I have Octoshape installed, and it's in my menu bar.  (mac, OS 10.5.8)

When I click on play, it goes online to a page, with a list of stations.

I click on Radio Paradise, and it takes me to the RP home page.  (It used to launch iTunes and begin the stream)

If I click on the Octoshape link on the Listen page, nothing at all happens.

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Is there not some simple explanation for how to listen to RP via Octoshape?  I don't know what the whole Foobar explanation is about. It can not possibly be as complicated as this tread makes it sound.  Is it?

Hello,

I've installed the Octoshape client on my iMac (Snow Leopard v10.6.2) and when I click on the Octoshape stream link, it asks for an associated program.  When I look in Applications, Octoshape is not there.

How do I associate the Octoshape stream with the Octoshape client and/or with iTunes?  Oh, I have emailed the good folks at Octoshape several days ago, and I have not heard back (yet).

TIA

Neil

 DaveInVA wrote:A-okay here this morning, too. Thanks, Bill, for all you do. Have a great day, RP'ers.

 michaelgmitchell wrote: 
Whatever was happening with Octoshape yesterday morning and afternoon cleared up for me by late afternoon and its still working great this morning...

 BillG wrote: 
About 8 hours before this changeover, I had set up to rip thirty or so hours of RP to listen in my car, so I have now listened to eight hours of the intermittently sputtering encoder, and now that I have listened to a couple of hours of the new one on the "Unknown Server" I can say confidently "That DID take care of the problems!

 schtan wrote: 
You can email those to me. I'll see what I can do about getting the file-checking script to be a little less finicky.

thanks
-bg

See !

 michaelgmitchell wrote: 
     How's this ?

Octoshape works fine for me here and now. Forum pages not so good !
Can not reply for one thing!

 DaveInVA wrote:Sorry to report the same here in the northeast. 

Don't know if its just me but the Octoshape has been doing the buffer under-run thing again today. This morning it did it occasionally but its gotten worse as the day goes on sometimes doing it multiple times a song now....

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
i get the same thing trying to upload tom petty superhighway mp3's ...

 BillG wrote: 
No not iTunes, I did buy the tunes from an online music seller - 7digital.com. They seem to be high quality digital files. I used that company before and never had a problem.

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
Was it created by iTunes?  iTunes creates mp3 files with non-standard headers (& inferior audio quality) that are often rejected by our file-checking script.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
No, it's not VBR. It has a bit rate of 320 with an audio sample rate of 44 kHz.

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
is it a variable bitrate?

I'm getting this message when I try to upload a file to the LRC:

Your upload doesn't appear to be an MP3 file. Double-check the file name as it needs to end in ".mp3".

However the file is definitely an mp3 file and it ends in .mp3

 HazzeSwede wrote:'Whinyboy' reports likewise. That's weird. But it sounds crystal-clear this evening in the East. Thanks, Bill.

 rosedraws wrote: 
With Windows XP I needed first to install the Octoshape Client.  I have then set it to use my default player (Foobar2000) and not to run on computer start up.  I have then created a desktop shortcut with the location URL "octoshape:PARADISE.stream1_mp3" .

On my system this starts up Octoshape, then starts up Foobar2000 and then plays the RP stream.  Song title and artist displayed.

I used to not bother with Octoshape as it was such a faf to open up Octoshape, wait for my browser to open and display the choice of feeds and start playing.

I was disappointed not to be able to google a straight forward solution so now I have found one I have put it here:
http://blog1.dhsound.co.uk/blog/_archives/2009/11/2/4369343.html and google has indeed found it.

This one click solution is great and sounds fine too.  Does it save Bill any money?  I don't know but I hope so.

 BillG wrote: 
Thanks Bill,

That seems to have sorted it.