Hi

I love this app and use it to listen to a couple of radio stations, but it’s losing the streams several times most days - it seems to stop streaming almost when the wind changes direction, which is incredibly annoying and inconvenient. I use it in a mostly very strong signal area.

If I listen to the stations using the station’s own apps it’s fine – no dropouts, no stutters, no hiccups or skips. However, if I listen to the same stations using Xiia Pro it results in ALL of the above problems, i.e. dropouts, stutters, hiccups and skips.  It even happens with Xiia when using WiFi, only 9m - 10m from the router and the tablet/phone sitting on a table, not moving!

What is going on?  Why can the radio station apps keep the stream and Xiia can’t?

I’ve tried using it on a 3G Nexus 7 tablet (Android 4.3) and two different phones – HTC Desire C (Android 4.0.3) and Huawei Ascend Y300 (Android 4.1.1) on T-Mobile, 3, Vodafone and Virgin mobile networks, and the results are the same on them all.

It’s Xiia Pro 3.0.2.5.

Thanks

Hello,

I have a samsung vibrant running 2.2 but my problem is with 2.3.  
I have a police scanner that I broadcast using icecast.  I also broadcast via radioreference.com (I'm not sure exactly how they serve audio).  I listen to my icecast stream in my car.
When I upgrade my rom to a 2.3 based rom (say, cyanogen), xiialive (2.2.4 free) always buffers for 15 seconds of time.  I have tried in my icecast settings disabling burst on connect and setting the burst-size to one.  Same problem.  I broke down and tried a pirated pro version of xiialive (2.1.6) and manually set both buffers to 1000ms and it still buffers for 15 seconds. 

What's weird is, when I listen via radioreference (the m3u on this page):http://m.radioreference.com/?feedId=7059  it buffers for about 3 seconds.  It's only on my icecast feed http://184.91.43.57:8001/listen.m3u that it has the delay problem.  Unfortunately their feed is 16k and mine is 48k.

I will absolutely purchase your app if you can tell me how to fix this (perhaps a config problem on my end?) or that it will be addressed in a future release.  I am at my wit's end and have googled the shit out of this problem.  I used to use streamfurious but the developer has basically abandoned it, leaving you guys as the last ones standing.

I'm going to include a link to my stream.

I'm begging you, please help me.  Tell me something anything that might help.

Thanks so much,

Calvin

Hi Jona, I'm running Android 4.2.2 on Verizon (grrr) Galaxy Nexus with XiiaLive Pro. I just noticed that I can play music on several music apps in succession but XiiaLive doesn't seem to re-establish the audio driver after other apps have been used. 

Here are my steps to reproduce (I have widgets set up for all 3 apps):

1) Stream music via XiiaLive. Works like a champ.

2) Press Stop on Xiia

3) Stream from Grooveshark app. Works like a champ.

4) Stop GS playback.

5) Try to stream from Xiia again. It looks like it's playing but no audio can be heard.

6) Stop Xiia.

7) Play music from Play Music app. Works like a champ

8) Stop PM

9) Attempt to stream from Xiia. No audio.

10) Stream from Grooveshark app. Works like a champ

11) Play music via Play Music app. Works like a champ

12) Stream from Grooveshark app. Works like a champ

If I Force Stop Xiia, it will work again but obviously not a reasonable solution. Let me know if you need logs or anything.

I really like the pact that ffmpeg was added as it starts to stream almost immediately  but I have some issues.  I usually stream 128k AAC+ stations, and it works well for sites like Radio Partadise But dit crashes for sites like SomaFM Secrete Agent , or any other SOMAFM station.  Not sure why.  I also experience jumpy skippyness after a while with FFMpeg.  Are you planning on updating FFMpeg?  BTW, I have used XIIA in Pro for a while and find it to be the best out there for those that want good quality streaming, especially with a solid buffer for driving.

The song title no longer appears in the device notification area. The app icon shows but there is no song title. Asus transformer infinity, android version 4.1.1

 I'm taking a few minutes to offer some feedback about the updated version of XiiaLive because it's the single most used app on my Android device. It's really important to me.

First I want to say that I think the new feature set is great. I want to make that clear so that you don't think I'm just here to criticize.The new features are great

However, the user interface took a serious step backwards. Navigation through the features, menus, etc. is much less intuitive.While the recording buffer is a terrific feature, it's taking up a ton of real-estate when it is being used and appears to be impossible to hide when its use isn't needed.

Lots of controls for navigating, adding favorites or tagging have gone from big and easy to small and fussy. I use XiiaLive almost every minute that I'm in my car and it's become significantly harder to operate. Some things, like connection status have become so small that they're now virtually useless to me in that environment.

This all brings me to my last and main complaint...the new skins. They're dreadful First, the "original" skin *isn't*...and it doesn't even function in landscape mode...the mode I use. Second, the use of fine-lined fonts and extremely low contrast themes is a big problem. Take Favorites on Classic Dark. A dark gray background  with secondary information in increasingly tinier fonts in various shades of gray? 

You need to put some thought into themes that are truly usable in the environments your customers use your product.

I doubt that I can find a better product. I don't want to even go looking. If these issues aren't addressed, I will have to. As good as the new features are, the interface went from invisible to frustrating.

Oh, also, possibly connected to the new playback buffer...I'm getting intermittent blasts of garbled audio. That's new,

Thanks for your attention.

-Michael