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When you say dropdown, are you talking about QComboBox ? As that one has known styling issues under PR1.1 that will be corrected with PR1.2

That's the one!

Got the new updates, I don't seem to see any differences. -sry

I did think of some things though.
There is no Quick mix function? or am i missing it?

When on cellular network more times then not it seems the album art donsn't dl.(not a big deal for me)

Also for us 2.5g Att ppl, and I had mentiond this in a previous post, can we look into a longer buffer, or a crappier stream to handle the data rates on the network. While standing still, and no windows open, i still dont get a full song to play with out a buffer pause. On my net work it works great.


Thanks agian!

What updates do you mean? Only thing I've changed recently was the create new station stuff. You shouldn't notice any visual difference.

As far as buffer times and such, that would really all handled in the pianobar source code and I've been attempting to keep from modifying that source code directly so I can keep it as close to upstream as possible. I can take a look and see but C/C++ isn't my strongest language.

As far as audio quality, as I've mentioned, there is 3 available options in ~/.config/pianobar/config for the setting "audio_format". There is supposed to be mp3, aacplus, and mp3-hifi.

Unfortunately, I didn't compile pianobar with the aacplus support so really the only options are mp3 and mp3-hifi, with hifi being the better quality and only available to Pandora One subscribers.

I'll look into getting aacplus compiled in and see if it helps any. I seem to think I was missing a dependency, but they all appear to be in the repo's now so I'll give it a shot.

As for the QuickMix - It should show up as a normal station called like "pandora102395's QuickMix"

I'll work on all this for the next versions, for now - I really need to get some working versions into Extras as the current ones are broken. This getting 10 votes is seriously a PITA.

Yeah, missing dependencies prevents me from enabling the aacplus audio output. It requires libfaad2, which is in devel/testing, but evidently something is missing. Pianobar looks for "neaacdec.h" and it's not in the maemo packages.

Oddly enough though, I compiled/installed the from-source faad2 into my SDK just to try and get it to compile and it still didn't work. It found FAAD that time but when it went to link it, got a bunch of undefined reference errors. Something isn't working right.

So currently the only two audio options are mp3, and mp3-hifi, with the latter being only for pandora one customers.

Pianobar and pyPianobar v2.1 have been uploaded to Extras-Devel.

Nothing major. On the pianobar front just a build of todays snapshot of pianobar.

On pyPianobar I did quite a bit actually:

* Added a "*" to the end of all stations in your quickmix
* Fixed Album art to always be 100% size (no more tiny stupid images.)
* I (may) have fixed the 100% CPU error. I'll describe this below.
* I (hopefully) have fixed the album name from pushing all the buttons over to a corner. It (should) just cut the end of the album name off if it's too long. I haven't gotten scrolling to work. I also can't seem to get pandora to give me a really long album to test it with...
* The QComboBox for station lists work a little better IMHO. It still has the problem of jumping from top to bottom with the slightest flick (this I think is part of what'll be fixed in PR1.2).. BUT the actual scrolling is significantly smoother. Less lag and easier to scroll slowly to the proper station.

Ok so about the 100% CPU. I have had the report of Pianobar eating 100% cpu after X hours of play, and then I've also personally experienced and had a bug told to me on the voting pages of pyPianobar having a communication error and will then spawn a second pianobar confusing things all to hell - get to listen to two songs at once, and closing pyPianobar leaves an orphaned pianobar in the background playing.

Essentially, these errors were already caught (from what I knew?) meaning that pyPianobar told you pianobar had an error.. but my default method of handling this was just to open a new one and keep going.

I've added in there a check now to see if pianobar is still running, and then quit out of it and restart if it is. Hopefully this addresses a few problems.... I've never been able to listen to Pandora long enough to test .

I don't think I'll be pushing these to Testing until I can get the current ones up to Extras.

I'm really put off on the whole voting thing. I can't for the life of me get anything into Extras until it's too late or I've already made a dozen changes. This system is really anti-"Release early, release often".

I can vouch that the qcombobox is MUCH MUCH better than the previous one, not perfect but definitely useable. The album artwork looks more squared up and the interface has remained consisent. The one question I do have is how can you choose which songs are in the starred "*" quickmix? I've never used it, but some how one of my stations is starred. No big deal, just curious.

All and all, all the features youmve added work great and its nice to see the improvements continuing to come. I just wish i could help you with the whole 10 votes thing. I'm surprised there aren't more people following this app honestly(its one of the top apps in the App Store, Android Market, and WebOS store)

I wonder if there's a way you could put a message in the app. Like.. "like this app? Want updates and bug fixes? Willing to test? etc.."

Its probably possible. If anything else to open the browser to the voting page.

Arsonist, Laughing Man - are you guys part of the 5-6 that have voted so far??? You can get more karma if you link your T.M.O account to your M.O. account. Theres a few voters that aren't linked to t.m.o so I don't know who's been over there.

At pandora's website at the bottom of your station list you can switch to "QuickMix" or "QuickMix: Custom". If you do Custom, each of your stations will have a check box by them and you can select which stations you want in your quickmix or not.