C-ApiSRO - Sirius/XM Satellite Radio for PocketPC (PPC)

[otzdog]

Originally Posted by R-Capi

Drinking beer is probably the reason why channel 107 isn't there.
Seriously, I appreciate the offer, but it's not necessary. Keep your money and just enjoy the app. I enjoyed building it and I learned something from it.

I don't believe Sirius offers a channel 107, however, there is a "Blue Collar Radio" on channel 103 that may be what you're looking for.

Thanks for the ideas. I will keep them in mind. The proxy is an interesting idea. I'd have to look deeper into that.

Found this thread again after a few months. I'd been using this program to stream Sirius with excellent results for the past few months.

I'm using a Touch Pro on the Sprint Network.

After "upgrading" to the couple of new roms that have come out recently, I'm unable to log in. I can (about half the time) see the security letters (is that what you mean by captcha?), but can't get past them. I'm getting the error message "Unable to connect. Please make sure your user information is correct, and you have a valid network connection"

Now, I know that there've been some changes with Sirius in past few weeks.

So I have quite the pickle; is it Sprint, the new roms, or Sirius that's causing the problem? Is it some combo?

When I re-flash or hard reset the phone, I'm able to log in the first few times, making me thing that it's Sprint's network that's "remembering" me (I'm a total noob, so please forgive my lack of understanding of the issue).

I tried using the exe from post #319, but I get the same result.

Just letting everyone know that this exists with a Sprint user. When I get home I'll try logging in through wi-fi, which may help in determining if it's actually Sprint causing it, or the Rom, or Sirius...

[otzdog]

Update: A few hours later and it works fine. I've done nothing. Huh?

I ain't complaining, it works.

[djqwikcut]

Any chance of getting the missing channels and the ones that dont work for XM fixed?? for instance.. BLUE COLOR radio is there but doesnt3 play.... and XM channel 65 is missing.

[R-Capi]

Originally Posted by djqwikcut

Any chance of getting the missing channels and the ones that dont work for XM fixed?? for instance.. BLUE COLOR radio is there but doesnt3 play.... and XM channel 65 is missing.

Which channels are you referring to? Sirius doesn't offer all of it's channels online, so I'll need you to be a little more specific. C-ApiSRO can only play the channels that Sirius and XM offer through their online streams.

As far as Blue Collar goes, if you are talking about channel 103 not playing then I'm not really sure what your issue is. I'm streaming that channel as I type this message. The best thing to do is capture the log files and mail them to me.

[R-Capi]

Originally Posted by 640k

out of all of the features and enhancements I could possibly ask for, my biggest gripe still is the fact that the app still seems to freeze. with starplayr, i never had any issue leaving the app while it was running in the background and coming back to it, or even just stopping the stream.

with your app, if i go to the today screen, the only way to get back to the app is through a task manager and 9 out of 10 times, it will take 30+ seconds to stop a stream. man times the app becomes unresponsive too. sometimes you can't even stop the stream.

also, when the app is unresponsive, but the stream active, sometimes it doesn't even show up in the task manager.

i've tried stopping a stream by killing the app and what will happen is the app will disappear from the task list and then the stream will eventually die, but as soon as it does, the app reappears in the task list!

I will do my best to fix this, but I don't seem to have these problems. Sure, once in a great while my player will pause, but it always comes back, and never to the point of having to reboot or kill the program. Not being able to reproduce the problem will make it harder for me to fix. I may have to do a special build for you if I can't figure this out.

[R-Capi]

A new build (v2.0.5) has been published in the original post. There is nothing new in this build except one fix for Alltel customers when they experience captcha problems.

[Ed Zachary]

Thanks, R-Capi!

Still so glad I spotted this app a few months ago. If you need me to capture any logs or bounce development ideas off my cranium, feel free to ping me.

[R-Capi]

Originally Posted by Ed Zachary

Thanks, R-Capi!

Still so glad I spotted this app a few months ago. If you need me to capture any logs or bounce development ideas off my cranium, feel free to ping me.

Thanks for the offer. I'll keep you in mind.

[2ksilverbullet]

Was hoping this fix would maybe take care of the issue I'm having but it didn't. It worked for a couple days, then quit. I get stuck at the captcha screen as well. I'm running a Samsung i760 on Verizon. Luckily the Sirius WM5 program still works but am anxious to use C-ApiSRO, the interface is 100x better.

[640k]

Originally Posted by R-Capi

I will do my best to fix this, but I don't seem to have these problems. Sure, once in a great while my player will pause, but it always comes back, and never to the point of having to reboot or kill the program. Not being able to reproduce the problem will make it harder for me to fix. I may have to do a special build for you if I can't figure this out.

i haven't written any code for WinMo but several things come to mind as to why i have these problems. first and foremost seems to be the way that the app authenticates with the service. once it has authenticated, it never tries again. there's obviously some timeout on their end to keep from streams eating up their bandwidth 24x7. i don't think the app does enough to deal with this.

second, there may be too much dependency on win media player to reliably play the stream and not enough communication back to the app as to the state of the stream. i know in vb you can access calls to imbedded windows functions like playing windows media content. is this similar to what you are doing?

lastly, i think the application should do a little more to check it's own state by making sure it's healthy, the stream is healthy and when things interrupt it like a phone call, to not freak out and crash. 9 times out of 10, if i change a channel after several hours of listening, the app will crash.

it's possible that all of my problems are because i run the application 9 hours a day. and if it crashes within those 9 hours, some memory leak somewhere is causing extra problems that other people aren't seeing.