Internet Radio app for Sailfish OS

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#21

i tried 1.6.0.1 from nesnomis and from adel and also the inofficial build from jollailja. nothing works :frowning:

#22

For my version (I’m adel), I’ve just took, back then, the latest code on git and compile it for aarch64.
Haven’t done anything specific in the code. On the authors original Github, the code hasn’t been updated since then, actually. So I guess it’s not developed anymore.

#23

What does “nothing works” actually mean? Doesn’t start at all, doesn’t list radio stations, doesn’t play streams?

If it works for me (on both 10 III and XA2U) then it simply must work for you, too. Maybe you need to install some missing packages related to multimedia / streaming?

Check if you have e.g. mpris-qt5 and mpris-qt5-qml-plugin installed.

If not, then

devel-su pkcon install mpris-qt5

and / or

devel-su pkcon install mpris-qt5-qml-plugin

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#24

I think you can also use the Jupii app to manage these playlists.

#25

with the OpenRepos version i just get a blank white screen
i tried 1.6.0.1 from nesnomis and from adel and also the inofficial build from jollailja.

The Version from jolla store starts but cannot find any stream. Same with SailWave, see initial post

#26

I did some fixes in original project in github some time ago and I uploaded the rpm for aarch64 there. I’ve built it today for armv7hl and I’ve uploaded it, you can try the rpm file from here.
It works fine for me in sfos 4.6, I hope it works for you

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#27

@carmenfdezb Thank you so much for supporting this wonderful app, I love it!

I see now on Github, that your new build for armv7hl has 326 kB in size and the same version number 1.6.0-1 as the old one.
I’m still on 4.5.0.24 and the rpm file I installed had 293,82 kB (I saved it also on SD-card) and the same version number. It works like a charm!
Q: Does it make any sense to deinstall & reinstall the latest build for a 4.5.0.24 user? Are there also other improvements in the new build?

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#28

Why didn’t you just install the missing mpris packages as I suggested? That’s the very reason why it didn’t work for you, because the corresponding dependencies were not included in those builds’ spec file.

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#29

I’m glad you like it! :slight_smile: Yep, I didn’t change version but I made some fixes on original project: update mpris module, added sailjail support and added some flag countries that were missed. I created a pull request with all these modifications but this project seems to be abandoned, you can see in this link: Sfos 4.5 by carmenfdezb · Pull Request #30 · nesnomis/harbour-allradio · GitHub

The rpms I’ve built work fine for sfos 4.5 and 4.6, you can try it.

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#30

Yeeeessss! it works!
thank you sooo much, for fixing this wonderful app! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :sparkling_heart: :sparkling_heart: :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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#31
  1. i had troubles installing the mpris package (not everyone here is developer)
  2. updating mpris package on my phone is a workaround, not a solution
  3. an app should bring all necessary and working depending packages
#32

It doesn’t take being a developer to re-type a (given) simple command in the terminal. And in case of any problem you could have asked.

Installing a missing package needed by an application is definitely a solution, not a workaround.

That free and open source application was made by someone long ago, when mpris was preinstalled in the OS. But then mpris got replaced with amber-mpris, whereas the application was not further developed so no one updated it accordingly, simply because no one had any obligation to do it (it was only rebuilt for aarch64 by some volunteer, and now another person tweaked it ad hoc for amber-mpris). In case of such applications it is NOT that “an app SHOULD do this and that” because it is no one’s duty to do it. Since its source code is freely available, either learn how to do it yourself, or if someone sacrifices his time trying to help you then at least try not to be impolite.

So, rather than to me (who has nothing to do with this application, other than being a happy user of it after having installed the missing mpris packages), you should have kindly suggested it to the person who made those builds. He posted a message in this thread and was available to your requests and suggestions, but you clearly weren’t interested in it.

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Anyway, since the adel’s (i.e. @orangecat’s) builds are the ones available in OpenRepos / Storeman and currently they don’t work without manually installing mpris (and knowing about it), it would be great if @orangecat could update his builds by either adding the missing dependency to mpris or - probably even better - replacing the mpris QML import with amber-mpris just like @carmenfdezb did, and then simply upload such updated builds as new versions replacing the current ones. It would fix the problem for all those grabbing the app via Storeman / Openrepos.

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#33

At what update was that, @wetab73 ?

#34

I’ve got no idea, actually… I’ve noticed that it was gone at some point because one of the patches that I use relied on it (for controlling media playback: play/pause/previous/next using volume buttons) and a few years ago it worked “out of the box”, but when at some point I was reinstalling SFOS from scratch (I guess it was one of 4.5 releases in 2023) the patch suddenly didn’t want to work and after checking it I realised that mpris was missing in the system.

#35
  1. amber.mpris is available since SailfishOS 4.4.0, see [Changelog] Vanha Rauma 4.4.0.
  2. org.nemomobile.mpris is still available and functional as of SailfishOS 4.6.0 (AFAIU @wetab73), but not installed by default any more since SailfishOS 4.4.0.
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#36

Yes, org.nemomobile.mpris seems to be still normally working, or at least I haven’t noticed any issues with what still uses it, namely the aforementioned patch (Volume Control Media Playback or something like that, modified by me to support play/pause), AllRadio, and some more.