I'm trying to learn Objective C as a side hobby, so it's possible, but it won't be any time soon, I'm afraid. You could potentially run it with Parallels or on a Windows virtual machine on your Mac...?
TheEndless
SiriusStreamer v1.0 beta release (uSirius Replacement)
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No problem. I sort of gave the rundown before, but a little more detail: first save the ASX playlist that I've posted here (the first one) and make the changes I noted (open it in wordpad and use the 'replace' feature to put your IP in the URLs, and change it from a TXT to a ASX file). Then place it in My Music\My Playlists on your media center PC (you may not have a 'My Playlists' folder already... in that case, create it) and update the windows media player library and wait to see the playlist listed in media player. Remember that Media Center basically *is* windows media player under the hood, so anything that gets in the WMP library will show up in WMC. Now in Windows Media Center, just go to your music, then to playlists, and you should see "Sirius Satellite Radio" there. Go into it and pick a channel and you're off and running.
Awesome, wasn't expecting that so fast. I will of course immediately test any update.
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I was up until 6AM last night/morning getting the initial release ready.. I might just test your "immediately"...
Haha, well note how fast I responded to your initial announcement and what time that was...I was up until 6AM last night/morning getting the initial release ready.. I might just test your "immediately"...
I will just mention one more time the other strange occurrence... and that is when a channel is played, my playlist <entry> <title> for that channel will get replaced by the main <title> ("Sirius Satellite Radio") in the queue. Weird. Hopefully that's part of the same problem you've identified.
Cool. Now you probably have the strange issues I've been talking about... however, Endless may just be fixing those as we speak. When it works the way Usirius did, you won't see your playlist title info get messed with when you start them.
Foobar2000 playlists problem
I was jazzed up when TheEndless gave me the tip of Add Location > M3U URL This creates a playlist with the long sirius url and it works.
However if I restart the computer, none of these url work anymore. I am guessing that each time SiriusStreamer logs into Sirius, those new url are different from the previous session.
Is that correct, does the url for the stream change with subsequent login / logout of SiriusStreamer?
If so, I have to figure out how to get foobar2000 to somehow automatically refresh those links or I will have to manually copy and paste them each time I reboot or restart a program.
Any foobar2000 advice?
I was jazzed up when TheEndless gave me the tip of Add Location > M3U URL This creates a playlist with the long sirius url and it works.
However if I restart the computer, none of these url work anymore. I am guessing that each time SiriusStreamer logs into Sirius, those new url are different from the previous session.
Is that correct, does the url for the stream change with subsequent login / logout of SiriusStreamer?
If so, I have to figure out how to get foobar2000 to somehow automatically refresh those links or I will have to manually copy and paste them each time I reboot or restart a program.
Any foobar2000 advice?
How to use with Orb?
Thank you for this program to replace Usirius. I have been lost for weeks without it. I had previously used Usirius to generate the URLs needed to add custom channels in the program called Orb. The format was mms://192.168.2.X:19080/ etc.
How can I use the SiriusStreamer the same way? When I add the URL listed in the channel lineup it doesn not work. I have tried changing the hhtp to mms with no luck. Any suggestions?
Thanks again for this program. It is super cool and much appreciated!!
Thank you for this program to replace Usirius. I have been lost for weeks without it. I had previously used Usirius to generate the URLs needed to add custom channels in the program called Orb. The format was mms://192.168.2.X:19080/ etc.
How can I use the SiriusStreamer the same way? When I add the URL listed in the channel lineup it doesn not work. I have tried changing the hhtp to mms with no luck. Any suggestions?
Thanks again for this program. It is super cool and much appreciated!!
OK, i installed the program on my windows PC, but when I try to change channels, I get the old channel still coming thru in audio on top of the new channel- and I cant get the program to stop without force quitting...any help?
New SiriusStreamer 1.1.0 released
I've posted a new version (1.1.0). This version should fix most of the issues that have been reported since the initial release. The change log is as follows:
You should be able use the "Help->Check For Updates" menu option in the program to download the new version, or grab it here: http://www.permanence.com/sirius/files/SiriusStreamer110.msi
As always, your feedback is welcomed and encouraged!
Thanks...
