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i read herethat it was on the market so i was wondering if any body has the apk ?
yozpalang said:
i read herethat it was on the market so i was wondering if any body has the apk ?
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@Iheartradio said it would be there around 3PM this afternoon, not sure of the timezone though, but i am guessing EST
Edit: just rechecked the tweet, from @iheartradio, and yes, it will be available at 3PM EST
I was wondering the same. I can't find it in the market. Anybody got it.
Just downloaded it from the market.
Unzip, then install.
im so excited i finally downloaded it from the market.
wtf, this thing looks great, has the clearchannel stations i've been wanting, but only "connecting" all the time, never actually plays...tried many different stations...anybody know whats up with this app?
check my signature for what i'm using
i have emailed the developer, waiting for response
have a bugreport if someone wants to see it
Good luck with those emails to the dev. Been trying to get an updated status on this for months. Over my 1.5M wifi connection, the thing connects in 1-2 seconds, even when I'm only getting "one bar" of wifi...over my 5 bar, 800K 3G connection at my gym, it takes 5 minutes and drops out continuously. Another DRM laden failure to satisfy customers...
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Good luck with those emails to the dev. Been trying to get an updated status on this for months. Over my 1.5M wifi connection, the thing connects in 1-2 seconds, even when I'm only getting "one bar" of wifi...over my 5 bar, 800K 3G connection at my gym, it takes 5 minutes and drops out continuously. Another DRM laden failure to satisfy customers...
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damn it . . . .
If it's any consolation, it works fine on the Droid (apparently). Odd how so many streaming radio apps, Pandora, Last.fm, etc work great over even marginal 3G, but Clear Channel has managed to make streaming even AM radio look difficult...
yup...works great on wifi, takes 4 minutes to start streaming on 3G
better than nuthin i guess, wonder if its buffering a large amount of play time first
It can't be buffering as it will drop out regularly. My theory is it's trying to initiate some bloated DRM layer and when it doesn't succeed, it drops and resets. You also cannot access Clear Channel stuff on a PC without their bloated web client while other stations let you stream through your own software.
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It can't be buffering as it will drop out regularly. My theory is it's trying to initiate some bloated DRM layer and when it doesn't succeed, it drops and resets. You also cannot access Clear Channel stuff on a PC without their bloated web client while other stations let you stream through your own software.
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i know...
this app definitely needs work it will probably never get, but, i've been trying to add some clearchannel stations to stuff like AOR, Droidcumulus, Cherry Player, even moodio.fm (which is now mymuze.fm) since november with no luck, so this is better than nothing
i just gotta live with selecting the station five minutes before i want to listen to it
planning my radio listening in advance now....
You used to be able to extract the stream URL and use your own client, but they seem to be changing the URL periodically through the hour to force their own interface.
el_smurfo said:
You used to be able to extract the stream URL and use your own client, but they seem to be changing the URL periodically through the hour to force their own interface.
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authorization tokens...thats why i hate clearchannel
they claim its about saving bandwidth, therefore money
they dont want to have people outside of the advertisers' customers listening area hogging up their bandwidth, cause people in austrailia arent gonna buy groceries at the pittsburgh grocery stores that advertise during the penguins' hockey games, for example
its akamai....they got the whole authorization token thing going on....changes every 45 minutes or so on some of the stations i've monitored
Full disclosure, I will be posting this same review over at the Xoom forums (http://xoomforums.com) site as well under the username JustDroid.
My set up at home is as follows: Time Warner Cable with a Cisco (formerly Scientific Atlanta) Explorer 8640 HDC DVR and a Slingbox SOLO. I have to 30/5 internet package.
The Good
Video quality is excellent. I have watched HD shows both on my home wi-fi and at work accessing across the internet and the picture and sound quality is astounding.
The Bad
I was not able to get an on screen remote other than the default remote. I tried several different settings via the online set up at http://setup.slingbox.xom. I tried the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300 HD, the Time Warner Explorer 8300, the Time Warner Universal Remote, and the Cisco Explorer 8640. The TWC Univeral and the Cisco Explorer 8640 remotes even show the default generic remote control on the website in addition to on the Xoom. With this generic remote, I have no way to access the recorded shows list on my DVR.
There is an 8 to 10 second delay in the function of the remote on screen and something actually happening on the DVR. This makes fast-forwarding through the commercials next to impossible. This wouldn't be a problem if you were watching a commercial free movie but for network TV this is a major pain in the a$$.
