To answer the recent questions:
* I got the 'Error Login failed could not load URL with POST' but then when I logged in to XM Radio Online successfully the normal way and came back to the widget, it worked fine. If it happens to me again, I'll see if I can determine a solution
* Parental controls are a good idea, I'll look into providing that in the widget.
* To the guy who was wanting it to just display the song information without streaming music. If you click the stop button, the player will continue to retrieve updates for the display without playing the stream. The widget has to actually be closed to not retrieve channel information updates.

I am working on a revamp that would make the widget resizable, but I can't put a timeline on it. The sourceforge project, linked above, has rss feeds that you can bury in your feed reader if you want to be notified when a new version is ready

This widget is great!!! I love it and it has been rock solid, working day in and day out for over a year! We use it at work - No more logouts!

I love this widget, but for some reason it has started acting up, making me close it.

Was great!!

Just stopped working today! ?

Says: Error Login failed could not load URL with POST

And yes, my username/password is correct. I can still use the browser to stream music
from XM's site.

Love this thing! My main reason for using widgets. I use it at work, much nicer than XM's online radio.

Thank You very much.

This widget is very cool. Can you let me input my list of favorite artists and then show me which stations are currently playing them?

Jason - Any idea why it won't go to channel 152? Can't remember if XM provides that one online or not. Thanks--really works well.

Used this widget for a year and it rocks! Unfortunately, for the past 2 weeks when I open the widget it shows the 'Opening Media' and 'Ready' messages at the bottom of the tuner screen BUT the play button is non-functional. I can change channels and all other functions but nothing happens when I press the play button. I am on Windows Vista. I have reinstalled it many times thinking that would help. Any suggestions or advice? I am lost without Hear Music (XM 75).

Rick

Used this widget for a year and it rocks! Unfortunately, for the past 2 weeks when I open the widget it shows the 'Opening Media' and 'Ready' messages at the bottom of the tuner screen BUT the play button is non-functional. I can change channels and all other functions but nothing happens when I press the play button. I am on Windows Vista. I have reinstalled it many times thinking that would help. Any suggestions or advice? I am lost without Hear Music (XM 75).

Rick

Great Widget - the best XM player out there. If I had a wish I would wish for the ability to change the skin - and minimize/resize.

XM Tuner works great and sounds better with DFX which was uninspected. I still can't figure out how to set preset buttons all i get is error msg.

My favorite widget

Excellent widget - does not time out - use it all the time. Not as big as Windows Media or the XM via a browser. Better than my SkyFi that does not include album titles.

Nice job!!!

I would like to request a parental control option. My 10 year old daughter uses this widget and I would like to be able to restrict certain channels via password.

Regards,

Paul Brill.

I really enjoy this widget, it works great. I am giving three stars, just until it is updated to resize. The station text is almost too tiny to read, that's why I would like to see a resize feature.

Thank you for the great tuner, it is much better than having the XM tuner on the screen!

Some of these comments are just stupid... the radio functions all work exactly like an actual XM radio tuner does! This thing works perfectly... if theres anything that could be added (probably impossible AND illegal) would be to record songs by way of exporting to mp3 format. Otherwise this the best widget ive seen! I love it, thanks for your efforts!

One more comment now that I've been using XM Tuner for a few weeks. It would be nice to add a button that can display a list of the previous 5-10 songs/artists.

Works very well. I would like to see more skins, like most folks here. I would especially like to see a scalable rectangular skin. The preset system is also a bit weird. However, it, finds and holds channels perfectly for me, which is the main point. God work.. Look forward to the next version.

This widget works great for me. But I'm also looking for something simpler.

My XM tuner is in the living room with speakers wired into my office. So most of the day I'm listening to the actual satellite broadcast, but I have to run into the living room to see the artist/song name.

Any chance of modifying this widget so that it doesn't stream constantly, but still shows the current song/artist? I don't care if it's real time - updating every 30 seconds or so would be fine.

For now I'm just letting it stream on the low bandwidth setting and the mute button is pressed. That works OK, but it's not very elegant.

Thanks for the great widget.

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To contact the author, please use the following address.
jason { Change this to "@" } williamstx { Change this to "." } com

And another note... I see most of the requests are for better skins. My graphic design skills are horrible (I spent 90% of the development time just trying to come up with the skin that you see now), but I would be glad to come up with a way of sharing the same code across different skins if someone else out there could contribute the skins. I know there's some O&A fans out there with exceptional photoshop skills :)

Also, 1.4 has been uploaded, but will likely not show up until next week, so go to the sourceforge page below. I never could reproduce the problems encountered with 1.3, so I just applied the changes that were instructed in various postings on this page and re-uploaded.

I've gotten everything set up over at sourceforge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmtunerwidget/

If you are having troubles, go download it from there instead, if it still doesn't work, submit a support request.

If you are interested in contributing or supporting this widget, please contact me through the sourceforge page and I will gladly add you as a developer so that you will be able to update the code and submit new releases. Hopefully this widget will become a community effort, but if no one is interested in contributing then this project will likely die because I rarely use the widget myself anymore and I just don't have the time to support it.

I too had used this for months, then starting yesterday was getting "Unable to Load Successfully". I love this widget and was stumped. I dl'd it again and replaced the origial and now works fine.

One thing, if any more updates are being worked on this is a lil small. Resizable and other Skins would be sick. Maybe the new Samsung Helix skin??? Either way I still love it an use it all the time.

NG baby - tried krebbs solution; no go - they need to put a warning on this pos.

