[Rose]

Originally Posted by Redflea

Oops...posted to the wrong thread a second ago...I installed and tried this out. Played video/music fine, but the radio side would freeze every 5 to 10s when playing back either the NPR or $5 music mix channels...the hourglass would appear while playing and then the sound would stop for a couple seconds and then resume.

Did you try setting the buffersize to some large number .. What the bandwidth of the data you are receving..

[donncon]

Same result....no matter what I do, no sound through Bluetooth.
Thanks for the suggestion!

[Ron berry]

How do I turn the volume up for the radio and I tryed my headset and the radio still comes out my phone

[Redflea]

Originally Posted by Rose

Did you try setting the buffersize to some large number .. What the bandwidth of the data you are receving..

NO - I haven't tried that, thanks.

I'm on EVDO (Verizon) and show 3 of 5 bars here at home. $5 player reports from 27 to 65 kbps.

I set the buffer to max (250) and it seems to be working now for the most part...the pauses are much fewer and more like a short hiccup where I'll miss a word or so, rather than a long pause that lasts long enough to miss more content. At 120 it was still halting, very similar to when it was at 60 (default).

Running it in the background is a very nice feature, but the streaming is very processor intensive, so the phone does become much less responsive than normal.

What is really required along w/the background capability is the ability to change volume (or at least mute) the sound.

[Redflea]

Oh...I just tried my Moto BT stereo headset (Moto S705 - Motorola S705 SoundPilot Bluetooth Stereo Headset MOHFPS7051 at TigerDirect.com) and the Radio streams to it perfectly playing radio as far as I can tell. Very nice!

I've gotten a few breaks in the stream, but they are still much shorter than before.

Can't stream the audio from video (as w/the built-in player)... :(

[Rose]

Originally Posted by donncon

Same result....no matter what I do, no sound through Bluetooth.
Thanks for the suggestion!

Is it playing througth the OEM player.. Or can you able to hear or play any other thing through that headset?

[Rose]

Originally Posted by Ron berry

How do I turn the volume up for the radio and I tryed my headset and the radio still comes out my phone

Volume can be turned up and down using the side volume keys, using keys p and q and moving the trackball from left to right.
Did you tried the player instead of radio .. Is the player does play thro headset.

[Rose]

Originally Posted by Redflea

NO - I haven't tried that, thanks.

I'm on EVDO (Verizon) and show 3 of 5 bars here at home. $5 player reports from 27 to 65 kbps.

I set the buffer to max (250) and it seems to be working now for the most part...the pauses are much fewer and more like a short hiccup where I'll miss a word or so, rather than a long pause that lasts long enough to miss more content. At 120 it was still halting, very similar to when it was at 60 (default).

Running it in the background is a very nice feature, but the streaming is very processor intensive, so the phone does become much less responsive than normal.

What is really required along w/the background capability is the ability to change volume (or at least mute) the sound.

On background its not possible to control the application.. Volume keys and mute button everything works with the application that is on foreground.
So for changing the volume or mute it you need to launch the application ...

[Rose]

Originally Posted by Redflea

Oh...I just tried my Moto BT stereo headset (Moto S705 - Motorola S705 SoundPilot Bluetooth Stereo Headset MOHFPS7051 at TigerDirect.com) and the Radio streams to it perfectly playing radio as far as I can tell. Very nice!

I've gotten a few breaks in the stream, but they are still much shorter than before.

Can't stream the audio from video (as w/the built-in player)... :(

Thanks for the words of appreciation.. Till the last version we dont support streaming video contents. We support only streaming of mp3 and aac files.

[Rose]

Any Other New and useful Suggestions..

[Soapm]

How do you find stations for the radio? I'm looking for smooth jazz and gospel.

[Redflea]

Offer the Radio part as a separate program at a reduced cost...I'm not dying for a separate media player, but like the radio function on it's own.

[Soapm]

Originally Posted by Redflea

Offer the Radio part as a separate program at a reduced cost...I'm not dying for a separate media player, but like the radio function on it's own.

I second this...

[Rose]

Originally Posted by Soapm

How do you find stations for the radio? I'm looking for smooth jazz and gospel.

There are lots of stations links available for use in
Dollars 5 Community :: View topic - Internet Radio stations for mediaPlayer/Radio

You can use shoutcast stations (or) di.fm for smooth jazz.

[Rose]

Originally Posted by Soapm

I second this...

I will take this to our team for consideration!

[tong_her]

can i get stations from other countries?

[VRaptor]

I can't get any of the station on your list to work. It does the processing thing then flashes a message too fast for me to read then connection closed. The only thing so far that has worked are the 2 included with the player: NPR and the dollar5 test. any ideas. This is on a blackberry pearl using Att carrier. Thanks

[Rose]

Originally Posted by tong_her

can i get stations from other countries?

Sure you will be able to play stations from any countries.

[Rose]

Originally Posted by VRaptor

I can't get any of the station on your list to work. It does the processing thing then flashes a message too fast for me to read then connection closed. The only thing so far that has worked are the 2 included with the player: NPR and the dollar5 test. any ideas. This is on a blackberry pearl using Att carrier. Thanks

Can you tell me how you are configuring the stations and can you provide me a sample station that doesnt work for you. It seems that something goes wrong in station configuration.

[rocky999]

I feel pretty dumb. Everyone else is having fun with this thing.

My music is on my SD card under Blackberry\music, organized by artist\album\song.

How do I get this media player to load all my songs and shuffle through them?