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User Name christianturner
Member Since 2004-04-16
Total number of Feedback Posts: 9
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Last 10 Feedback Posts by christianturner [ Search for All ]
Streamers 28 (Mac OS X)
Feedback requested on RealPlayer 10 final
Streamers 28 worked fine with RealPlayer 10 beta and with RealOne - the earlier version. I'm now encountering some odd bugs with the final version of RealPlayer 10. If you're using the non-beta RealPlayer 10, please let me know by email (see help file) whether Streamers is working properly for you and what sort of trouble, if any, you're having. Note that only streams whose Stream Format is set to Real, rather than Other, ought be affected. Thanks. [alert admin]
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Sunday, October 03 2004 @ 09:47 AM PDT
Streamers 28 (Mac OS X)
Streamers needs to be dragged to Applications
The way I packaged up the latest version might lead to problems. In order for iCal to find Streamers (and so for scheduled recordings to work), Streamers (the app itself - not the folder containing the app) needs to be dragged to the Applications folder. So when you download, open the folder containing the version of Streamers you want (for RealPlayer 10 or RealPlayer 9) and drag the Streamers app to your Applications folder. I'll probably package the next version differently to avoid this wrinkle. [alert admin]
Thursday, August 26 2004 @ 04:20 PM PDT
Streamers 28 (Mac OS X)
The version 28 package contains three folders. One contains the version 28 binary (with source and help) for RealPlayer 10 users. There are no enhancements from version 26, aside from the support for RealPlayer 10. The second folder contains version 26 of Streamers for users of older versions of RealPlayer. The upshot: if you already have version 26 and are not using RealPlayer 10, then there's no need to download the new version. [alert admin]
Monday, August 16 2004 @ 06:50 AM PDT
Streamers 26 (Mac OS X)
One user helpfully emailed me concerning problems with the Car Talk Library item. It indeed does not work. You can download (and the Import into Streamers) a data file from "http://homepage.mac.com/christianturner/Streamers25.data that contains a working Car Talk item, as well as some French radio items with which I have been helping another user. The Car Talk item now opens the stream through the browser first, rather than directly in RealOne Player - which is for several reasons less desirable.
By the way, I'd love for people to post or to send to me their Libraries - I'll post them for others to download and Import. Just post or send the Streamers25.data file located in your ~/Library/Preferences directory. [alert admin]
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Monday, April 26 2004 @ 08:43 AM PDT
Streamers 26 (Mac OS X)
toad_DMC: You can do some monthly events
but not (yet) of the kind to which you refer. Streamers listens to iCal to get the recording schedule. So you can set up your recording as, say a weekly recording, and then go to iCal and change it to a monthly recording. Streamers understands monthly recordings but only of the following type: Record on the 12th of every month. It cannot yet properly interpret: Record on the 1st tuesday of every month. The cleancalendar() routine in Streamers needs to be modified to interpret such events. (The chief difficulty is that for recurring events, iCal only stores, as it should, the first day of the event. The others are computed based on the recurrence rule. Streamers, every time it is launched or finishes a recording, cleans up the calendar to move recurring events into the future - so that the first date of a recurring event is always the next one.)
This site: http://www.kanzaki.com/docs/ical/rrule.html contains a good summary of the recurrence rules, some of which iCal uses. Streamers needs to be able to interpret the BYDAY= rule when the frequency is monthly. [alert admin]
Saturday, April 24 2004 @ 04:53 AM PDT
Streamers 26 (Mac OS X)
Make sure you're getting the latest version!
Make sure you've downloaded version 26! Safari seems to maintain prior downloads in cache. If you're having difficulty, resetting Safari will permit you to download the proper version - as will using some other browser. You can also click on the alternate download link, which points to a different filename but the same file. Your download ought to be over 300k - if not, you're getting the old version. [alert admin]
Friday, April 23 2004 @ 11:05 AM PDT
Streamers 26 (Mac OS X)
Version 26 of Streamers adds the ability to record streams that play in QuickTime Player, iTunes, and Windows Media Player. In order to this, Streamers has to be able to quit (or stop) the player when the recording reaches an end. Else, the stream would continue to play. To accomplish this, Streamers tells these apps to qut at the end of a recording. However, because Streamers does this, Streamers won't work unless these programs are installed. And so... Streamers now requires Windows Media Player to be installed in order to work. Of course, you need never use wmp, but it has to be there. Anyone know a way around this? [alert admin]
Friday, April 23 2004 @ 10:57 AM PDT
Streamers 24 (Mac OS X)
WMA and generic stream support available
For those interested in an early look, I've posted a new version of Streamers - although I'm not "officially" releasing another version until v26, which will add the ability to import streamers data files.
This "interim" version, version 25, supports generic streams - meaning any audio file that can be opened via safari (including wma and quicktime files). I'd love to get some feedback from those of you who are looking for such support. Version 26 will be completely compatible with this version, so don't worry about trying out the new one.
It's available at :
http://homepage.mac.com/christianturner/streamers25.dmg.gz [alert admin]
Saturday, April 17 2004 @ 12:45 PM PDT
Streamers 24 (Mac OS X)
Nice to know that people find Streamers useful - and thank you all for your kind comments. Skywise: I agree completely that Streamers needs to support other streaming formats. I added hooks for this in the last version and should be able to add quicktime support shortly. I also have an idea of how to add support for any stream that can be opened in a helper app via safari, but I'm not yet certain it will work. (i.e., I may be able to add wma support, even though windows media is not sufficiently scriptable to be supported in the same way real and quicktime can be. In particular, wma shows won't allow auto-detecting the end of a stream, and so the user will have to specify a duration for such streams.) I'd love to hear others' thoughts on this - and on anything related to streamers for that matter. I'm also hoping to add the ability to import libraries. Allowing people to share will make it easier to find new streams and to expand one's library. Take care - C. [alert admin]
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Friday, April 16 2004 @ 06:45 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by christianturner [ Search for All ]
Outstanding!!! Seemless & stable. Thanks. (suggestions)
Thanks for the kind feeback! I think I probably could add an option to do what you ask. Maybe for each show, a menu that corresponds to encoding & bit rate - with selections like: default, 64kbs mp3, 64kbs aac, 128kbs mp3, etc. Default would do what Streamers does now, import every recording using the encoding and bit rate you have set in iTunes. As soon as real life gives me…
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Thursday, August 19 2004 @ 12:08 PM PDT
A great program that is missing a few Key elements
Skywise - just wanted to alert you that I've added wma support to Streamers - see the dev note I left.
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Saturday, April 17 2004 @ 12:47 PM PDT