I suspect users getting the "missing missing" problem are very likely falling victim to the latest version of the Widget engine which has problems with widgets in ZIP format. I had the same problem until I started using the newer "flat" archive format. See the forums and the workshop (above).

Nevermind. Worked with krebs fix.

Same as below. "It gives an error message "Unable to load itself successfully" along with a transparent picture of "Missing Missing"". Doesn't run.

Super Widget. It worked w/o a hitch for several months, but now it gives an error meesage "Unable to load itself successfully" along with a transparent picture of "Missing Missing"
I have PC cilin turned off but to no avail. I have deleted and reinstalled several times.
Thought or ideas ? Patrick

thanks seawolf, jason, chimpy, et al.... if i didn't thank you but you should be thanked < thank you>

I'm using the modified/fixed version and it works fine, but after a little bit (don't know how long) it begins to chug my CPU and stops responding. Anyone else having problems like these? Anyone know a solution?

Thanks,
potsked

P.S. Kudos to Jason and friends for making the only app on the internet which plays XM without it booting you off after 45 min.

Thanks for the fine work. Keep it up.

Thanks Seawolf,
What you said worked perfectly. Anyone wanting to download it the right way should follow seawolfs method.

Jason:

I was the one who wrote earlier about resizing and controlling the widget via IR remote. You might be interested in the fact that I've now modified the code heavily to a full-screen 10-foot-friendly MCE-lookalike that I can control from my sofa with my programmable remote...

If you're interested in what I've done and some feedback on what I'm trying to do with it as best as I can hack (I'm certainly NO programmer), let me know.

Steve

People that are having problems with changing the extension are running into Windows mediocre handling of file extensions and the difficulty involved in changing an extension once you set it to .zip I have modified the file, tested it to make sure it works again, and then zipped the widget file back up to put it on my server until the sourceforge project is up and running. For those that are having problems changing the file extension, you can get the file at http://www.webappeal.com/seawolf/XM_Tuner.zip
Unzip the file into your Widget directory and then it should work properly.

Since the widget gallery doesn't seem to have any way to add other developers to a widget, I have submitted a request to host this project at Sourceforge.net. This will allow me to add other developers (Chimpy and Mordicus Egg?) who are interested in helping to support it or even adding new features. Best of all, the latest version will always be available from the alternate site without requiring me to upload it to the gallery and then wait several days for it to get reviewed. If it gets approved, I will post the link here and it can truly be an open source community effort.

Perfect widget. This has ALWAYS worked, except when something that is NOT CONTROLABLE (XM Modifying something) happens, this widget has worked for all 9 machines I have this installed on. For the people that cannot get this to work, there are numerous posts here that state how to get it to work, the best thing you can do is to pack up your PC and send it back, because you are to damn brain dead to own a PC anyway.

Perfect widget. This has ALWAYS worked, except when something that is NOT CONTROLABLE (XM Modifying something) happens, this widget has worked for all 9 machines I have this installed on. For the people that cannot get this to work, there are numerous posts here that state how to get it to work, the best thing you can do is to pack up your PC and send it back, because you are to damn brain dead to own a PC anyway.

Perfect widget. This has ALWAYS worked, except when something that is NOT CONTROLABLE (XM Modifying something) happens, this widget has worked for all 9 machines I have this installed on. For the people that cannot get this to work, there are numerous posts here that state how to get it to work, the best thing you can do is to pack up your PC and send it back, because you are to damn brain dead to own a PC anyway.

Screw this thing, piece of crap widget.

Thanks, mgkrebbs!!!! That worked!

Thanks, mgkrebbs!!!! That worked!

mgkrebbs I saw your post to Dove I did what you said and it now works again. Excellent and Thanks.

I didnt download the widget I just used the one already in my widget folder because it is v1.3. I Changed XM_Tuner.widget to XM_Tuner.zip. I Opened the file XM_Tuner.zip. I then Delete the .kon file with the "~" after the filename(it's dated 2/2006). I Closed the XM_Tuner.zip file and changed the file back to XM_Tuner.widget and then ran it!

mgkrebbs I saw your post to Dove I did what you said and it now works again. Excellent and Thanks.

I didnt download the widget I just used the one already in my widget folder because it is v1.3. I Changed XM_Tuner.widget to XM_Tuner.zip. I Opened the file XM_Tuner.zip. I then Delete the .kon file with the "~" after the filename(it's dated 2/2006). I Closed the XM_Tuner.zip file and changed the file back to XM_Tuner.widget and then ran it!

Urgent I need my XM radio....
My player was working great, now Im getting an error: XM_Turner was unable to load itself successfully.

How do I fix this please
Any ideas? Thanks!

Maybe someone knows of another xm radio widget for Windows.

Dove - Download v1.3. Change XM_Tuner.widget file to XM_Tuner.zip . Open the file XM_Tuner.zip. Delete the .kon file with the "~" after the filename. (it's dated 2/2006). Be sure NOT to delete the .kon file from 7/2006. Close the .zip and change the file extension back to .widget and run it! This worked for me but was not my idea. Chimpy published a fix for v1.2 and when Jason integrated it into v1.3, another error was created that was resolved by Mordicus Egg. I just wanted to sum it all up.

Hi... My player was working great, now getting error: XM_Turner[1] was unable to load itself successfully. Any ideas? Thanks!

Hi... My player was working great, now getting error: XM_Turner[1] was unable to load itself successfully. Any ideas? Thanks!