The Ugly
I purchased the Android tablet SlingPlayer app last Tuesday. After messing with it for a day, I gave up and called Sling support. The gentleman I spoke with did an OK job overall but was not able to help me. I gave him my Sling account username and password and he logged in to my account via the web interface and went through the same steps I did. This gentleman put me on hold for a couple of minutes while he looked for a tablet he could test on, but came back and said he didn't have one available. He had me test on the Xoom a couple of times, but there was no change to the on screen remote.
Friday afternoon, I still had not heard anything from Sling support so I called back. The gentleman I spoke with explained that this case was escalated and said he would transfer me to the team it had been sent to. After several minutes of me being on hold, the same gentleman came back on the line and explained that the second level team told him there was no resolution at this time. So I got the big brush-off. As of this morning I still have not heard anything from Sling support, however I did get a customer satisfaction email this morning, asking for my feedback on my recent support call. I explained that there has been no contact nor resolution in this case and left my contact information in the online form.
I have been in the customer support field for 15+ years, and I would never let my customers go 6 days with no contact after I had escalated an issue. And I would have followed up had I been the one the issue had been escalated to, even if there was no resolution, at least I would let the customer know we were still looking in to the issue.
My Impressions
This tablet version of SlingPlayer mobile was a beta product at best, and should not yet have been released to general availablility. It should have been tested on more tablet devices, it's not like the Xoom isn't a popular device.
I have always been pleased with Sling hardware and the phone version of the SlingPlayer software, both Windows Mobile and Android. This is the third Sling device I have owned, and I upgraded to better versions as I got HD cable at home. This experience has left me bitter and angry. I am not sure I could recommend Sling products in the future.
Thanks for listening to my rant and feel free to comment or if you have a suggestion to resolve this, I would be glad to hear it.
UPDATE - Your case has been escalated
My original case was escalated to the second level team the night I originally called it in. I have called several times since, and never actually get to speak with anyone in second level support. I hear the same thing that 'they are working on it and will call you when they have a resolution'!
I do technical support for a living and I would have been fired if I had a case open for 15 days and not notified my client of my progress.
Looks like I now have to call Google and ask for a refund.
were you able to get your refund? im waiting for this to come out for "trial"
Just started today... Every time I try to watch a Youtube video from any of my devices a captcha screen appears on the TV and there is no way to enter the text. I have searched Google for a fix but am coming up empty.
Has anyone else experienced this.. Very annoying.
I have tried a factory reset on the Chromecast, restarted the phone, computer, logged out and in of Youtube..Nothing works.
Thanks in advance of anyone has a fix!
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fastco said:
Just started today... Every time I try to watch a Youtube video from any of my devices a captcha screen appears on the TV and there is no way to enter the text. I have searched Google for a fix but am coming up empty.
Has anyone else experienced this.. Very annoying.
I have tried a factory reset on the Chromecast, restarted the phone, computer, logged out and in of Youtube..Nothing works.
Thanks in advance of anyone has a fix!
SC
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Are you getting the captcha if you play the video on laptop/mobile. What kind of network you are on? If you are in a shared network (office public or college etc) and someone else is abusing youtube you may get the captcha.
There are lots of ways your account/network will get flagged for verification. If you use a computer on the same network to enter the captcha, you might can get it to go away pretty quickly. Usually these things clear up after a day or two.
Yes, mine started several days ago as well. I often get the captcha screen on Youtube when surfing on my computer. However obviously having a keyboard the problem is solved. The other day when Chromecast started showing the screen there was nothing I could do. I tried to stream from my tablet and my phone, but neither showed the captcha screen. Only the TV showed it. This is because Chromecast is seen as it's own device, like a mini computer.
I have been emailing with Google and called the phone number to discuss. What's been more worrisome is that so far I don't feel confident that they understand what I'm talking about. Which seems crazy. My next plan is the next time it does it bad like it did the other day where I had to give up I plan to video it and post on YouTube to send them a link. It's the only thing I can think of for them to get the message.
I also did what was suggested by going to another computer and getting the screen to come up on it's own hoping that if I entered the words it would work. Nope no luck. The captcha wants to know that the particular device is being maned by a human and not just an autonomous device trying to get YouTube hits. So Chromecast is on it's own unless they do a software patch to fix them all to skip the captcha screen.
