Comments on: Improved MP3 Streaming With Radioshift 1.1.1

By: Curious Stranger

Curious Stranger — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:54:57 +0000

“but requires that a lot of backend infrastructure run on your machine”

Couldn’t it be accomplished with a simple rss file and a file: URL fed to iTunes? The upside of getting the files in as podcasts is that it can easily be used as any other podcast. Apple has an unfortunate tendency to treat podcasts as somehow “different” from other audio files that manifests itself in different ways. Apple TV, for example, can’t play mixed playlists of podcasts and music. They are forcibly separated out. So, if I have a playlist of my latest podcasts and RadioShift programming I can’t listen to them together on the Apple TV.

By: Paul Kafasis

Paul Kafasis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:17:33 +0000

CuriousStranger: We have various ideas on how best to automate exporting to iTunes. Simulating podcast feeds is one way to do it, but requires that a lot of backend infrastructure run on your machine. Thus far, we’ve not wanted to be tied to that. Simple auto-exporting is easier, and has been on our list to consider. So, we’ll see what happens.

Ton: Radioshift Touch is still in development. However, the 1.0 is very different from what you may be after. We have no plans for remote control of Radioshift on the Mac at this time – they’ll exist as two distinct applications (keep in mind that we have no Windows version of Radioshift, nor plans for one, and that the iPhone is cross-platform). For now, Radioshift Touch will be all about listening to online radio.

By: Ton

Ton — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:23:22 +0000

Hi Guy(s). Just curious: how’s the iPhone version coming along? I expect great things there, besides the ability to listen to my RadioTimed faves, like remote controlling Radioshift and setting up remote recordings/subscriptions.

By: Curious Stranger

Curious Stranger — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:57:45 +0000

Greetings,

I’ve been using RadioShift since it was released and think it’s great. However, I’ve made the suggestion before, and I’ll make it again so it’s not forgotten – some sort of automated export to iTunes is really needed to get the most out of this tool. I’ve put my own together with Hazel (http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php) which more or less works, however it requires me to go in after the fact and clean out old entries in the RadioShift UI. An auto-export to iTunes would be fantastic, or maybe even a local podcast feed that could be subscribed to by iTunes! It’s really the only missing link in this great software.

By: Paul Kafasis

Paul Kafasis — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:51:38 +0000

poingg: What link are you having trouble with? Every link we test works just fine.

By: poingg

poingg — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:13:58 +0000

Hi, Just to notify you that the download link for Radioshift is broken!
It also affects auto-updates for previous versions of course.

By: Paul Kafasis

Paul Kafasis — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:52:18 +0000

Johnathan Grant: As far as MP3Pro goes, I don’t think that will ever happen. There are extremely high licensing fees for it, and very, very few stations use it – I think it’s fairly dead, or dying. AAC+ has a chance, and we’re watching that. We’ll see what happens in the future with that.

Neil: You definitely can listen to a stream as it records, the UI has just changed a bit. If you look at the Subscription, you’ll see the Recordings table. As a Recording is active, you can click the Listen button to tune in.

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By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:07:54 +0000

it seems Radioshift as lot the ability to play the stream it is recording?

By: Johnathan Grant

Johnathan Grant — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:58:54 +0000

It would be nice if Radioshift could record and play back MP3Pro streams (such as those from Live365) and AACplus streams (such as those at tuner2.com).

(FWIW, I realize that MP3Pro streams are technically “compatible” but I would like the decoder to also read the “Pro” part of the stream.)