edpaffjr.comToday I stumbled upon a widget for the Yahoo! engine that plays the online Sirius streams. Since I got Sirius last Christmas I have listened to the streams almost every day at work, but I’ve never really be a fan of the official streaming web app. For starters, it doesn’t even display what artist/song you are listening to or playing on other stations. This makes it hard to switch between stations and most of the time I would just leave it set on one station for the entire day.
Now that I’ve installed this widget, I can not only see what’s playing but I can also have preset stations that I can tune to with the press of one button. In addition, the widget has Alerts that can be configured to alert you when a certain artist or song is on any of the stations. The functionality of this is much closer to my Starmate unit and much improved over the standard online player.
Download the widget here to begin using it now. Please note that it does require that the Yahoo! widget engine is installed as well.
For those of you without Sirius, be sure to take advantage of the free online trial, including 48 hours of Howard Stern starting tomorrow.
So does this thing have that annoying popup that comes up occassionally asking if you’re still listening? Because when I’m on the treadmill and that comes up and then shuts down my player i get quite cranky.
I don’t think the standard player has had that in awhile, not since they launched their Internet Radio as a standalone product. Have you seen that message in the past month or so? I haven’t. Better get back on that treadmill! :)
yeah i see it all of the time…it only pops up like once an hour or so, but it always seems to hit while i’m in the middle of my workout
Strange. You may want to try the widget. I’ve read that it will get rid of that annoying popup message. It doesn’t take much to install.
You are only halfway through your work out after an hour?!?