Friday, February 24, 2006

Radio Streams trouble

Maybe I was a bit too optimistic in my last post. It seems there are many different types of radio streams, and handling them all in a simple manner has proved extremely difficult. Plus, what happens when a radio stream disconnects? Stability is the most important aspect of this application, so I'm going through and testing dozens of radio stations. I'm adding a background thread to handle remote stream connections, and delegate methods in the alarm to handle the case where the stream fails to connect, or becomes disconnected during play. (In either case the app can fall back on the default alarm, and you'll still wake up!) I'll try to keep my blog updated as the radio fix progresses.

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