Good Fucking job! Now it does even work. I'm done with this thing, the entire freaking radio service went down the drain I guess its only fitting that the widget follows the same path. hate this post or not you have to agree that update fixed nothing. You can come up with all youre silly ass miracle fixes on your own and I realize the yahoo widget engine is free but yahoo needs to have some kind of quality control on the widgets loaded on their server. I'll give this a one star despite the fact this used to be a great little toy.

Good Fucking job! Now it does even work. I'm done with this thing, the entire freaking radio service went down the drain I guess its only fitting that the widget follows the same path. hate this post or not you have to agree that update fixed nothing. You can come up with all youre silly ass miracle fixes on your own and I realize the yahoo widget engine is free but yahoo needs to have some kind of quality control on the widgets loaded on their server. I'll give this a one star despite the fact this used to be a great little toy.

Good Fucking job! Now it does even work. I'm done with this thing, the entire freaking radio service went down the drain I guess its only fitting that the widget follows the same path. hate this post or not you have to agree that update fixed nothing. You can come up with all youre silly ass miracle fixes on your own and I realize the yahoo widget engine is free but yahoo needs to have some kind of quality control on the widgets loaded on their server. I'll give this a one star despite the fact this used to be a great little toy.

*glomps everyone who helped* Thank you SO MUCH. Now I don't have to use the evil Windows Media Player anymore!

Love your work, this is my favorite widget! Great job

"Unable to load itself"

I'm having problems running this! Everytime i try to run it, it says "Missing Missing" in an image.

Jason:

I love this widget; I'm remote-controlling it on my family room HTPC! I must, though, echo an earlier sentiment: can you possibly update this so that the user can resize it...? It's terribly small for an HTPC's resolution... otherwise... FANTASTIC work! Thanks much! - Steve

You guys friggin rule. I've had this widget for a few weeks then all the sudden it stopped working. Thanks to all of you who posted the fixes. The XM tuner is by far the best widget out there. Thanks again. Bill

It worked for me after applying Mordicus Egg's fix:

I got it working! Do the .zip extension change that chimpy talked about, but do not alter the file this time. Delete the .kon file with the "~" after the filename. (it's dated 2/2006). Be sure NOT to delete the .kon file from 7/2006. Close the .zip and change the file extension back to .widget and run it!

It worked for me after applying Mordicus Egg's fix:

I got it working! Do the .zip extension change that chimpy talked about, but do not alter the file this time. Delete the .kon file with the "~" after the filename. (it's dated 2/2006). Be sure NOT to delete the .kon file from 7/2006. Close the .zip and change the file extension back to .widget and run it!

Here is my email so if someone could contact me via email with some step by step directions....would greatly appreciate it.

thanks

yosemitegirlie@yahoo.com

I am trying to follow Chimpy directions. However when I went in looked at the file it was already a .jsp. I did not have to change it. The widget still does not work.
Any ideas....help.........

It seems there are diffrent fixes for the same prob. Anyway I did it through a modified "Chimpy" way when i saved the widget file, changed it to zip file. Then found the .js code then changed that to .jsp saved that, then opened the new file, And now i'am cooking with gas again. By the way, I now have a picture of Chimpy that looks similar to Washington crossing the Delaware with Chimpy in th front of the boat pointing the rest of us in the right direction. Enjoy and have fun....open source rocks

Good work Mordicus...works like a charm....

Works like a charm! Thanks for figuring this all out Mordicus Egg, Chimpy and of course Jason.

I got it working! Do the .zip extension change that chimpy talked about, but do not alter the file this time. Delete the .kon file with the "~" after the filename. (it's dated 2/2006). Be sure NOT to delete the .kon file from 7/2006. Close the .zip and change the file extension back to .widget and run it!

I got it working! Do the .zip extension change that chimpy talked about, but do not alter the file this time. Delete the .kon file with the "~" after the filename. (it's dated 2/2006). Be sure NOT to delete the .kon file from 7/2006. Close the .zip and change the file extension back to .widget and run it!

Still receiving an error. Displays a "Missing" graphic. I'm sure this will be an easy fix as well. Keep up the good work Jason!

Did XM change the code again? I downloaded the newer version; I still cannot get the player to load. Any thoughts, Jason? The earlier versions worked great. I can't wait to have the fix! Keep up the good work, Jason!

I still have the same issue as 1.2

Same issue in 1.3 as 1.2. The code is fixed along the same lines as what Chimpy did though.

Is it me or does 1.3 have the same issue?

Is it me or does 1.3 have the same issue?

Excellent work Chimpy! This is my favorite widget. Cheers Jason! Truly an awesome widget.

For all you goons out there... learn to follow a couple of easy directions.

Add me to the "Chimpy's solution fixed it for me" category. Thanks, Chimpy!

If others are having trouble, what I basically had to do is go into the ZIP file (the renamed XM_Tuner.widget), delete the old XMtuner.js and add the modified XMtuner.js in the exact same subdirectory. After renaming the tuner file to XM_Tuner.widget, it worked great.

Just tried Chimpy's solution and it worked perfectly. Assuming you can follow a few simple steps, you'll have no trouble.

Then again, if you're like Sara, Joe, Kim, big big, rico, mel and others who probably tax their mental faculties banging sticks on rocks, you might have to wait until someone presses the 'enter' key for you.

Hey Sara (and the rest of you freeloading jerkoffs) -

Why don't you all pony up a few bucks to help Jason with development costs? No takers? Hmmm. Oooh! You could use one of the myriad OTHER widgets for XM! Yeah! That'll show ol' Jason a thing or two! What? Not too many choices out there?

As for the rest of you mongoloids of the "click it once and it should do it all" mindset ... do you EVER think for yourselves? Do you stare blankly and get all annoyed at everything else that might require a little thought? God, the retards who pass for "computer literate" nowadays, astound me.

