Triode wrote: > Try playing an internet radio station from somewhere else while the > computer is switched off - this should force the radio to switch to > "MySqueezebox.com" then the BBCRadio menu probably works.
That does work but will be terribly clunky for my 80-year old mother to get her head around, as you have to do this every single time you want to use the applet, if you had previously used the plugin and subsequently switched off your PC. Although she has used the internet for years, she has trouble with anything that isn't completely obvious and often rings me in a panic, for instance, just because a software application has asked her if she wants to upgrade to the latest version. I imagine she'll be ringing me regularly to say that her radio has stopped working. :( Another thing that works, by the way, is to go to "My Apps" and select any app, which also forces the radio to switch to "MySqueezebox.com", at which point the BBCRadio app suddenly reappears in the list of apps, and then it works for the rest of that session. I think that's a slightly better workaround than the other one, but she'll struggle with either of them. Triode wrote: > The intention is that you have either BBCiPlayer and a server or BBC > Radio and no server. The scenario you are using is not as well tested. Well she won't want the PC to be have to be switched on every time she wants to listen to her radio (and nor would I if it were my radio); but as the "Extras" plugin isn't available as an applet, she'll often have to switch the PC on in order to listen to programmes that can only be played that way. I doubt she and I are the only people who don't want to have to have our PCs switched on all the time (terrible waste of electricity), but who do want to be able listen to the much wider choice of programmes offered by the "Extras" plugin, which means having to switch between using the applet and the plugin; so even if I'm the first to highlight this problem, I'm sure many others would very much appreciate it if it could be fixed. Given that all one's other applets appear in the list of "My Apps" except for the "BBCRadio" one, after using the plugin and then switching the PC off, then presumably it should be technically possible to find a way to fix this problem in the next release of your software? Triode wrote: > [alternatively reboot the radio by pressing and holding the power button > for a long time until it turns off and then turn it on again] No that makes no difference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DaveRado's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56933 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
