RR 11/01/2009 Release

**guino** · 11-09-2009, 08:48 AM

Originally Posted by ThunderStick

Just two questions here,
WHy is RR trying to support so many different audio players?
What is wrong with sticking with winamp?

It's not like WE are trying to support so many players. I personally like winamp best and never had any issues with it. However, along the years, A LOT of people have bashed on RR for using winamp saying things like WMP is better, foobar has better audio quality and so on.. so we figured that instead of having people bashing on RR just because of winamp, we can make options so that nobody would be forced to use winamp.

Anybody using winamp doesn't have to worry about anything related to any other player, and similarly, anyone using WMP or Foobar doesn't have to worry about winamp version/bugs etc. We're not in any way trying to focus development towards any specific player, but if we did something like that, I think winamp would still be my personal choice.

**Blue ZX3** · 11-09-2009, 12:37 PM

I'll second that WA as a personal choice.

**MGD** · 11-09-2009, 12:38 PM

I think the weather plugin is broken again. It used to show all the weather icons and labels without internet connection. Today I tryed this, disconnected from the network (no Internet) and started RR > Weather and no info shows up. Reconnected to the network, started RR > Weather and all the info shows up. Can we get that fixed again so we use the weather screens without internet?

**vinchan** · 11-10-2009, 06:37 AM

Originally Posted by mitchjs

looks fine here too...
i got control panel settings for non unicode programs on ENGLISH of course
using WMP. so that winamp's tags are not involved
set RR to perfer ID2 tags

Hi Mitchjs

After setting the non unicode programs on Egnlish, everything works fine now.
Thanks a lot!

/Vinchan

**guino** · 11-10-2009, 07:06 AM

Originally Posted by vinchan

Hi Mitchjs

After setting the non unicode programs on Egnlish, everything works fine now.
Thanks a lot!

/Vinchan

That's weird -- can you tell us WHAT setting you had it setup before so we can do some testing ?

**Blue ZX3** · 11-10-2009, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by MGD

I think the weather plugin is broken again. It used to show all the weather icons and labels without internet connection. Today I tryed this, disconnected from the network (no Internet) and started RR > Weather and no info shows up. Reconnected to the network, started RR > Weather and all the info shows up. Can we get that fixed again so we use the weather screens without internet?

I'll confirm & check this tonight.

**vinchan** · 11-10-2009, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by guino

That's weird -- can you tell us WHAT setting you had it setup before so we can do some testing ?

Indeed, it's very weird!
My XP Sp3 is in T-Chinese, and songs wereID3 V2.4 Unicode-BE
I changed the unicode option to English, and resaved my songs to V2.3 Unicode-LE as you've instructed. Then, everyting works fine?

To tell the truth, I have no clue at all why it works?!

I'll post some pictures when I get home tonight!

**mitchjs** · 11-10-2009, 09:27 PM

does the endianness make a difference for you vinchan?

**CherokeeChief** · 11-11-2009, 04:41 AM

Hi Guino. I noticed that with the 1109 release, the radio art in Car Wings Dynamic lite skin, is not more displayed. The Album Art is working fine. I use a Silabs usb radio.
Thanks.

**mitchjs** · 11-11-2009, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by CherokeeChief

Hi Guino. I noticed that with the 1109 release, the radio art in Car Wings Dynamic lite skin, is not more displayed. The Album Art is working fine. I use a Silabs usb radio.
Thanks.

there has been no change in radio art in some time....
if you are new to the latest RR, you might want to read the documentation
NEW Radio Skin Commands.txt

Code:

! "ALBUMART"              - see radio art (J command support)
* "RADIOART"              - Contains path to RadioArt image
                          - Contains path to RadioArt image
                            Uses RDS PI if available, else freq, else "radio.png"
                            A test is made if file exists... then falls back
                            "\RadioArt\PI21075.png"
                            "\RadioArt\10610.png"
                            "\RadioArt\radio.png"