but how easy it for the RadioTurner widget to extract the meta-data from a a digital radio stream - eg is it in ID3 format? assuming that it is feasible to extract/monitor the meta-data, can radiotuner co-ordinate the use of the descriptors with other apps (eg itunes or any other xml datastore and/or any oher osax event agent?). but nonetheless is there a reason why you couldnt consider createing a capture facility for realplayer? pps #4: Station ID? i know that physical analog radio offers some hybrid digital info via side-channel (smoc) which can (presumably) be retained for playlists by FM recording hardware (eg Shark?).
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for tiger, can you add support for Automator (and osax/applescript), so that other workflows can be built around your widget? pps #1 here is a strange gremlin with qtpro & web browsers which you migth be able to explain to me: not all of the qtmovie controls are availible for the SAME stream depending on how the link is presented! pps #2: a really imporant gap in the mac streaming situation is that the bowser plugins (firefox) to capture proprietary/Flash movies (youtube etc) is only availible for windows!!! If you could also work on that, i am sure you would find a very receptive market!! pps #3: i know qtpor doesnt record realplayer (and the premise right off the top was that qtpro obviates the need for you to worry about the plumbing of how recorders work). many times one doesnt have a chance to check what is playing until the last minute (or often when it is too late!) - being able to monitor an originating web site & then link a particular time into iCal / ToDo would really take out alot of the baby-sitting invloved now with recording favorite streams (only feasible for leopard? -). so adding this as a future would be the difference between a nice-to-have and a must-have app! thanx: david ps: it would be nice if your widget had a drawer for RSS. but without a recording facility, the benefit is lost. A delay of this magnitude is clearly useless when wants to snag a stream (even if one knows the broascast schedule in advance, murphy's law tells us that one will only have 15 seconds to get ready to record before the stream starts!) so for me, the attraction of the radioplayer widget is that i can have everything preconfigured & hopefully by-pass the browser nightmare. which can easily tie up the machine for 5-20 minutes!!!!! Nor is their any joy trying to login as another user - even with fast switching into an already initialized account - when a machine under heavy load (or bogged down by several - CASCADING! - unresponsive apps). equally, re-launching a modern (session-saving) browser now has the perverse side-effect of hobbling the mac while it restores the state (with all the tabs) of the browser at crash/F-quit. since web browsers are sooooo unstable, it is often hard to predict when a browser will not be availible for recording streams (due to bad jscripts causing a hang or non-async responses under heavy loads of tabs etc etc we all know the drill, sadly). it would be really nice if radiotuner could save streams (with qt pro) the same way the QT controls allows inside a 'regular' browser. but my request here is based on the idea that it would be simpler for you to be able to add support for recording by leveraging qtpro rather than having to build-up your own qt componetry yourself. yes, i do recall that there are specific apps for recording streams (without qt pro). Fyi: 'DLF' has cross-posted this comment to the '10.1' section of this blog.
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