Difference between revisions of "WiiRadio"

	WiiRadio
General
Author(s)	Scanff
Contributor(s)	TiMeBoMb
Type	Media player
Version	0.5
License	GPL
Links
	Download
	Website
	Discussion
	Source
	Downloadable via the Homebrew Browser
Peripherals

Revision as of 01:26, 12 March 2010

WiiRadio is a SHOUTcast stream player. It can read from thousands of Internet radio streams and play them back on the Wii.

Updates

03/11/2010 - Version 0.5 Released!
07/12/2009 - Version 0.4 Released!
05/16/2009 - Version 0.3 Released!
03/15/2009 - Version 0.2 Released!

Controls

In Browser

Button	Action
	Move cursor
	(Hold) Exit to loader
	Select
	Saves current playing stream to Playlists
	Options Screen
	Playlists/Browser/Genre Back
	Playlists/Browser/Genre Next
	Volume Up
	Volume Down
	Mute
	Show Visualizer
	Show Stream Information
	Show Browser

In Visualizer

Button	Action
	(Hold) Exit to loader
	Volume Up
	Volume Down
	Mute
	Back To Browser

Install/Usage

Installing The Application

Copy the "radiow" directory to your SD under /apps

NOTE: DO NOT rename "radiow" directory.

Tested on PAL 3.2 - works fine.

Tested on NTSC 3.3v2, 4.0 - works great!

Playlists

Copy the playlist file to "/apps/radiow/pls" on your SD card. Saving playlists from WiiRadio will create a *.pls file under "/apps/radiow/pls". Pressing the "+" button will add the playing station to the Playlists.

Internet Connection

Make sure you're getting a decent wireless connection on your Wii for better performance.

Free Space Requirements

WiiRadio requires free space on the SD card for caching. 10MB free recommended.

Skinning Reference

A W.I.P. document for the skinning engine can be found at - http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiRadio/Skinning_Ref

I've also released a Windows version of WiiRaio to aid in skinning. you can find it here http://wiiradio.googlecode.com/files/windows_v4.something.zip. Please do not report bugs against this as it's just a tool.

Note this feature is currenly not in WiiRadio and will be added in V0.5

Change Log

Version 0.5

Skins
Languages
Genre Searching
New visual system
Bug Fixes

Version 0.4

Added support for M3U files/format
Added three more visuals
Dynamic buffering based on stream bitrate
Added a couple of options (more will come)
Mute Icon for mute state
Added stream information screen press button
Ton of bug fixes

Version 0.3

Whole new GUI thanks to TiMeBoMb
Added a visualizer and black screen that acts as a burn reducer
Loading streams from a playlist have been changed and bugs fixed
Added a playlist delete option
Hovering over stations or playlists now scroll giving you all the information
Added Volume controls
Added dynamic buffering (if your signal is weak)
Fixed a crashing bug when parsing the ICY data
Added more controls from the WiiMote (see above)
Created a cache per genre so if the SHOUTcast DB does not respond you can play streams. If it does respond it will refresh your cache.
Caches up to 1,000 stations per genre. No more waiting when you click next or previous
Now using the new SDL port which improves the look and performance
Text no longer uses a bitmap, it uses SDL-TTF
Added informational pop-up's
Lots of bug fixes

Version 0.2

Changed logo - (Thank You TiMeBoMb for the new logo!)
Added support for loading Playlist files (*.pls) from the SD card
Fixed a few minor bugs
Increased pre-buffer size (this seems to help streaming on the Wii)

Version 0.1 (Preview version)

First version!

Screenshots

Main Interface (v0.3)
Playlist Deletion (v0.3)
Some Genres (v0.3)

Bug Reporting/Feature Requests

Please use the issue tool on Google SVN for reporting bugs or feature requests - http://code.google.com/p/wiiradio/issues/entry

Languages

Version 0.5 now contains the ability to change your language, however the current language packs are incomplete and maybe incorrect. If you'd like to help out with these please contact me.

Skins

Version 0.5 has the ability to skin WiiRadio. There are two skins by default, if you'd like to create one please see the skinning reference. Also feel free to fill in the blanks on it.

Thanks To

TiMeBoMb - For all the graphics work, ideas, feedback, support and testing.
Tantric - For SDL Wii Project. The use of libgui images.

http://demo-effects.sourceforge.net/" (The Demo Effects Collection). I pretty much based the visualizer from these examples.

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to this project please contact Scanff

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 == Updates ==
-'''07/12/2009''' - Version 0.4 Released!<br />'''05/16/2009''' - Version 0.3 Released!<br />'''03/15/2009''' - Version 0.2 Released!
+'''03/11/2010''' - Version 0.5 Released!<br />'''07/12/2009''' - Version 0.4 Released!<br />'''05/16/2009''' - Version 0.3 Released!<br />'''03/15/2009''' - Version 0.2 Released!
 == Controls ==