Broadcasting from ghastly Paris, France,
TSF Jazz 89.9 is simply the best jazz station on earth! If you even remotely resemble a jazz aficionado, you’ll likely want to take a flamethrower to your local
smooth jazz station after listening to TSF for a while. Their programmer(s) still work from a “Top 40” of sorts, but TSF’s playlist is very diverse and you never know what will get thrown into the mix. I don’t know anywhere else you’ll find
Madeleine Peyroux backed up against
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.
Inspired by and morphed from Alexander Thomas’s
Radio Paradise widget, the TSF Jazz widget both displays current and recent tracks scraped from the TSF web site, and also plays their stream with QuickTime — no need to fumble around with URLs in iTunes.
My only worry is that if too many people use this widget, TSF’s bandwidth may be sufficiently impacted so as to degrade my own listening experience. :-)
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System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Broadband connection to the Internet
Good taste in music |
Known Issues
Screensavers will not automatically activate while QuickTime is playing. This widget uses QuickTime to play TSF’s steam. You can still manually invoke your screensaver by moving your mouse to the hot corner.
TSF’s playlist imformation is not always quite up-to-date. The widget will update eventually when new data becomes available.
Version History
| 1.0.5 |
02/07/2008 |
Updated URLs. Rolled back some ineffective changes. |
| 1.0.4 |
11/29/2007 |
Less crapping out … maybe. |
| 1.0.3 |
11/15/2007 |
More text cleaning. Extirpated vestigial code. Added comments. Included a slightly less ugly icon. Searched thesaurus for big words to include in version history note. |
| 1.0.2 |
11/11/2007 |
Reconfigured internal timers to better track the play state of QuickTime, and to address CPU racing that could occur if play and stop buttons were clicked in rapid succession. |
| 1.0.1 |
11/11/2007 |
Implemented asynchronous data requests to reduce playback hiccups. Added additional test to further clean text from TSF’s web site. |
| 1.0.0 |
11/10/2007 |
Initial release. |
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