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XiiaLive v2.2.3 - release notes

Jona (Lead Developer) 13 year бұрын жаңартылды 13 year бұрын 0

Release date: 08/22/11

Version: v2.2.3


Update v2.2.3 brings in a lot of performance updates along with some minor bug fixes and a couple new features.  The performance updates are most noticeably found when using the "Internal stream engine" and the "Android stream engine".


The internal stream engine has been optimized to start AAC/AAC+ streaming incredibly much faster. Metadata support and percent loaded has been added along with a bug fix for streaming OGG stations where after the song was over it would stop streaming.  The engine should also be a lot more stable and should recover a stream a little more gracefully.  The internal stream engine is still a work on progress and might work perfectly on some phones while on others it stutters and is unreliable or unusable.


The android stream engine is our default stream engine which uses the Android media framework.  This is still our preferred choice since its performance plays nice with battery life but it doesn’t work equally on all phones as we would like it to.  On some phones streaming just doesn't work or a proxy patch is required.  Also, some phones might play a little of the stream and than just stop playback unpredictably. Going back to the actual update the AAC streaming has been improved a lot.  On slower phones this should be more noticeable.  Also, for streaming MPEG stations we have improved this and hopefully it works great on all phones! We hate to make changes on our stream engines to avoid breaking it but we need to in order to support all phones and increase the stability and performance.


Another great improvement has been applied to the stations lists.  The downloading on the background is now very efficient and much faster.  Be believe it’s a lot smoother specially on devices running Android 3.0 or greater.  We created a better download updating mechanism that makes you find and play a station a lot faster!  A few key features I want to let you know about if you didn’t know. 

  1. 1.Press the selected menu button again to go back out of a sub list or press the back key to get out of a sub list.
  2. 2.If the list is currently not at the top pressing the selected menu button will take you to the top of the list.
  3. 3.Press the selected menu button when the list is scrolled all the way to the top and you will refresh the content of the list.


The new features are just a few.  Character encoding selection is a new feature that allows the user to specify what character encoding to use when decoding the incoming metadata.  This helps avoid displaying bad characters for some languages.  This is mostly useful for South American and European stations.  You can access this option by long pressing one of your favorite stations and selecting edit.  A minor change was the sleep timer.  The max time has been increased from 60 min to 120.


The following is the list of the changes gone into this version.

Answer
Jona (Lead Developer) 13 year бұрын
New features:
-Edit favorite: new option to allow selecting the character encoding.
-Search history saved and shown as auto complete.

Changes and improvements:
-Internal stream engine now supports icy metadata.
-Internal stream engine now starts up AAC/AAC+ and MPEG streams incredibly much faster!
-Highly optimized android stream engine for AAC/AAC+ streams.
-Sleep timer increased time from 60min to 120min.
-New station loading message.
-Improved support for different screen sizes. Still work on progress.
-Improved stations download and loading. This resolved hang-ups on devices running Android 3.0 and greater.
-Active search now locked until finished to avoid overloading CPU.
-Back key press now supported while inside a sub list. i.e. inside genre search.
-Media control now set to OFF as default. This is only effective for new installers and can be easily enabled by going to Settings->User experience.
-Improved purchase verifier. Should help stop showing “Oops unable to verify purchase” bug.
-Changed Tagged text to Tags.-Cleaned up all database access to improve stability and performance.
-Graphics clean up to include more high res images. 

Fixes:
-Ogg streaming next metadata caused stream to go into buffering and then stop.
-Internal stream engine buffering percent not shown.
-After doing a search virtual keyboard was impossible to get it to popup again.
-Many random crashes caused by the internal stream engine.
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I can't find any stations?

Vivian Musil 13 year бұрын updated by Jona (Lead Developer) 12 year бұрын 3 5 duplicates

Can't find any stations!

There seems to be no stations at all?

Where are all the popular stations?

The radio listing currently suck!?

Genre search returns nothing or 1-2 stations, why?

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Jona (Lead Developer) 12 year бұрын

The SHOUTcast radio directory service is currently experiencing server side issues.  This is the reason why there aren't that many stations now and why you can't find your favorite stations.


We hope SHOUTcast can resolve this issue ASAP!  Here is a link related to SHOUTcast developers in charge of this service:

http://forums.winamp.com/announcement.php?f=86


Sorry for the inconvenience. 

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bug or not?

Basti 12 year бұрын updated by Jona (Lead Developer) 12 year бұрын 0

I hear Nebelwelten-Radio with 48kbps and mostly with 128kbps, now when I transmitter with 48kbps to My favorites, I can not add more to 128kbps must seek the channels manual or click on the extending, I also can not the stream select the higher bit rate because I already hear the Station.