Keep up the good work, Jason ... and thanks for taking the time to develop the widget!

Just found out today that this widget is broken due to changes in XM's online player. I just uploaded version 1.3, so once it gets through the system it should fix the problem. Sorry I didn't notice this sooner, but I don't even use the widget anymore ever since my workplace throttled streaming media and I got a MyFi. I need to figure out how to add other developers to this project if that's even possible. XM can change their site at any time and totally break this widget and I might not know for weeks or months. On top of that, some of you have some really good ideas for features that could easily be implemented by some of the other widget developers who are actively using this widget.

Is it possible that jason has no idea this is going on? i feel bad for the guy. Hes taking a beating, and may not even be around to know it. Give the guy some credit. The widget is great. People who are bad mouthing the widget, download it, fix it. YES its not a perfect world, but apparently jason isnt even around to defend himself, and maybe to even know its broken. However i agree... Jason needs to post the fix himself so it works when it downloads.

this sucks

doesnot work

well it doesnt work

no work

fix this

this sucks

does not work.

hell I just use windows media player 11....Works like a champ

suck, the download doesnt work you have to do a bunch of Bs to get of to work

doesnt work

fix this stupid thing!!
fix the problem and put out an update already

Chimpy's "change to .zip file" fix worked fine for me. Thanks for the fix! :-)

"And Jerry, you owe Jason an appology.! :)"

As soon as he fixes it, so people don't have to edit it for him, I will. Until then, it STILL doesn't work as is. Last update says February...

Yeah! Let's here it for an OSX version!

Thanks all. I appreciate your kind words, but I must say my reason for fixing it was pretty selfish since it was killing me that it wasn't working. Jason's widget rocks.

Dan- Thanks for the added instructions to make it easier for those who were having issues. I probably should have been a bit more less complicated in my instructions.
Also, I didn't see a way to update the widget without being the original author, otherwise I would have uploaded the fixed version.

Jeremy - I've never edited or created a widget before. I used Ethereal to capture a XM web browser login session to determine the files that it was using and then just compared that with the code that Jason developed to identify the discrepancy. XM Fan should get some credit for having the quick eyes to capture the error message that helped identify the error.

I've the same problem as DClarke977. Same message. It used to work fine, now it doesn't.

Dan, thank you so very much for those extra instructions. I am back in business!!! (I was getting depressed having to go back to the XM provided player.)

Thanks Dan,

I must have been having a brain fart when I was reading that. Anyways, I got it to work.

Thanks,

ZooKeep123

ZooKeep123,
What I did was the following

1)Changed extension to zip
2)Extract files, make sure you extract with directories so the files get put in proper directories
3)Edit files are noted (far down this list) XMtuner.jsf
4)Used winzip to rezip entire directory structure
5)Renamed files extension back to widget

On a side note, do they allow a non-owner of the widget to send updates for something a minor as this update. Do not get me wrong, it is major update for usage just a minor code change.

I'm delighted with Chimpy's fix. It WORKS. Initially, it wasn't working for me, but I was persistent as I was doing some things wrong. I had to unzip all the files, extract them . . . Then then appeared in a separate folder on the desktop and I made the changes. Follow Chimpy's directions very carefully. How strange, all that seemed necessary was one letter to be changed. Where did it get unchanged?

BTW.. i did the fix suggested below and it did not resolve my issue.

I have been using the XM Tuner for a while then all of a sudden I get the error "XM Tuner can not load itself successfully". Any one else experience this error? Anyone have any clue how to fix it? The XM tuner just will not load any more. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the widget with no luck as well as uninstalling and reinstalling the Widget engine.

OOoohhhhh Jason.... PLEASE post this fix! Chimpys fix IS the answer, and it works perfectly. I and many others have made it work just fine. I actually feel bad for those (please take no offense) who cannot figure out how to fix it. For their sake, post this fix so they can just download a new version. Alot of people are not computer literate enough to figure that out. Thanks on behalf of them!

I am having problems making the widget work. it is not letting me log in.

Dan/or anyone. I'm having the same problem with adding the file back to the zip. I'm getting two, deleting one and it isn't working. I don't understand what you mean by having to "rezip" it. Could someone explain this.

Thanks,

ZK

Dan/or anyone. I'm having the same problem with adding the file back to the zip. I'm getting two, deleting one and it isn't working. I don't understand what you mean by having to "rezip" it. Could someone explain this.

Thanks,

ZK

I tried Chimp's fixed & did everything as he said and I still get the error.

Still not working with no download. Not a zip file so confused, help!

OMG .. you rock!!! some one fix this and re uplod it!!!!!! I nominate chimp since he seems to know wtf is going on......

Thanks, Chimpy! It's great to get this widget working again. This reminds me of the contention between the IM formats and Trillian. Why can't we all get along???

Your fix worked perfectly. I'm listening now and couldn't be happier!

Chimpy,

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your instructions below worked great…simple, easy, and it fixed the problem! What a relief to have this Widget working on my computer again!

Chimpy, great work figuring out the fix. The only change to it I would suggest is to extract the file to the same directory that is listed in the zip file.

I am getting the error message "will not load successfully" any suggestions?

My XM widget was working fine until about a week ago, now I have "it will not load successfully" when I open it up. I have downloaded the latest version. Is there a trick to getting this to work again? Thanks

My XM widget was working fine until about a week ago, now I have "it will not load successfully" when I open it up. I have downloaded the latest version. Is there a trick to getting this to work again? Thanks

That fix rocks. Anyone know though why it only happened on one of the machines I had this installed on?? I have 3 others that still work fine and I originally installed them all at the around the same time...

