and that all installation steps are performed including those in the Sound control panel.Ģ. Make sure the installed software is at least v2.1 found here. for example shark://98.1?Title=Rock FM&Subtitle=live radioġ. The user can add Title and Subtitle parameters to the URL to get extra text or override the Favorites name. It seems to be useful to have the possibility to keep the FM/AM presets separate from Internet radio.Ī user can also make entries in the standard top-level Favorites with the URL prefix "shark://" so that the Favorite with URL "shark://104.0" will tune to FM 104.0 MHz and "shark://1090" would tune into AM 1090kHz. The Sharkplay favorites list is just like favorites. Click on SharkPlay menu and you will a favorites list and a "manual tuning" entry where users can enter a frequency from webUI, SB remote or SBC controller. Once installed - there is a SharkPlay menu in Extras on WebUI, SB and SBC. The Windows version of the plugin includes a Windows port of the shark2 utility and also uses the wavin2cmd utility written by Joe Bryan for the WaveInput plugin. The original shark2 application was written by Michael Rolig with subsequent mods by other (see ) The plugin uses an small application called shark2 which sends command to radioSHARK to set the frequency and turn on/off the leds. Ensure a reliable radio stream for alarm when ISP does not provide a reliable service. Local radio internet feeds are poor quality compared to FM. Reducing download usage (and charges) when listening to local radio. This version of the plugin only works on SC 7.1-7.2. As our original report said: “ can record audio Internet streams, either scheduled or real-time, from any streaming audio application.” That would be a nice feature, but honestly, it doesn’t seem to be one that’s integral to the product.Announcing version 1.00 of SharkPlay - plugin which enables controlling & playing an FM/AM tuner from Griffin Technology - the USB radioSHARK2 ( ). There’s one feature, promised for the RadioShark way back when, that doesn’t exist in the version I’ve been using. And if you check the Accumulates When Closed preference, RadioShark will even continue to record the live radio buffer while it’s closed. This means you can quit out of RadioShark and the program will still grab your scheduled recordings. RadioShark is actually two different applications - the interface application and a background server application. The size of the recording buffer is completely configurable (as long as you’ve got enough hard-drive space), and you can also configure just how many seconds you skip when you press the Rewind and Forward buttons - a 15- or 30- second skip works great when skipping ads. Here, you can listen to music for 30 minutes, then switch to news - and still back up into the music. RadioShark’s time-shifting features work as advertised, although as a TiVo user I found it a little disconcerting to be able to listen to myself changing radio stations - on TiVo digital-video recorders, the recording buffer is wiped out when you change channels. You can play back recording items from within RadioShark’s scheduling window, but an easier path is to set the program’s preferences to automatically add your recordings to a special RadioShark playlist within iTunes. On the right, the Sched button opens up a window that lets you set up or play back scheduled recordings EQ lets you process the radio sound iTunes-style with an equalizer, and TS slides out a drawer below the main window containing “time-shifting” playback features. On the left, the Band button lets you switch between AM and FM the Seek button advances the frequency until it finds a strong signal and the Rec button automatically begins recording what you’re listening to. There are three buttons on either side of the “dial,” and a volume slider right below it. A slider along the top lets you change frequencies - there doesn’t seem to be a way to change frequencies by typing in a number. The main RadioShark application interface is a metallic, iTunes-style window. And I can confirm that the RadioShark software does deliver on what it promises, although (as you might expect from a first version of any software) it’s not without some quirks. What has made the RadioShark a topic of interest over the past 14 months has been its combination of hardware and software. To be honest, a USB radio isn’t very interesting. However, we could only listen to the radio at a small number of sites, so we can’t vouch for what the reception would be like at your home or office. In testing at the Macworld offices and a few residences of Macworld staff members, we found the reception to be decent, although not quite as good as a quality radio. According to Griffin, the jack also doubles as an external antenna plug.
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