TheEndless
I've posted a new version (1.1.0). This version should fix most of the issues that have been reported since the initial release. The change log is as follows:
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1.1.0
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- Added direct MMS streaming
- Added ability to select favorite channels
- Added ability to generate playlists
- Added ability to select default stream format
- Added cache control headers to prevent urls from being cached
- Added change log to update check
- Updated ASX and M3U files to include channel namesAs always, your feedback is welcomed and encouraged!
Thanks...
TheEndless
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If you're playing them locally on your machine through siriusstreamer itself, it will open a new tab in your browser for the next channel so you just have to close the previous tab manually. Maybe that would be a good little update to the program... to have it replace the existing open tab instead of opening a new one, so that wouldn't be an issue.
I don't really have control over where the URL is opened. I rely on Windows to determine that.
BTW, the new playlist feature in 1.1.0 should generate the playlist automatically in the format you're looking for.
TheEndless
Well I think if he puts the server into the new default MMS mode, the channel should open in media player instead of the browser. That would eliminate overlapping channels playing.
Anyway, good news and bad news for me:
Now on my Media Center PC, everything works like it should. No more "Reflector:XXXXX" sightings and no more borking of my playlist info. Great.
The extender though... still no go. Now, when I try to play a channel, the extender just freezes up indefinitely and the only thing I can do is turn it off and back on. So far I have tried my playlist the original way it was, with tacking on "&format=asx" on the end, and then with setting the default protocol to MMS.
There's one clue I can give you, and that is that the requests in the log are different between the MC and the extender:
Media Center request in log has just one "Retrieving" entry:
"Retrieving MMS URL for Channel 'XX'"
But when the request comes from the extender, I see these two back to back:
"Retrieving ASX for channel 'XX'"
"Retrieving MMS URL for channel 'XX'"
Good clue about what's happening? Should I try changing the playlist to the MMS links? I'll try it.
One other thing. This shouldn't matter, but I run SiriusStreamer on my desktop in my office. My Media Center PC is a separate machine in the living room. It's not all on the same box.
I'm trying to figure out your playlist feature. It generates a WPL file but I don't know exactly how that's going to give me a list of channels on media center.
Requesting the ASX version calls the MMS method as well, so that would be expected. I'd definitely try using the MMS links instead.
The playlist feature should generate the exact same ASX playlist format that you posted previously. I'm not sure where you're getting a WPL from... ?
TheEndless
Remade the playlist with all mms links, still same result: OK on the PC, freezes the extender.
I must be missing something about the playlist generation. If I select the "Playlists" and "All Channels" dropdowns and then copy, I get this:
http://10.15.16.220:51710/channelplaylist?category=&genre=
Opening it will start playing all channels, starting at 1. But how do I get that to turn into a full-fledged playlist? All I can do is skip from one channel to the next but there's no visual channel listing. I didn't know what to do so I opened it in Media Player and then saved it as a playlist... that's how I got a WPL out of it.
Odd... try right-clicking the link in your last post and choose to save it to disk. That should give you the ASX playlist with whichever link format you chose on the Configuration tab.
I would have expected using the URL to function the same as your static file. In fact, it works exactly like that when I launch it in WMP.
Is that not what you're seeing?
TheEndless
Odd... try right-clicking the link in your last post and choose to save it to disk. That should give you the ASX playlist with whichever link format you chose on the Configuration tab.
I would have expected using the URL to function the same as your static file. In fact, it works exactly like that when I launch it in WMP.
Is that not what you're seeing?
TheEndless
I knew it was something stupid. OK. If I would have just hit "Save Page as..." after it opened in the browser, I would have had it.
Unfortunately, using it produces the same results: freezes the extender. I don't know what else to say. It used to work and nothing about my setup has changed since it did. SiriusStreamer receives the channel request in the log, but then extender just locks up and nothing plays.
i never used usirius, so can you give me a brief description of what this program is used for?
i always used the sirius widget, but while i am waiting for that to be updated, i am trying out other programs (which seems to be just your new program and steam_on that has been updated after the change on the sirius side).
i always used the sirius widget, but while i am waiting for that to be updated, i am trying out other programs (which seems to be just your new program and steam_on that has been updated after the change on the sirius side).
What extender and what version of Media Center are you using? I have Windows 7 Media Center and a DMA2100, but it seems to be DOA. I can try it on my 360 to see if I can determine the problem, but it may not produce the same results.
TheEndless