Joined: Mar 25, 2010 Posts: 805 Location: Denver, CO
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:59 am Post subject:
rorpage wrote:
Thanks David! I'll see what I can do about that.
If anyone has a Kindle Fire, the app is now available in the Amazon app store: http://amzn.com/B00AE8S1SG
Enjoy!
Last night I downloaded the app and gave it a good workout. I love the layout! It's very easy to navigate, and aside from the favorites list taking a very long time to load up (I assume that's because it puts everything on one page, and I have a full list), the core functions all seem to be behaving as expected.
I did encounter two bugs, however:
1. When the device screen times out and sleeps, the stream crashes and the app has to be force closed. I got around this by changing the time-out from five minutes to one hour, but this is a massive drain on the battery, as you can imagine.
2. When hidden tracks or other tracks that cannot be rated (station IDs, the Did You Know? segments, etc.) play in the broadcast, trying to rate them also causes the app to crash. It's easy enough to avoid doing so, but new listeners, especially those who might be downloading the app without ever having visited the site, probably wouldn't know that these tracks are unrateable on the actual website.
Joined: Jul 30, 2009 Posts: 37 Location: Indianapolis
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:07 am Post subject:
Wow, that's awesome! Thank you!
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aside from the favorites list taking a very long time to load up (I assume that's because it puts everything on one page, and I have a full list)
Yep, right now that's the way it works. I have to grab all of the song IDs and then get all of the song info. I will implement paging and that should help (trust me, I stopped using it myself because it was a pain).
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1. When the device screen times out and sleeps, the stream crashes and the app has to be force closed. I got around this by changing the time-out from five minutes to one hour, but this is a massive drain on the battery, as you can imagine.
I've not experience the time out/crash thing but I've also not tested on a physical Kindle. Thanks for the notice! It drains my battery a ton too but I don't think there's a good way around that sadly.
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2. When hidden tracks or other tracks that cannot be rated (station IDs, the Did You Know? segments, etc.) play in the broadcast, trying to rate them also causes the app to crash. It's easy enough to avoid doing so, but new listeners, especially those who might be downloading the app without ever having visited the site, probably wouldn't know that these tracks are unrateable on the actual website.
The API I wrote is supposed to know if the track is real or not and then the apps are supposed to know if they can be rated. I'll research this though - thank you!
Joined: Mar 25, 2010 Posts: 805 Location: Denver, CO
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:14 am Post subject:
Just a point of clarification on the "unrateable track" issue: The tracks that cannot be rated typically show up with no accumulated rating, so they're easy to identify, as such. I can still go into the menu and select "Rate track", however. After selecting my rating and submitting it, that is when the app crashes.
It actually displays a generic error message containing your username telling me that I need to force close the application, but a that's just a long way of saying that the app crashes. The same error is displayed upon unlocking the device when the screen times out while the stream is playing.
Joined: Jul 30, 2009 Posts: 37 Location: Indianapolis
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:23 am Post subject:
Yeah, for some reason the API isn't calculating correctly if the song is rate-able or not. I'm working on enhancing it so hopefully it becomes more accurate.
The generic error message with my username is due to the fact that I developed it under my personal domain name and the way Java/Android works. I'm sure it was com.rorpage.uablisten (which is backwards of what you normally type as a URL). Long story short, I appreciate your feedback very much!
Joined: Jul 30, 2009 Posts: 37 Location: Indianapolis
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:35 pm Post subject:
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Awesome! I'll give it a go as soon as it's ready.
Last update today I promise!
I found a few bugs and made some changes that I hope everyone likes. With the Amazon app store I can't cancel a pending app submission so I'll have to wait until they're done reviewing it to submit this better version, sorry.
For Android/Google Play users the even better update should show up in a few hours.
Joined: Nov 13, 2005 Posts: 9891 Location: Arizona/Colorado
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 5:19 pm Post subject:
Thank you very much - since this is my only connection to UAB during the day at my workplace - I appreciate all you have done and continue to do with the app -
Joined: Jul 30, 2009 Posts: 37 Location: Indianapolis
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:45 am Post subject:
The Google Play and Amazon apps should be in the stores (or will be very soon).
Please check them out if you like and let me know what you think (especially about the two menus now instead of just one). I'm not sure I'm wild about it but I like feedback
Joined: May 04, 2006 Posts: 1754 Location: Los Osos, CA
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:20 am Post subject:
THE POSITIVE I love the app.
I liked the one page for "my favorites". I realize it was slow to load but I felt it was more manageable when mobile, especially at a stop light. I miss the what's next feature but that is not by any means a deal breaker for me. _________________ Jason
Joined: Jul 30, 2009 Posts: 37 Location: Indianapolis
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:47 am Post subject:
Thanks Jason!
I'll see what I can do to make the favorites list faster and maybe load 20 or 30 at a time?
The "What's Next?" is stil there I just moved it under the "Star" menu. I broke it out to make one menu for the "Now Playing" stuff and the other for other app functions. Perhaps I should put it back and just make one lone menu?
I did that mostly because I wasn't wild about the plus/minus button for add/remove song from favorites.
I whipped this up (using something I had made before). Can someone with an iPhone or iPad test it please? It should work in any browser (except Firefox I believe).
I've used this a bit and have had some different things happen, but I haven't had the time to actually document what I've seen. I'll try and get to that this weekend and give more details on what I'm seeing.
BUT, overall, I like it. _________________ When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
--Walt Disney
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