Radio widget

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Radio widget

Anyone had trouble getting the various radio widgets to work?

I've tried RadioTuner1.0 and the BBC radio. Neither appears to actually produce audio.

BBC one appears with the 'play' icon greyed out. I can select any channel but all have the icon greyed, so I can't select it.

Initially radio tuner had 'error occurred'. eventually convinced it to get radio6 up, but no audio coming out.

Any thoughts?

Paul

PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 13, 2006 9:07 AM

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Answer 1

Maxis

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Mar 13, 2006 4:18 PM in response to Paul McGowan

You won't.

BBC uses it's own radio player, or Real player. you can get either awindows media player or Real Player plug in for the mac, which will enable you to listen to all bbc radio, but only through there website, not itunes, or radio widget, or anything else probably.

There are links on the bbc website, go to help with listen, from virtually any page.

it's well worth it §: )

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Answer 2

Paul McGowan Author

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Mar 22, 2006 1:30 PM in response to Maxis

Thanks for your response, but you can definitely listen to BBC radio via these widgets. In fact that's why there is a specific BBC radio widget. Think about it ;o)

I've seen it work on other machines. And I'm not only talking about BBC, I can't get audio from any of the channels.

I've already got RealPlayer and MSmediaplayer, so again that's not the issue.

Anyone out there got any experience with this?

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Answer 3

Paul McGowan Author

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Mar 23, 2006 1:00 AM in response to Paul McGowan

I figured it out.

The Radiotuner widget was grabbing the audio out token and stopping the BBC Radio widget getting in.

As soon as I uninstalled RadioTuner, the BBC Radio widget was able to get inn and play audio.

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Answer 4

Mar 28, 2006 11:34 AM in response to Paul McGowan

It looks like you sorted it.
For anyone else searching for an answer to this problem, as I did, it took me a while to realise that I had to install real player, even though it tells you on the download page! duh at me!

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