Mac OS X | Home / Education | Hobbies | MacXM | A great piece of software

MacXM

XMPCR control program

Version: 1.33

[ Views: 496 ]

A great piece of software

Feedback Type: Review

Contributed by: bergerjs Sunday, February 01 2004 @ 08:43 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: YES

For something not supported by XM themselves, this is a great piece of software. Controls well, although two good features would be a volume control (in a setup using lineIn and going through an iMac's speakers, things are pretty loud even having all system settings turned down as far as possible), and not having the software snap back to the selected channel when browsing around the whole lineup. Otherwise, great!

Overall Rating:

Ease of Use:

Support:

Features:

Quality / Stability:

Rate this Review

Was this Review helpful? Yes | No

Comments

A great piece of software - nsayer

Thanks for the kind words. I think I can help with a couple of things:

1. The hardware doesn't have any ability to provide a volume control (other than mute or unmute). It sounds like the volume control feature might be a good request for the folks at RogueAmoeba if you're using LineIn to get the audio into your mac. Some other folks ask for equalization. The answer is the same for that.

2. The grid is snapping back to your selection because it is still probably filling in channels and/or genres. When it is done (usually within 30 seconds or so the first time you run MacXM on an activated PCR), you will be able to scroll around the grid without it snapping back to the current channel. Of course, you can always force it to snap back with Command-L (like in iTunes).

Reply to This

Monday, February 09 2004 @ 08:22 PM PST