New Y-Radio release, version 1.0.7

A quick look at what's new in Y-Radio 1.0.7, the Ylesradio radio application for Jolla devices.

Minor Y-Radio update, version 1.0.5

Related to the previous post about the DockedPanel, I made some small UI adjustments to Y-Radio (and it is already trough Jolla QA, in only 2 hours, that was fast!)

Made the main view a bit more compact and made the play/pause control look more nice.
The connecting and buffering progress bar is now above the control (but for some reason the Audio element won't give proper buffering information for rtsp streams, sigh). Also the main page title is now used for the radio channel name (and will only display Y-Radio when no channel has been selected)

Y-Radio main view changes

Also I made the program view a bit more compact by showing the program details in the list instead of in a dialog, makes it much easier to browse.

Program view

There are some other small thing in there, a bit nicer cover and some text size and color adjustments. Enjoy!

Y-Radio works again!

Finally got some spare time to look into it again. The thing is, YLE decided to stop offering icecast streams that worked perfectly and instead offers only RTSP and HLS streams now. At the time, the multimedia stack on Jolla had problems playing back RTSP streams (choppy sound) and HLS support didn't exist at all. So nothing I could do about it at that time.

I had already started to look into how on earth you could use my own private copy of gstreamer to overcome these issues (as direct usage of gstreamer is a no-no for harbour apps at this time), but luckily the summer update fixed RTSP playback (and almost the HLS support, but not quite, probably this bug) and Y-Radio is now fixed as much as I can fix it.

At this time only low quality RTSP streams are supported as the HLS support is buggy, it won't reload the m3u playlist. But if I can figure out how to use gstreamer without using the system gstreamer, then we can do proper shit! (and add such nice things as an Equalizer for example)

Available now in Openrepos and hopefully soon in the official Jolla store (waiting for QA right now)

Y-Radio problems

Well, YLE did the stupidest thing ever around 1 of May. They removed their shoutcast streams and now offer only RTSP and HLS streams. Using AAC. And guess what Y-Radio uses? That is right, the shoutcast streams.

And the RTSP streams, that work perfectly fine on desktop, fail on Jolla as various gstreamer modules are missing won't play the streams properly.

And you are not allowed to add gstreamer modules for harbour releases.

Sigh...

I'm trying to figure out something, but for now Y-Radio is broken. Sorry about that.

Y-Radio updated, new icon and Facebook page!

I finally got Y-Radio update in harbour, already a couple of weeks ago (QA approved April 8th). New features include:

• All available YLE Radio channels now available and nicely grouped
• For channels that offer it, program information (Note: this uses the undocumented API still, so it might have issues from time to time)
•  Channel information with quick links to various on-line service the radio channel offer (Twitter, YouTube, etc)
• Preliminary translations to Finnish and Swedish
• Major internal changes
• And Y-Radio is now on Facebook

Channel list

Program details

Program information

Also a very helpfull Jolla community member offered to create a much nicer icon for the application. This version does not use it yet, but the next update will have it. But take a look at this, awesome isn't it ?!

New Y-Radio icon

Y-Radio development update, undocumented APIs and stuff

I started to add support for showing program information in Y-Radio and I would have wanted to get that ready before a new release. Of course, the information on how to get to that data had to be sniffed from the official-only-on-major-OSs YLE applications.

That was easy, but as the API is not an open one and undocumented... guess what, the data is not available in the old format anymore! Fun ain't it. Sigh...

Luckily #opendata is all the rage these days, YLE is opening up their data into a public and open API and there is already a beta available, unfortunately licenses and public usage is still work in progress.

Y-Radio update coming soon

Yes, I know, Y-Radio is missing some of the more obscure YLE channels. Development version (and version on openrepos) includes all channels.

Ski vacation and work before and after that (plus being sick) has take most my time, but an update will be pushed to the Harbour soonish. I'd like to get a couple of feature done first.