INTERACT FORUM
More => Old Versions => Media Jukebox => Topic started by: chaznet on June 15, 2002, 09:56:22 am
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A request for a future release: a way to save favorite stations without using the web media option. While everyone's favorites becoming part of a "collective" sounds like a nifty idea, the ones I've saved as my own have disappeared one to many times. I find I no longer use MJ8 for playing internet radio stations as I've given up on repeatedly re-adding the few stations I listen to.
WinAmp is much more user-oriented for this; you can create favorites, back them up, restore them if need be. With all that MJ8 does, it's odd this feature would be missing...
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It's all HTML based, so we use a cookie to save your favorites. So, just make sure you don't erase that cookie...
If enough people dislike that, we'll address it in the next version.
Thanks.
-Matt
JRiver, Inc.
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I agree with chaznet. I'd like to quickly add stations for my personal use without completing all the required fields necessary to submit the request.
Listening to: 'Tientos del Mentidero' from 'El Duende Flamenco de Paco de Lucia [US]' by 'Paco de Lucia' on Media Jukebox
Shelly
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The idea was that users would be helping users that way. What do other people think?
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Love the concept, hate cookies.
My feeling is that cookies are fine for their intended function of saving session information. Because so many folks are using them for nefarious purposes I use a tool to keep them that way. And frankly any person with half a concern for privacy would do the same too if they had a clue.
So please, for any information to be stored between sessions, please use another method.
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At one point, I found the cookie and added it to the 'don't delete' list in both Ad/Subtract and WindowWasher -- but eventually the cookie always flies south -- to many steps to get it back. The master-list-user-helping-user is a great resource for finding stations you might otherwise never run into -- but ideally a user's favorites would be stored another way, not part of the 'collective' feature.
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Thanks everyone. Keep the ideas flowing for the next version...
For now, to do what you want in MJ 8.0, you can start a station playing with File -> Open Streaming File... and then add it to a playlist. That way, you'll have a playlist of your favorite stations, independent of the "Web Radio" feature.
Take care.
-Matt
JRiver, Inc.
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The playlist option accomplished what I wanted -- didn't realize that was possible -- thanks!