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guino · 07-31-2005, 08:41 PM

It CAN run Both... but, right now, one at a time -- that is, you can switch beween sirius and XM much like you can switch between FM and XM (or MP3 and XM, etc)..

The only things missing on the SIRIUS support now are:

-Station Art support (is anybody willing to make some transparent GIFs for this ??? PLEASE !!)
-Favorites list management (just like there's for XM -- mostly done)
-Reload List function

Other than the above, everything is working... Sirius has a few things lacking when compared to XM:

-Song/Programming TIME information -- it is not possible to display the total or current time of the song or programming.
-It is not possible to poll specific channels for Artist/Title information (like you can on XM).. There are functions to do it, but they only work after the receiver has "filled up" the the stations information (that happens automatically). This is only awkward when starting the receiver, because you basically have to wait for it to update the stations, and once they update, they are kept up to date very nicely for ALL stations at once (so it counter balances the fact XM doesn't do that).
-The Sirius tuner is WAY SLOWER than the XM tuner. It can easily take a few seconds for it to tune into a station... it is faster to change stations to close by stations than to change stations farther apart.. (i.e. changing from 1 to 2 is not very long, but from 1 to 160 or vice versa, takes a few seconds -- this is a hardware limitation).

I am studying the possibility of leaving the SIRIUS tuner ON (in the background) so it handles faster when switching into "SIRIUS mode". This would help keep song information up to date when playing MP3s and such -- but could affect performance if not done right (although not much) ..

07-31-2005, 08:41 PM	#28
guino RoadRunner Mastermind Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Vitória, ES - Brazil Posts: 8,105	It CAN run Both... but, right now, one at a time -- that is, you can switch beween sirius and XM much like you can switch between FM and XM (or MP3 and XM, etc).. The only things missing on the SIRIUS support now are: -Station Art support (is anybody willing to make some transparent GIFs for this ??? PLEASE !!) -Favorites list management (just like there's for XM -- mostly done) -Reload List function Other than the above, everything is working... Sirius has a few things lacking when compared to XM: -Song/Programming TIME information -- it is not possible to display the total or current time of the song or programming. -It is not possible to poll specific channels for Artist/Title information (like you can on XM).. There are functions to do it, but they only work after the receiver has "filled up" the the stations information (that happens automatically). This is only awkward when starting the receiver, because you basically have to wait for it to update the stations, and once they update, they are kept up to date very nicely for ALL stations at once (so it counter balances the fact XM doesn't do that). -The Sirius tuner is WAY SLOWER than the XM tuner. It can easily take a few seconds for it to tune into a station... it is faster to change stations to close by stations than to change stations farther apart.. (i.e. changing from 1 to 2 is not very long, but from 1 to 160 or vice versa, takes a few seconds -- this is a hardware limitation). I am studying the possibility of leaving the SIRIUS tuner ON (in the background) so it handles faster when switching into "SIRIUS mode". This would help keep song information up to date when playing MP3s and such -- but could affect performance if not done right (although not much) .. __________________ Road Runner RR's Myspace "Being happy is not about having what you want, it's about wanting what you have." "The best things in life are always free - but that doesn't mean money can't buy you good things."