Hi David, Jude, and others,
I agree that Jude's problems playing radio streams may be local to his
setup, and that he might want to check whether the same behavior
persists if he tries to listen to radio stations from another
account. However, it sounds as though he's playing streams from
internet radio stations using iTunes as his default player rather than
playing the streams that are in iTunes Source list. (This is one of
the Advanced preference menu options: "Use iTunes for Internet
Playback" with a "Set" button).
If this is the case, the issue may be his Firewall settings under
System Preferences or some related issue.
If Jude is using Internet radio stations that he's streaming through
Safari, he can certainly bookmark these locations. It's also possible
to save such locations to your desktop (or to your Dock, if you use
the Automator workflow to "Put Items on the Dock" from Tim Kilburns'
web site) using a "Webloc" file. This is basically an alias you would
get if you did a drag and drop from your browser, and I have a post
that describes how to get the WeblocMaker app that will do this
accessibly:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg42602.html
(from the Archives, describes putting items in the Dock, and
WeblocMaker)
I'm not sure what the issue is with playlists and radio streams, but
under iTunes 8 it turns out that you can use copy and paste to add
radio streams to a playlist (credits to Scott Howell for discovering
this). You can also use copy and paste to playlists in general, and
to add to your iPod. This seems to be a byproduct of making iTunes 8
accessible to Windows.
Cheers,
Esther
On Dec 19, 2008, at 7:04 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Jude, I believe you are having system issues. I don't think ITunes
allows you to save anything much less radio stations on your
desktop, but I'm sure we can probably come up with an automator
action for placing on your desktop and launching the station from.
On Dec 19, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Cara Quinn wrote:
Jude, I don't see any of these issues on my end.
Thanks for your note…
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
1) Everytime any radio station gets played with iTunes quitting
iTunes is possible but starting iTunes up immediately after that
isn't without running verify disk; verify disk permissions, and
repair disk permissions, then restarting the computer.
2) When attempting a second start of iTunes the program goes into
deep space mode and gets lost. Attempting to quit iTunes with
command-shift-escape and telling the computer to force iTunes to
quit fails. The report information gets gathered but it's
impossible to send it to apple. That was probably a deliberately
locked door on apple's part.
3) with a particular radio station highlighted in the iTunes songs
list
the make playlist from selection option remains dimmed; maybe this
is
for situations when multiple items get selected. I tried using this
because I wanted to put a direct link to the particular radio
station
on my desktop so as to have a shortcut to it I could run rather than
going all the way through iTunes cascading menus. As it is I'll
have
to use safari to get the link off the radio station's website itself
and save it that way. Other than that, iTunes is a good program.
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