Comments on: XM Online Radio For Google Sidebar / Windows XP

By: Frank White

Frank White — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:06:58 +0000

This gadget doesn’t work very well at all. I can finally get the thing to play but I have to log-in every time after I’ve rebooted. There should be a feature to cache the credentials like in a browser. Then the gadget itself doesn’t re-size correctly. If I try to drag to increase window size it starts dragging my calendar down. I can see what’s playing but I can’t see any of the controls like volume or play. (I know I can expand the gadget to access these controls.) Again, it should be able to do this within the window.

By: Faye

Faye — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:09:58 +0000

OK, have had the XM acct, but log on doesn’t seem to work. WHAT NEXT???????

By: The Staff

The Staff — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:47:50 +0000

ClanDaith, already done, just re-add the gadget to the sidebar or rebuild the channel list from the XM logo menu.

By: ClanDaith

ClanDaith — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:36:15 +0000

Seems that XM Radio changed the station listing today. For example, Ngoma used to be on channel 104, but is now on 98 according to the online player on their site.

When will the channel listed in the plug in get updated?

Thanks.

By: The Staff

The Staff — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:12:53 +0000

Jim, try deleting the file in the My Documents -> My Google Gadgets folder. Should allow for reinstallation.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:58:57 +0000

I am having the same update issue about “gadget is already isntalled….” on all 3 of my windows XP machines…. i have tried everything how do i get the XM gadget back?

By: ClanDaith

ClanDaith — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:25:30 +0000

I’m using the Google Gadgets. Also, I found the file to delete under ../My Documents/My Google Gadgets.

Once I deleted the XM radio file there, I was able to reinstall the XM Radio gadget.

By: The Staff

The Staff — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:54:31 +0000

You guys don’t happen to be using Vista Sidebar are you? We’ve seen this problem happen under Vista sidebar when gadgets are updated without closing them first. Google Sidebar will close the gadget before replacing it.

If you happen to have vista, don’t worry about the Google Gadgets update.

By: ClanDaith

ClanDaith — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:48:14 +0000

Craig,

I’m having the same problem. I can’t update the gadget.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:58:03 +0000

I had the old XM (v1.0) and when I tried to upgrade to 1.3, it didn’t work. Even worse, there is no xm gadget in my sidebar, but when I try to reinstall it, it gives me an error message “Failed to copy gadget - ((XM Online Radio)) - Please check a gadget with a same name is already installed and remove the old gadget before proceeding.” Is XM still installed somewhere that I can’t get to? Has anyone else had this happen to them?