection lost etc.) so you may not be able to do anything about it - but it would be nice if you could stop it happening, or hijack it with your own friendlier message (I’m thinking of my computer-illiterate father, for whom this widget is intended!). Or maybe just make the widget stop when the computer goes to sleep? Thanks!
February 11th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
I love this widget, but…
I want to have multiple instances of the widget each set to a different station so that I can easily swich between my favorite stations. This works except that after a restart all the instances are set to the same station. Any chanace that you could fix/implement this feature?
I am using MacOS 10.4.4 and Real Player 10.0.0
Thanks
March 11th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
I’m afraid this widget is not working for me. I have RealPlayer v10, OSX 10.4.5, a DSL internet connection and an iMac Intel G5. Any ideas?
Thanks
Wayne
March 11th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Wayne - Real Player isn’t yet a universal binary, so running the plugin inside an Intel-native app such as Dashboard isn’t possible yet, sorry.