RE: NEW arf file was xPL Rioplay now available

[UKHA]

Sorted the artist swapping by doing

sel stop
sel clear
sel artist <artist>
sel play

Andy


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On 04/02/2003 at 14:13 UKHA wrote:

>Hi Tony,
>
>A few inital problems after getting the .arf installed and a few
>'additional features' have appeared :D :
>
>
>Added features:
>
>I selected an artist, then selected a different one (in my case
Icehouse
>for which I only have one track "hey little girl") the rio
played the
>Icehouse track and then went back to playing the previous artist. Sadly
it
>stopped there just repeating the tracks from that artist, but it
>was still quite a cool feature. It could make inserting announcements
>quite easy.
>
>Problems:
>
>My Rio refuses to play Hootie &amp; the Blowfish, it just ignores
it (perhaps
>it's a taste thing.. :P )
>
>I just can't get shoutcast streams to do anything (other thn play the
>previos artist)
>
>Switching between artists doesn't always work, do I need to issue a
stop
>command, pause then issue the new artist play commands?
>
>HTH
>
>Andy
>
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>On 04/02/2003 at 11:52 Tony T wrote:
>
>>> Downloaded it now installed, working fine
>>>
>>> What was the problem?
>>
>>To save code/space I decided to assume that gethostname() would
always
>>return the local ip address of the Rio.
>>
>>But when using the supplied server software, with autoconfiguration
>option,
>>this is always set to 'mercury'.
>>
>>So my simple little loop that extracted the last 3 digits of the ip
>address
>>shot off into oblivion...
>>
>>Replaced it with some code that gets the ip address of 'eth0'
interface
>>
>>I've still got a bit of tidying to do on the code, such as
enforcing the
>>128
>>byte limit on the length of the value in a name/value pair. Watch
out for
>>very long track names (>128 characters), as this could crash the
rio.
>>Also need to tighten the code a bit.
>>
>>Regards
>>Tony
>>
>>
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