We shall see
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Are you getting the captcha if you play the video on laptop/mobile. What kind of network you are on? If you are in a shared network (office public or college etc) and someone else is abusing youtube you may get the captcha.
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Thanks, I am on my home network. I also get the captcha on the device but it's separate from the one in the Chromecast.
See people here don't quite understand like the people at Google don't understand. The captcha screen is unique to each device that tries to access YouTube. and if you're getting the screen it's because the overall network you are on hits youtube a lot. Perhaps it's because you do a lot of YouTube watching, or it could be because you're on a network with many other people. There's absolutely no way to really solve this issue. This is a bad bad bug that Google overlooked. It should be easy enough for them to solve because you know they see what devices are trying to access YouTube, and you know they know when it's a Chromecast device. So they don't even have to write any update for the Chromecast, they simply need to solve it on the side of the YouTube site that when it sees a Chromecast device it will skip the captcha screen.
Google are you listening?
OK today everything is back to normal.. Very annoying though and I hope Google addresses it..
Thanks for the replies!!
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So I got a chromecast over the vacations and it was working perfectly. Then yesterday it stopped while I was using it. I tried again to cast anything (youtube and Netflix) and it gives me an error message. I have tried factory reseting it twice, and nothing has changed. I have never rooted it or anything. Does anyone have any ideas?
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weldawadyathink said:
So I got a chromecast over the vacations and it was working perfectly. Then yesterday it stopped while I was using it. I tried again to cast anything (youtube and Netflix) and it gives me an error message. I have tried factory reseting it twice, and nothing has changed. I have never rooted it or anything. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Can you tell us the error message shown in the application(s)?
Also would help to know your make/model of router.
So of course. I try everything I can think of, then ask here, and the second I post it starts to work again. Thanks for helping me out even if I didn't need it. In case anyone still cares, the error said something like "error sending video to device", and it is an att uverse router.
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Hahaha keep an eye on it. If it got a firmware update it might have been something related to UPnP or DHCP as those addresses are cached for a short time by the router. Let us know of it shows up again, otherwise have fun!
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bhiga said:
Hahaha keep an eye on it. If it got a firmware update it might have been something related to UPnP or DHCP as those addresses are cached for a short time by the router. Let us know of it shows up again, otherwise have fun!
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So actually this is still a problem. I cannot play more than about 3 minutes of a youtube video without it giving me an error. Netflix still works fine though. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening?
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weldawadyathink said:
So actually this is still a problem. I cannot play more than about 3 minutes of a youtube video without it giving me an error. Netflix still works fine though. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening?
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If you can tell us the make and model number, or point to the manual maybe we can find some probably settings that need adjustment, if the router isn't already listed on Google's known router issues page.
Otherwise, look for options that mention
IGMP
IPv6
Multicast
QoS
I added my mac address to the exception list as per Google instructions for 2 wire routers, but I am too tired to try anything tonight. I will post soon letting you know if it helped.
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Same issue. I'm on 15250 with an actiontec c1000a modem. I can see the chromecast on all my devices but its being very erratic.
All this started with "test a" - I queued 2 videos from my phone, played 1 full 3:30 min video, and the 2nd video made the chromecast hang after 30s or so. It was unresponsive to all other devices and apps.
Did a factory reset, set everything up again. I played several videos under 3 mins, then switched devices, then switched to play music - all worked. Then I went back to "test a" and same problem.
edit : turns out it's always 1 video that does the "killing" as such. Prodigy's stand up (labelled "best quality") on YT. I don't want to link to the video really, but can anyone see if the same issue happens to them?
thanatos_evo said:
Same issue. I'm on 15250 with an actiontec c1000a modem. I can see the chromecast on all my devices but its being very erratic.
All this started with "test a" - I queued 2 videos from my phone, played 1 full 3:30 min video, and the 2nd video made the chromecast hang after 30s or so. It was unresponsive to all other devices and apps.
Did a factory reset, set everything up again. I played several videos under 3 mins, then switched devices, then switched to play music - all worked. Then I went back to "test a" and same problem.
edit : turns out it's always 1 video that does the "killing" as such. Prodigy's stand up (labelled "best quality") on YT. I don't want to link to the video really, but can anyone see if the same issue happens to them?
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I've got an Actiontec c1000a, found the Prodigy video and will test it out later today.
Do you have WMM turned off on your Actiontec?
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Do you have WMM turned off on your Actiontec?
