Some things broke, some things improved
Some channels don't get displayed in the listings, while others are being listed twice. Well, they're not really being listed twice, for some reason the wrong text and graphics is showing up in the wrong position in that list, so it will seem like some channels are listed twice. As a temporary work-around, you can get to missing channel by clicking on one of the duplicate entries.
We're working on fixing the bug now, but we have to wait for the approval process again, so it will likely be a week or longer before the fix is available in the store. Really sorry about that. You can vent your frustrations in our iPhone support area.
In better news, the iPhone 3.0 software brings better features to our WebApp. If you have the 3.0 software installed on your iPhone, you now have access to our aacPlus streams, which sound great over EDGE networks. We have aacPlus support for Groove Salad, Space Station Soma, Secret Agent, Indie Pop Rocks and Illinois Street Lounge right now, we're planning to get a couple more channels up real soon now (most likely Boot Liquor, Lush and Drone Zone).
We've also rolled out streaming on more Nokia platforms, including the 5800, and the new Palm Pre. I'm excited how the mobile platforms are really taking off finally! It's been a long time, but internet radio in your car and wherever you are is finally starting to become common.
Labels: internet radio, SomaFM, webcasting
posted by Rusty Hodge [SomaFM] at
Thursday, June 18, 2009
2 Comments:
Any reason there aren't aacPlus links on your homepage, for non-mobile listeners? As much as I wish I could listen to aacPlus in iTunes… I'd be happy to listen via VLC if it meant it was cheaper for you guys (and less bandwidth for me).
I've always been impressed with aacPlus, since first hearing it from MinnPR's "The Current"
We didn't show links for aacPlus to Mac Safari users because they'd always end up opening in iTunes, which wouldn't play them but also wouldn't indicate that it didn't play that stream type.
Just last week we found a workaround: VLC on the Mac defaults to handling .ram files, and if no VLC is installed but RealPlayer is, it too will play the aacPlus streams- so I'm going to add .ram files to the links for the Mac Safari users.
It's a shame that iTunes doesn't support aacPlus or else it would be our preferred format.
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