Never mind - needed to scrool down further. Jason, when you get to this fix, to add other features (like the auto search updates?) would be great!

Never mind - needed to scrool down further. Jason, when you get to this fix, to add other features (like the auto search updates?) would be great!

I had to extract it and change it and then rezip it in order to work. I was changing it to a zip and then opening it and trying to change it while it was still zipped. It created 2 files but I deleted the old one but it wouldn't work. I guess I couldn't see the answer in front of my face until Dan posted and made me realize what I was doing wrong.

Nice fix, Chimpy. Thanks for introducing us all to the world of widget development! Just out of curiosity, how did you know what the new URL was? Can you get that info from the XM player somehow?

My compliments also go to Jason who must have spent some time trying to figure out all those XM URLs to get this thing to work in the first place.

jeremy

Nice fix, Chimpy. Thanks for introducing us all to the world of widget development! Just out of curiosity, how did you know what the new URL was? Can you get that info from the XM player somehow?

My compliments also go to Jason who must have spent some time trying to figure out all those XM URLs to get this thing to work in the first place.

jeremy

Great. My only problem with the fix is that I just tried to add the file back to the zip file. After that both files existed. I had to rezip the entire thing to get it properly done. I am giving a 3 stars, but will give 4 once an update is complete.

Jason,
Has an update been submited yet. I know for several other widgets it took long time to get thru their process.

Li'l Jimmy, is your posting screen name the XM 202 refference that i think it is?

Jerry, pay attention. This is the greatest widget ever. Someone said, "the only reason to have widget engine installed". and i agree. We had a glitch because XM changed a file name by one letter. Perfect Fix Chimpy. Thanks so much. I can see how this might cause problems though, so Jason you might want to just do it yourself and post an update. Think of it as a reson to change it from 1.2 to 1.3. Anyway. Great Feedback people. Thanks for the fix Chimpy. And Jerry, you owe Jason an appology.! :) All in good fun people, Thanks again!

Chimpy's fix works perfectly. Thank you, so much!!!!!!

Never mind - needed to scrool down further. Jason, when you get to this fix, to add other features (like the auto search updates?) would be great!

Where's this config.js file or the reference to it?

how does one change this file? I searched for the file, but did not find it, so I assume it is a part of the actual widget...help?

Thanks Chimpy!

Your fix worked like a champ.

Shurato

Chimpy you are the man.

Jerry can you see that all of the ratings come either before the issue (which just happened a day or two ago and AFTER Chimpy put up the fix?

bigdog--are you sure that you updated the correct file? I edited one that I thought was correct and it didn't work but when I went back and edited the correct file it works now.

just tried the mod and it don't work for me.

Chimpy,

Thank you, thank you, thank you! That was simple and effective. Jason, it's a great Widget; I hope that XM doesn't do anything silly that disables it :)

Chimpy's instruction below worked great. Simple, easy, and fixes the problem! Thanks Chimpy!

Not sure why such a high rating when so many people say the same thing, it doesn't work...

Fix it & it'd deserve a good rating.

Jason---
It appears that XM changed the name of their configuration file from config.js to config.jsp. As a result, this is keeping the widget from being able to load properly. Could you please post an update for everyone since in my opinion this is the one widget that makes having the Yahoo! Widget Engine installed. Thanks for creating the most useful widget I have found.

Jason---
It appears that XM changed the name of their configuration file from config.js to config.jsp. As a result, this is keeping the widget from being able to load properly. Could you please post an update for everyone since in my opinion this is the one widget that makes having the Yahoo! Widget Engine installed. Thanks for creating the most useful widget I have found.

Jason---
It appears that XM changed the name of their configuration file from config.js to config.jsp. As a result, this is keeping the widget from being able to load properly. Could you please post an update for everyone since in my opinion this is the one widget that makes having the Yahoo! Widget Engine installed. Thanks for creating the most useful widget I have found.

This should make it work again. It did for me anyway.

-Change filename of the widget from XM_Tuner.widget to XM_Tuner.zip
-Open the .zip file
-Open the XM Tuner.widget folder
-Open the Contents folder
-Copy the XMTuner.js file to your desktop
-Right click on the XMtuner.jsf file that you just copied and Open With a text editor such as Notepad
-Find the line that states:
configURL.location = "http://player.xmradio.com/player/_js/config.js";

-Modify the line by changing the .js to .jsp. The new line should read:
configURL.location = "http://player.xmradio.com/player/_js/config.jsp";

-Copy the XMTuner.js file that you just modfied back into the contents folder of the original zip file.
-Change the name of the file back to XM_Tuner.widget and give it a try.

I hope this works as well for you as it did for me. Good luck

I love this widget, but a couple of days ago, it started erroring out on launch and saying that XM Tuner could not successfully load itself. Does anyone know why? I have reinstalled the widget and the widget engine. All other widgets are working without issue. There have been no changes to my pc.

Everyone can go here to get a great product for listeneing to XM. The studio edition is awesome. http://xamp.imomo.net/

Please Update This Widget!

I can't get the widget to load either, recieving a "XM_Tuner was unable to load itself successfully" error on 3 different computers that I use.

Although I'm a XM user with a password... this widget wouldn't load for me :(

omg .. please fix this problem .... ive ben using xamp desktop in the meantime

same problem and same sentiments about how much I love this widget---please figure out a fix!