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Don't know. I'll check once I get home. I'm guessing I'll find it in the modem admin page?
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Don't know. I'll check once I get home. I'm guessing I'll find it in the modem admin page?
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WMM is usually in the Advanced Wireless settings for most routers.
I did what Google said to do on the page you linked for a 2 wire modem, but nothing changed. Do you have any more ideas? It worked fine before the update, but now on YouTube only, it can't play more than about 3 minutes. It is an att uverse router, and I can get the exact model if needed
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I did what Google said to do on the page you linked for a 2 wire modem, but nothing changed. Do you have any more ideas? It worked fine before the update, but now on YouTube only, it can't play more than about 3 minutes. It is an att uverse router, and I can get the exact model if needed
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First try power cycling the router, then Chromecast. If that doesn't help please post model, sounds like something RTSP related maybe.
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thanatos_evo said:
Same issue. I'm on 15250 with an actiontec c1000a modem. I can see the chromecast on all my devices but its being very erratic.
All this started with "test a" - I queued 2 videos from my phone, played 1 full 3:30 min video, and the 2nd video made the chromecast hang after 30s or so. It was unresponsive to all other devices and apps.
Did a factory reset, set everything up again. I played several videos under 3 mins, then switched devices, then switched to play music - all worked. Then I went back to "test a" and same problem.
edit : turns out it's always 1 video that does the "killing" as such. Prodigy's stand up (labelled "best quality") on YT. I don't want to link to the video really, but can anyone see if the same issue happens to them?
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Couldn't get this to fail, sorry for the delay testing it.
It seems to me that my chromecast just hates these videos. Every other youtube video works fine except this audio book I have been listening to on YouTube. Thanks for all the help anyway.
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Hi everyone, this is my first post here, so thank you in advance to any help provided to me on this issue!!
I bought a Google Chromecast dongle from Bestbuy the other day so I could stream Mobdro from my phone to the Chromecast. Everything works when I press cast in Mobdro, however the stream always cuts out roughly 10 mins in.... if I watch on my phone then it streams with no issues.
I went into the settings from the Google home app and cannot change anything that would be relevant to this. I've tried it on my wife's phone with the same problem. My modem is in the same room with 50mbps download and 10mbps upload and I have no other connection issues with any other device on my network. Lastly, I've also tried it on another tv with the same outcome.
Any solutions or ideas on this issue would be GREATLY appreciated as this is driving me nuts!!!
Ever figure out a fix for this? I'm having the same issue, and it's infuriating.
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To add a little more context:
It's only Mobdro that has this issue for me. Every other app I've tried with Chromecast support can stream for hours.
I've tried it on two different Chromecasts (a regular and an ultra) on multiple networks (including through ethernet on the Chromecast ultra) on two different TVs and from two different devices (my phone and tablet).
Screen mirroring and using Mobdro works without interruption, as well as just streaming Mobdro on my phone. It's only when I use Mobdro with the in-app Chromecast feature that this problem occurs. Sometimes I'll get five minutes, other times I'll be able to watch almost a full 45 minutes of football.
All this being said, I've narrowed it to two things: the Mobdro Chromecast API implementation is somehow faulty (which would result in way more forum posts about this that I can't seem to find), or both of my wireless networks hate the combination of Mobdro and Chromecast (which seems even less likely).
I'm at a complete loss...
By any chance have either of you figured out what the issue is or how to fix it? Have the same exact problem and can't find a fix for it either.
Same Issues
Works absolutely perfect on phone. Can watch entire primetime network programming.
If I try casting, it stops after about 10 minutes and has a hard time rebooting.
Every other app other than Modro works seamlessly with Chromecast.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
WillieJamesOutlawJr said:
Works absolutely perfect on phone. Can watch entire primetime network programming.
If I try casting, it stops after about 10 minutes and has a hard time rebooting.
Every other app other than Modro works seamlessly with Chromecast.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
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I still can't figure out how to get it to stream seamlessly without stopping. I did manage to get rid of all of the advertisements. One thing that did seem to help a bit was increasing the speed of my internet service to 100mb download and updating my router. Sometimes I can stream from Mobdro without any problem (for hours without it stopping), other times it will stop every 5-10 minutes. I'm thinking that the problem is probably on their end, something to do with Chromecast compatibility. It's probably the reason they don't charge for premium service anymore, too many people complaining about the Chromecast support.