Yuck!
I see there have been changes in SC7.3 to the Internet Radio menu.
The Radio Time plugin menus are now expanded out directly under the Internet
Radio menu. This is weird. I've now got 14 menu choices within Internet
Music. Why has Radio Time been singled out (will all Internet Radio station
providers be expanded out too)?
I don't like the random order they are listed in (weighted I guess, but
third-party plugins added to the list that I would consider more important are
bunged at the bottom).
Internet Radio
Staff Picks
Local
Music
Talk
By Region
Search
Radio IO
Live365
SHOUTcast
Alien BBC
BBC iPlayer
My Radio Stations
RadioFeeds UK & Ireland
Tune In URL
I never browse By Region (if I browse at all, I look at Local, which is my own
region - why would I want to browse Africa, etc?). I never browse Talk
stations either (which only contains USA stations, even though my chosen Region
is UK), so these menu choices are just chaff for me, and there's no way to get
rid of them.
The best solution would be a proper menu configuration editor (you can change
menus as they are presented on a SB UI, but only to a high-level). Allow the
user to pick what items they want to see, and the order they should appear in.
A better default in my opinion would be:
Internet Radio
My Radio Stations
Radio Station Providers
Alien BBC
BBC iPlayer
Live365
Radio IO
RadioFeeds UK & Ireland
SHOUTcast
Staff Picks
Tune In
Another idea would be to provide an Internet Radio > Search option, but allow
the search provider to be selected from one of the providers, a bit like
configuring Internet Explorer's default search engine, etc. By default, the
search provider could be for one of the built-in plugins, but the user could
choose a different one. Even better, make an Internet Radio Search that
combined the results from all radio station providers.
As discussed by many users in other threads, My Radio Stations is missing.
Something should be done to put this back, or produce some alternative (storing
in a sub-folder of Favourites is not a great alternative).
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