I'm getting the same error as below - It looks like just before the Yahoo! error message popups up saying "XM_Tuner was unable to load itself successfully", the tuner itself shows an error message REALLY quick that says, (I think) "ERROR: Failed to retrieve configuration" down in the status area of the tuner window. Maybe this will help some? Like the people below have stated, this widget is the best way to listen to XM on a computer!

Add me to the growing list of dissapointees over the breakdown of this widget. There is simply no comparison between this and the XM streaming window. Please, if this is something that you can fix Jason I implore you to do so as soon as you can. If this is a different problem then this sucks.

I get the same error just after it logs in... I think it is a COM issue.

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Add me to the list of folks who cannot load this widget. This is my favorite widget. I hope it can be fixed soon.

Rob

I'm getting the same error as below - It looks like just before the Yahoo! error message popups up saying "XM_Tuner was unable to load itself successfully", the tuner itself shows an error message REALLY quick that says, (I think) "ERROR: Failed to retrieve configuration" down in the status area of the tuner window. Maybe this will help some? Like the people below have stated, this widget is the best way to listen to XM on a computer!

yup, same problem. must have been a windows update that did it, because it happened at home, then at work, then on my laptop. so it must have something to do with a windows update... any solution!? i LOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEEEE this widget!

I'm also getting the "XM_Tuner was unable to load itself successfully." message. I'm on ver. 3.1 of the engine and using ver. 1.2 of the widget.

I'm also getting the "XM_Tuner was unable to load itself successfully." message. I'm on ver. 3.1 of the engine and using ver. 1.2 of the widget.

I'm getting the "XM_Tuner was unable to load itself successfully." message. I'm on ver. 3.1 of the engine and using ver. 1.2 of the widget.

I'm having the same issue with the widget as a few others. It starts to connect then displays "Logged In" on the Widget, but a pop up window displays the message "XM_tuner was unable to load itself successfully". Occassionally I can get it to connect, but it displays an error on the Widget screen about an URL incompatibility. I can't get it to duplicate, so that I can pass on the exact phrase to you, though. This morning was the first time that I had this issue. I hope XM isn't blocking the Widget!

This is my favorite Widget, and the only reason I subscribe to the Widget concept from Yahoo at all. I hope that there is a patch available, because I will go nuts at work each day without it :) And, if there isn't a patch, if XM is blocking the Widget from gaining access, then I just want to say thank you to Jason Williams for providing a Widget that has brought so much happiness to my work day for as long as it was able to!

I'm having the same issue with the widget as shurato. It starts to connect then displays "logged in" and the puts the message up "XM_tuner was unable to load itself successfully."

I changed my login info and you cant on this, thanks to the guy who posted the xampd, it wors great!

i've just started to have problems with this widget. my system was updated by MS for the recent security patches and now the XM tuner gives the XM_tuner was unable to load itself successfully.
does the widget need a rebuild? I removed it and redownloaded it and I get the same error.
I love this widget... any ideas on what to do next?

Still use this alot. A more advanced XM widget is this, and you can run it in your taskbar

http://xampd.imomo.net/

It's a great Widget this one realy work very well, just i add customatization of colors and mask ! but is realy good!

What would be nice would be some different skins, able to resize this widget and a what's on feature. I really do love this widget.

Thank You!

I'm running Widget engine 3.1.2 (build 100) and XM Tuner 1.2 on XP Pro SP1.

No Problems !

You can listen to your xm radio from xmradio.com and then click on listen at the top and just log in. If you can't get this to work. Its an alternative because thats what I did before this widget came out.

Can't get it to work anymore.
I tried to install the 3.0 version of the engine from file hippo as a previous poster suggested, but since the file just downloads the install files from the net it always installs version 3.1.2.
This was my main way to enjoy my XM subscription, hopefully the author can iron out the issues, or XM can release an official widget.
Prior to the engine updates from 3.0 it ran flawlessly.

I got the unable to load widget with 3.1.x I downgraded to 3.0 from file hippo and it works great.

This ROCKS! Thank you! So much faster/easier than logging in the lonnnnnnnnng way! Just wish it was a wee bit bigger!

Starting a few days ago the widget can no longer play channels 21 or 22. I think this coincided with a channel line-up change at XM. I don’t know if any of the 150+ other stations are having problems. All the others I listen to are still working. Other than this recent hiccup, this is my most used widget. I love it.

I get a message "The widget can't load itself" I have deleted and re-downloaded. No change!

Ahh. I've got it! The reason that it didn't play on the laptop is that the WMP was the one that came originally with XP. Once I d/l'd the current one, it worked like a charm. I still don't know the difference between the "B" and the "A" by the strength bars in the display though.
Re. Sosha's question: They channel lineup doesn't change until 4/17, which would be today. I'm sure if you try it now it will.

UPDATE FROM LAST FEEDBACK: seem I need to download it each time I use it eith the updated Widget Engine. The creator may want to take a look at this, and take a look at this issue. It's still a great little tool!

The new channels XM has released with not play. If you tune to Big Tracks (49) to plays Sunny (24). It will display the channel name and channel number correctly, but the song metadata is from Sunny (24). Any ideas?

Changed my login for XM and now I can't get XM Tuner to load. Have deleted the widget and re-downloaded to no avail. I'm sure there's a file somewhere that needs to be deleted but I can't find it. Help. Thanks

Stopped working with the Yahoo Widget upgrade, but I just had to download it again. Work great again!

Fantastic Widget, however it seems to have broken with the 3.1 version of the Widget Engine.

