Comments on: Mac OS X XM Dashboard Widget

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:52:58 +0000

Yes. This is dead on 10.5.5. Sad Times.

By: John Burns

John Burns — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:46:18 +0000

I am on a Intel Mac Pro and I can login to XM but nothing happens after that. The Widget just sits there.

By: Tim Glenn

Tim Glenn — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:39:21 +0000

ya ya! thanks for the support! it was my first attempt at writing some useful widget for myself. I’m glad I could share it with everyone. I will be working on a new version once I figure out whats gonna happen with the merger. Maybe sirius and xm on the same widget! (I’ve also got solutions for the woes everyone is having with mplayer not dying!)

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:28:20 +0000

Yeah, the widget is somewhat flakey. At one point, I dragged a second instance onto my Dashboard to restart playback.

By: michael wisdom

michael wisdom — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:23:06 +0000

have any of the widget users noticed any bugs?

for me, when I stop a stream (hit the play button) and come back to it a few hours later, none of the buttons activate mplayer (the program behind the gui that plays the XM stream). I can hit the presets and the widget will tune into the right channel info, but no audio stream plays.

so far the only way i’ve known to fix this is by restarting the widget…

By: jon

jon — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:09:32 +0000

i found this one the other day on lifehacker, very handy when your experimenting with widgets and memory usage is a concern:
http://elaum.free.fr/index.php?page=English/Dashquit

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:27:23 +0000

For awhile, when I was between XM subs I did listen to AOL Radio (and XM) on the PC via AIM – was pretty cool and made up for the bloat. But, yeah – what’s up with the merger? I feel like XM is in a holding pattern until something is decided…

By: Big John

Big John — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:06:42 +0000

Along these lines if you’re not already an XM subscriber (damn you merger, why can’t you just go through so I can get a unified device!?)… the virtually free AOL Radio app is a nice alternative. You do need an AOL-verse account (AIM, free AOL, .Mac) and it’s not entirely commercial-free but is mostly-comm-free which is better than commercial radio.

Also, I recommend All Metallica and All Pearl Jam.

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