Comments on: New XM Landing Pages

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:57:55 +0000

Matt, your solution worked perfectly, thank you.

By: The Staff

The Staff — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:23:40 +0000

All fixed up.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:34:16 +0000

Can we get the channel list fixed on the gadget? It still has holiday channels and some channels don’t work.

Thanks,
JB

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:31:07 +0000

Hey, just a minor update, but I commented out the setTimout lines from flyoutchannels/links/login.html and it works fine now. So it looks like that focus thing was the culprit.
Happy new year, btw!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:34:09 +0000

Hey, great gadget! Been using it for well over a year now. I also had problems with it on Windows 7. I was able to get past the login flyout issue by replacing my XMRadioData file with a working one from Vista, and so now it starts logged in. Now when I try to select a channel to listen to, that flyout also dissapears quickly. I went in and changed line 800 of flyoutchannels.html and changed the timeoutfocus time from 300 to 500. This allowed the flyout pane to stay open a little longer, and after numerous tries I was able to click on a channel and get it playing. The channel up/down buttons kind of work, sometimes they change the channel more than once. One more thing, when a song is playing, and I click on the artist/title, the search flyout comes out no problem. I dunno how that’s different than the other flyouts, but it stays up just fine. So, in the future if you make a Win7 fix, hope that helps.
If not, feel good that I can still get my XM fix in Win7 for now.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:53:47 +0000

I have a good suggestion for a feature. My car radio notifies me when Bands I like are playing on any channel, is this a possible addition to the player? If you can read the now playing list it seems doable. I think this would be an awesome addition to an already fantastic gadget.

By: The Staff

The Staff — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:07:49 +0000

BDW, thanks for the report. It’s possible that Windows 7 is correcting some of the errors the sidebar in Vista had, so a flyout focus might now have the opposite effect. Either way, should push come to shove and the gadget doesn’t work when Windows 7 launches, we’ll be sure to release a modified version of the gadget. Thanks again.

By: BDW

BDW — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:47:37 +0000

Hi folks, love the gadget. Just wanted to let you know that it’s not working on Windows 7 currently. Gadget installs, and launches. But when you click on Login, the gadget flies out to the left temporarily, before collapsing once again on the gadget. The temporary window that pops-n-hides is white (meaning it didn’t display any controls or layout – just white). Obviously, I don’t ‘expect’ it to work on a Win7 build at this early stage – I’m just posting in-case others have the same experience, and to give you a heads up.

By: RedJ

RedJ — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:55:23 +0000

I spoke too soon… The “Server Lost” error is back

By: RedJ

RedJ — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:50:10 +0000

FYI to everyone who might be suddenly experiencing problems with the XM sidebar gadget…
XM announced a ton of channel changes today due to merging a bunch of content with Sirius’ offerings.

Maybe others have been luckier, but for me after the changes, a lot of the channels were incorrect or missing and I was receiving a “server lost error.” To fix this, I had to close the gadget from the sidebar and re-add it. After that, all the channel changes were correctly accounted for and the error message is gone.