Awesome.
My favourite widget so far! Much better than XM's home page, I use this thing all day, every day at work.
You should contact someone at XM about them sponsoring you to develop this for them!
Let me know if you want a contact at XM, some of my friends work there.
dino
dino@altruistmedia.com

Love this widget, find it very useful, would love to see the new channels, for one, and secondly, would love to see a log of songs I have listened to.

Hope an update for this great widget is in the works for the xm line up additions on April 17th. Love this widget, anyone found differant colored skins? Just an idea.

Hope an update for this great widget is in the works for the xm line up additions on April 17th. Love this widget, anyone found differant colored skins? Just an idea.

Hope an update for this great widget is in the works for the xm line up additions on April 17th. Love this widget, anyone found differant colored skins? Just an idea.

To paraphrase: "Best Widget Ever," " This goes to eleven," other than it "sticking sometimes" works just fine. And I cannot even think of life with out this Widget... However...I do have the auto start up enabled but it doesnt.... oh well it's still pretty freaking cool will be looking for v2.something soon....

Oops, I had it backwards. The A doesn't have the bars and no sound, the B does. Antennae vs. Broadband??

Well, since I've not gotten an idea why this thing isn't working on the laptop, let's try a different tact. What is the meaning of the Capitol letter A in the lower right part of the screen, next to the signal bars. On my desktop it's an A with Signal bars and on my laptop it's a B with no signal bars. Anyone?

Dan, I tried to leave it on for a long time, to no avail. I think there's a key system component that the widget uses to pipeline the sound and it's missing. I have Realplayer as well as Windows media player working fine. If anyone knows how it translates the feed to sound, please let me know.

Forgot my rating...

Dogshrink,
I had the same problem today. I let it sit on retrieving channel stream for a few minutes. It eventually started for me. Later I did the same for xm online and had similiar problem, so my bet its on xm's side.

It continues to work great on my desktop but I just tried to put it on my laptop. It logs on, I see the artists and titles changing but no sound.
Says "retrieving channel stream" and the Antenna just has a capital A. Any idea how I can get out of this. It's my great hope for putting XM in my living room.

It continues to work great on my desktop but I just tried to put it on my laptop. It logs on, I see the artists and titles changing but no sound.
Says "retrieving channel stream" and the Antenna just has a capital A. Any idea how I can get out of this. It's my great hope for putting XM in my living room.

This Widget remains excellent. Your commitment to fixing the (minor) issues is also great. When I downloaded the newest version, I noticed the filesize was about twice what the old one was, which I thought was kind of weird... so I peeked inside the package, and I noticed that you seem to have left your SVN files in the package! I also noticed that all of the PNG images seemed to be rather large files, considering how few pixels they were. Well, I decided to run PNGGauntlet (a free PNG shrinker) on all the files and remove the Subversion directory, and a few minutes later, I had a Widget file that was about 2% of the size of the posted version (76 KB vs. 3.5 MB)! If you would like this new, MUCH smaller file to post, let me know. Or you can just run those steps yourself.

to install download the widget engine (click downloads at the top) and then download all the widgets you want, nice and easy

WOW! This is great, and yet I cannot use it--An OSX version on the way???

Is it possible to add more color customization to an already AWSOME Widget.
Change face plate colors?
have face plate cycle through colors randomly
ect...ect...
All cosmetic changes. Functionality is already superb!

how do you install the widget is there any site or page with directions?

Great, XM should really looki into something similiar. There online one is kind of a pain, having to go to the site, sign in, then the player taking up the whole page. I'm a lil behind on the whole widget thing, and had been thinking how nice something like this would be. THANXS!!!!!

this widget worked well until i had to restart my laptop.now all i get is xm tuner is unavail to load up.any suggestions on what to do ??

Works great. Only one nit. When in channel mode (showing each channel), the up arrow scrolls the list upward (lower number channels), but when listening to a channel, the up arrow scrolls ?up? (higher number channels). Is there a way to make the behavior consistant, so that a given arrow gives lower numbered channels reguardless of mode?

Thanks,

works great on my laptop. on my PC, it connects, I get channel listings, but it never streams.

I click on a channel, it goes "connecting...opening media...connecting...opening media...connecting...opening media" then stops and displays "ready".

Any chance of getting help?

Thanks for the fix, now I can use this all the time! :-)

Also any chance on programming a "scan" feature. automatic channel scanning like on your average car radio. i use the scan all the time in the car and would love to use it on this too!

Oh... but yeah. i would like some resizeability too!

BEST WIDGET EVER! Thanks for the channel changeing fix. its grrrrrreat now!

Excellent widget.
Only request for a future realease would be some ability to resize the widget. It's ok on my low res workstaiton (1024x768) but on my hi res laptop (1600x1200), it's incredibly tiny.

Don't know if that's possible, but just a request.

Thank you for making it!

I use this widget at work and at home. I love it! This is such a better alternative to the XM browser option. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this.

An update for the channel freeze problem should be ready tomorrow. This problem unfortunately takes forever to fix, as I have to make change, reload it, come back after several hours, test it out and repeat.

Any eta on the update that fixes the channel changing problem? This is my most prized widget, its the only one that gets to stay on top of all other windows. Good work. Much better than the browesr based alternative.

When might we expect to see some more updates? my widget still freezes after an hour so I cannot change the channel...I have seen quite a few nifty updates to the sirrius player...would like to see a lot of those options...

Love it...thanks. Far and away an easier way to access my XM Online.

This widget used to work. Restarted one day and was met with "XM Tuner was unable to load itself successfully." Tried reinstalling to no avail. Still won't start...