 

favourites: 48 kbps=Manual search 128 kbps

                 128kbps=Manual search the Station with 48kbps

 

i cant add 2 Station, one with 48 kbps and one with 128kbps, i can only add one Station

 

sorry for this english ;)


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Jona (Lead Developer) 12 year бұрын

So just to see if I understand you. You are trying to add the two stations, 48kbps and 128kbps, to your favorites and only one you are allowed to add?


When you try to add the other station do you see the add favorite icon showing that it is already a favorite station?

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no conecta la radio que quiero escuchar

rockmania 11 year бұрын updated by Jona (Lead Developer) 11 year бұрын 0

la url es http:rockmaniatv.listen2myradio.com cuando completo el registro en favoritos y quiero escuchar no conecta, si existe un tutorial porfavor haganme llegar, para compartirlo con los que escuchan la radio, gracias

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Jona (Lead Developer) 11 year бұрын

The provided URL is only to a website and not an actual radio station. Try asking the radio station for a direct link to their station.

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unsupported media

mite 10 year бұрын updated by Jona (Lead Developer) 10 year бұрын 1
Hi,

I'm getting an unsupported media e:-31 error when try to open http://www.slamfm.nl/slamplayer/SLAMFM_ITUNES.m3u
(got link from http://www.slamfm.nl/slamplayer/radio.php).

Can you please advise?

Thanks, M
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Jona (Lead Developer) 10 year бұрын
Hey, I clicked on the URL "http://www.slamfm.nl/slamplayer/radio.php" from my phone and it directed me to the browser and then provided the option to open the stream with XiiaLive. After I openned it it worked fine. The other link might be wrong. Please let me know if you are still having issues. We have done various updates to our stream engine since your post.
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fontsize too small

Michael 9 year бұрын updated by Ralph 9 year бұрын 1
I'm running Xiialive an an older 7" tablet (Android honeycomb, Archos 7it) with the tablet connected by hdmi to a bigger control monitor. Everything is fine. But the fontsize used is too small to be readable in my favoured viewing distance (2m). I'd like the font to be enlarged by a factor of 3..5 (yes indeed:-)

Additionally I'd like if the text will be wrapped if it doesn't fit the available horizontal space.

Of course other people might have different preferences, thus my proposal is to allow selection of "basic" fontsize.


Thanks, Michael
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Does it play videos?

Kimberly D Taylor 9 year бұрын updated by Rodrigo (Developer) 9 year бұрын 2

I have training videos to watch for work and it wants me to download this app

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Rodrigo (Developer) 9 year бұрын

Hi Kimberly,

unfortunately XiiaLive doesn't support videos.


Best,

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New backup not working (Can't open file)

Isaac Dahaki 9 year бұрын updated by Rodrigo (Developer) 9 year бұрын 3

I broke the screen on my Nexus 6 phone. I bought a new Nexus 6p and downloaded the backup file from Google drive. When I try to open the file by clicking on it from the download folder it say "can't open file"


So right now I don't have any of my favorite stations even though I have a backup file. Any help would be appreciated


Isaac

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Rodrigo (Developer) 9 year бұрын

Hi Isaac,

unfortunately, using gdrive, the backup file doesn't work.

As Evildog said, you can use a file explorer app, dropbox or via email (XiiaLive can open it).


Best,

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Adding a graphic equalizer would be a nice improvment

Antonio Mayes 13 year бұрын updated by Jona (Lead Developer) 11 year бұрын 0
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Jona (Lead Developer) 11 year бұрын

XiiaLive v3 now has a basic EQ. In the future we will add a more advanced set of features for the EQ.

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Data streaming continues when i'm calling

Marco Santambrogio 13 year бұрын updated by Jona (Lead Developer) 13 year бұрын 2
Now the music stops when I answer a call and resumes at the end, but i think the data transfer continues in the background even when I'm talking on the phone.
Is it possible to stop the streaming data and automatically restart it at the end of the call to reduce data consuption?

Thanks
Answer
Jona (Lead Developer) 13 year бұрын
Thanks for your request. Here is what we are currently doing. 

When streaming on CDMA networks such as Verizon or Sprint, the data connection is stopped immediately. On GSM networks the data connectivity still continues during a phone call.  Our current logic is continue streaming if connection dropped reconnect and if during a phone call it waits until phone call is over.  

We don't stop the stream cause some phone calls are short and we allow the stream to return without interruption.

What you think if we add a 15 or 30 sec timer to stop the stream?  That means if you are on the phone call longer than this time we stop the stream and resume upon ending the phone call....