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Ionshard / pyxis

A Command Line Player for SIRIUS and XM Sattelite Radio
http://www.ionshard.com/pyxis
GNU General Public License v2.0
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dogstar source not reliable #8

Closed jvc closed 14 years ago

jvc commented 14 years ago

dogstar has not been keeping the now playing stuff updated - have you guys noticed this?

johnrabotnik commented 14 years ago

Sometimes happens, usually fixed, updates here: http://twitter.com/DogstarRadio

jvc commented 14 years ago

hmm... http://www.DogstarRadio.com/tracker.txt is still not up to date.

johnrabotnik commented 14 years ago

Dogstar have posted an update here: http://twitter.com/DogstarRadio/status/17764773279

johnrabotnik commented 14 years ago

On a hunch I tested the Sirius website on a Windows machine, and the player showed the currently playing song and artist! I'm not sure why this info doesn't show on my Linux based machines. I only tested it in Internet Explorer, perhaps their site doesn't show this info in Firefox or something.

I did some digging around and found an xml file on the Sirius website that contains up to date now playing information.

I've patched Sirius.py to use the Sirius website directly for now playing information, so there's no need for third party websites anymore.

kasuko/pyxis@feefb5aa29059c71154a

Ionshard commented 14 years ago

Great Job, this is perfect. The reason the now playing doesn't show up on your Linux box is because it uses ActiveX or whatever that is called (The Microsoft only one). Closing this, as you can't get much better than SIRIUS it self.