I have found that if you leave it open for awhile (12+hours) in a stop position, the tuner will not reconnect. It is stays in a state of “Receiving XM Stream”. The only work around that I have found is to close the widget and restart it. Anyway, baring that little bug, it is the best widget and works perfectly!!! I use it everyday.

http://www.widgetgallery.com/view.php?widget=38478

I like the widget, but I have 1 semi-major problem. I find if I listen to 1 channel for more than 45 minutes to 1 hour, tand then try to change channels, the channel won't change. It'll say "retrieving stream", but never change. It still streams the channel I was origianlly listening to. I'd like sizing to be customizable by resolution. I run a 1280x1024 resolution, and have a little difficulty with the size of the buttons!

Otherwise, very functional, MUCH better than XM's own interface!!!!!!!!

When loading the widget, I get an error "XM Tuner unable to lad itself successfully" immediatly after loggin in. Any help?

version 1.1 it keeps saying 1.0

Great widget, I use it every day.

I notice that the artist and song title information doesn't change on the talk stations.

Anyone know where to download an OSX version of the Sirius widget? Please help the Mac folk.

Wonderful Widget, I truly love it.

My primary request has been relayed before, but another vote. Can we have another "re-login" button ?

On my laptop if I put it to sleep and wake back up the stream is dead. When I used to use the XMRO website it would say "bad cookie" and I would have to re-log in. In this widget's case we have to close the widget and reopen (a pain). Help !?!? Please ???

I love this widget!!! Here lately though all I can do is get the retrieving channel stream message no matter what happens. Anyone have a clue?

Fabulous!!! The only drawback is, I have a feeling I won't be using my XM boombox quite as often...but what the heck!

My most used widget now. Absolutely needed!!! I can't wait for another skin for this!!

NIce! Mac version please!

Thank you for this awesome widget! I love my XM!

Did the above download link get upgraded to 1.1? I just tried downloading it, and my version still says 1.0...

Did the above download link get upgraded to 1.1? I just tried downloading it, and my version still says 1.0...

Great Widget. Thanks for adding the extra message, however after listening to one station for about 30 minutes, the tuner sticks at that station. Attempts to change are met with the "receiving channel stream" message that never goes away. I have to restart the widget to change channels at that point.

tech support email me for the previous post. ghetomedc@yahoo.com

I need techsupport for this widget. I keep getting " unable to load itself automatically.

Another request for Mac XM version

The main reason I run Konfabulator. This widget is great! The XM website had always been a pain to use and keep on, but this widget has made enjoying my XM at work pain-free. My thanks!

Jason, If you don't plan on making a OSX/Dashboard version, do you mind if I use your code to do so. I'll give you credit!

Let me know. Thanks!

I believe that the widget doesn't account for your login being timed out of XM. (ie. if you stop the stream for awhile) The widget will just sit at the retrieving channel stream status. Stopping and starting does no good. You have to restart the widget to get it to log in again.

Otherwise very handy widget.

Another request for a Mac version.

No Sirius support? Why not? Please? Their interface probably sucks just as badly!

Hey dude,

Anyway we can change the quality from 64K to 128K? (High Quality).

Otherwise fantastic widget.

SM

Hey dude,

Anyway we can change the quality from 64K to 128K? (High Quality).

Otherwise fantastic widget.

SM

Any plans to have this widget for OS X. That would be awesome!!!!

Another request for a mac version.

Nic - Look 6 comments up.

Awesome widget! Thanks for the update!

Another vote for A Sirius version. Thanks. Great widget!

Great Widget!

Couple of requests. The ability to eliminate channels, while using the up and down arrow keys. And the ability to increase the size. Some of the screen info is simply too small for comfort.

Wow. What an amazingly slick, full-featured, excellent Widget! Having used a "real" XM tuner, everything functioned exactly as I would expect it to. This is so much better than the crappy website XM has! I would echo the desire to have resizability and/or alternate skins. I'd also like the ability to disable "auto-tuning" (switching to a station a few seconds after it's been browsed to). Overall, though, great job!

Another bump for a sirus tuner, extra bump if you can figure out how to get Howard on it (-;

Now this is what widgets are all about. Like everyone else the ability to resize would be great, thought I was needing tri-focal glasses.Also the ability to add some color would be good too..awesome!

This is a really cool widget. While being able to resize it a little bigger for larger resolution screens would be nice, I can happily live with it as-is. Now, we just need a Sirius version and my desktop will be complete.

Great widget. But please add 'resize' option. thanks!

Great widget. But please add 'resize' option. thanks!

Pros: Great simple player. Logs on quick.

Cons: Too small. Text small. No resize option.

Great widget! The only thing it's lacking is the ability to re-size and change font size. It's just to small to read on my monitor.

Awesome! Their web interface is nasty, and the fact that they decided to force it on everyone (along with the fee) when the opt-in method failed, is annoying. No one hour timeout? Can't beat it!

This is the widget I have been waiting for! Works great, lots of functionality. Thanks!

Works great! Awesome widget.

To set the presets, its just like in a car, push and hold the button till it says it is set.

To set the presets, its just like in a car, push and hold the button till it says it is set.

I started playing around with a Sirius version as a reason/excuse to learn javascripting. I didn't get too far when I had to sideline it. (Family stuff)

Chalk up another request for a Sirius version.

Add another request for a Sirius version.

This works great. However, I would like a version where the text is a little larger on the channel guide and on the radio controls.

MAN, I would LOVE to have this for osX.

really cool, but how do you set the presets?

A second request for a Sirius version as well.

Will there be a tuner available for Sirius too!

Thank you! This is the widget I've been waiting for. Works very well.