Interest in North America XM Radio/Sirius internet plugin?

[Tech Geek]

XM and Sirius are subscription satellite radio services available in the USA.
They also provide their stations to US DBS satellite providers and by internet streaming audio.

[ASiDiE]

Sirius and XM radio are basically radio stations supplied to you by a satellite. They cost you around 10 bucks a month for the service and you must have some sort of receiver. The stations are sorted by types of music or comedy. Because you are paying for the service you have no commercials (or a very small amount). It's basically the music you want 24/7. It’s mostly for North America but you would really need to hit their website to make sure.

Jonathan, I know that Dish network has Sirius and DIRECTV has XM radio. I am wondering if (with the plug-in) with would be possible to set up?

[Tech Geek]

Just some suggestions for this plugin.

I'd like the ability to select the station just by typing in the number.
It would cool to have it search for songs or content by name.

[zswman]

A few feature suggestions:
1. organization selectable by station genre, simple channel number or "favorites"
2. login contained w/in xml configuration file and automatically logged-in (i.e., no prmpt)
3. configurable playlist update interval (again via xml config file)
4. integration with visualizations (like GForce)

Interesting but not essential:
5. "now playing" page that retrieves cover art for current artist/song/album

Thanks again for your work on this!

[bradsjm]

Originally Posted by zswman

A few feature suggestions:
1. organization selectable by station genre, simple channel number or "favorites"
2. login contained w/in xml configuration file and automatically logged-in (i.e., no prmpt)
3. configurable playlist update interval (again via xml config file)
4. integration with visualizations (like GForce)

Interesting but not essential:
5. "now playing" page that retrieves cover art for current artist/song/album

Thanks again for your work on this!

1. XM limits you to 8 "presets", would you want to use the preset list or a local favorite list without a limit?

2. No problem, login info will be part of a one-time configuration

3. The update interval is determined by XM (I read their config data) which is right now every 60 seconds for all channels and every 15 seconds for the active playing channel.

4. Right now I'm using the built in player so if visualization works with it, it should work fine with this too

5. Yep, cover art is retrieved by using the XM integration with Napster (so I can grab the art from Napster.com) although I've not figured out where I able to show it yet.

Other notes, yes, I'll have channel logos too

[Redfuture]

Looks amazing so far, your EPG plugin was fantasticly simple and perfect. Funny how this is at the top of my wish list now and before you mentioned it, it never crossed my mind.

[zswman]

1. XM limits you to 8 "presets", would you want to use the preset list or a local favorite list without a limit?

I guess I'd like to see a local favorites as I would only access from my local installation of MP (besides the dedicated receiver in my car, the only other way I currently acccess XM is through the subset of channels on DirecTV - this is going to change all that!)

[rob3435]

bradsjm

An XM-Radio plugin would be sweet. Currently i'm starting Xamp Desktop http://xampd.imomo.net/home/ in the background with my Streamzap remote. As long as i all i want to do is listen to one station it works perfect.

I'm using this bash script on my linux machine, it might give you some pointers. http://www.xmfan.com/viewtopic.php?t=53237

rob

[bradsjm]

Some progress updates

- Lots of code refactoring work underneath
- Added a configuration dialogue for setting your username password (and other options eventually)
- Added code to allow you to exclude "Explicit Language" channels from listing
- The big news (and most work) is that Now Playing is working (see screen shot) along with album art!



XM Radio have a partnership with Napster so where there is an album that they have linked to Napster I can grab the album art from Napster (no guessing/searching required!). Other mechanisms (e.g. amazon search) can be added in the future since only a percentage of albums seem to have been linked to Napster yet.

Now, what I really could use help with is SKINNING Any volunteers?

[jim tressler]

looks sweet!! need any testers yet ?

jim