Hi Mary, Larry, Kristyn, Anne, and Others, Another program you can try is Radium, which is supposed to be Lion ready. I'm surprised, because they managed to put in an accessibility fix for VoiceOver to get to the status menu bar options in the latest version (2.8.1, released 15 July 2011), and you can also customize this to perform all the operations with keyboard shortcuts in the preferences menu. It will also handle subscriptions. It's a paid app in the Mac App Store (~$25), but you can download and try it from the MacUpdate site. This seems to work pretty well when I started it up using Trackpad commander to navigate. If I navigate to the Radium icon in the dock, and double tap on the Trackpad, a pop up window opens as though I had clicked on the icon in the status menu bar (which VoiceOver can't directly navigate to). Focus switches to the search window in this menu. You can type in a search term (e.g. "bbc radio 4") and then flick to navigate to the scroll area, and double tap to select a station or to mark it as a favorite. You can also flick down to volume controls and the play button. However, once you are in this menu, or if you start Radium (VoiceOver will say there are no windows) and bring up preferences (Command+Comma), you can set up a keyboard shortcut (default is Command+Shift+E if you check it under the Controls tab table) to start/stop radium and access this window. You can also change the default shortcut to another key sequence.
If you brought up the menu the way I did the first time (with TrackPad Commander -- but you don't need to keep using this), flicking right from the search text box for radio stations is the menu button that accesses preferences, importing stations from a URL, refreshing, history, equalizer, and a few other options. Most of these have keyboard shortcuts. On the preferences pane there are tabs for general, controls, and subscriptions. "Controls" lets you configure and activate keyboard shortcuts. In addition to player control shortcuts, you can like/unlike the current track, copy the current song or the current tune-in link to the clipboard, and check boxes to allow the use of Apple Multimedia keys instead, or to use the Apple Remote. This also looks to have some options for Last.fm (which I've only used through the iPhone app). I'll append the link to the MacUpdate page download and description for anyone who wants to try this: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30468/radium Quoted description from macupdate follows: <begin quote> Radium is an internet radio player that's designed from the ground up to be simple, intuitive, and lightweight. With its powerful search, thousands of supported stations (including Sirius/XM and DI.fm/Sky.fm Premium), and the ability to add your own streams, Radium will change the way you listen to internet radio. WHAT'S NEW Version 2.8.1: • Accessibility • Full support for Universal Access (VoiceOver, etc.) • Fixes • Fixes for upcoming Lion release • Station search speedups • Fixed computer sleep issue • Minor UI tweaks <end quote> HTH. Cheers, Esther On Aug 11, 2011, at 06:50, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi Lary, > Have you tried going to the radiotime.com website. Several apps, including > wunder and tunein, get their material from this site. In fact, now that I > tthink of it, I think the site might have been renamed to tunein.com. MIght > be wrong there. That site has some kind of player associated with it, and you > can search for stations. I don't know how accessible it is on a Mac. All I've > done there is search for individual stations on a pc some while back. then I > got my IPod apps and don't use the pc or the Mac for that purpose any longer. > > Mary > > Mary Otten > motte...@gmail.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
