Radio Tray 0.5 now with translation support
This is a quick post announcing version 0.5 of Radio Tray. As promised, it now has translation support 🙂 Not many languages supported yet, but slowly I hope it gets more languages added. After all, there’s not much to translate. Soon, I’ll post some information on how you can help translate Radio Tray to your language and thus help to improve the user experience for all Radio Tray users.
There’s also a lot of internal changes on how the files are organized. In part due to the translation support, but also to try to fix some bugs. I hope all of you can now use Radio Tray without problems.
Happy listening!
Radio Tray 
I want to try to translate program in to my native language Lithuanian 🙂
Thanks Vilmantas, I appreciate your help 🙂
I’ll soon post some information on how you can help.
Hi Carlos,
can i suggest two features?
The first one is simple. I would be useful to mute the radio, or it would be just a repetition of the turn off button?
The second one is something i saw on the new ipod nano. If you listen the radio with your ipod the program just record the radio and when you restart it, it just restart from the pause moment.
What do you think about it?
Thank you for this fantastic tool 😀
And in Ubuntu 10.04 then i try to start radio station program wrotes: You GStreamer instalation is missing a plu-gin or There is no codec present that can handle… (Ubuntu restricted extras installed).
Hey, i’ve found it just today. And i think that is a great thing in order to keep the things simple. I mean, i don’t want to launch audacious (or qmmp) to listen the radio. And even more, i’ve to keep the .pls files in order to pickup the radio that i what to listen.
Appart from that, is there a simple way to get the last.fm scrobbler working?. Would be nice to get the songs that i listen on the radio scrobbled in my lastfm account. I mean, the radio shows the name of the song that’s playing, well… lets use that to get it on last.fm.
Thanks
It started playing after some investigation, so it is no bug, but i found another problem Programs/Audio and Video/there is no icon of radio try only question mark in gray background (Ubuntu 10.04)
Hi there!
I just submitted the German translation for radiotray. However the translation support does not really work out for all languages.
Best example: “Are you sure you want to delete”
In English that would expand to “Are you sure you want to delete ?”
In German the word order would be slightly different:
“Sind Sie sicher, dass sie löschen wollen?”. This case however has not been thought about and is one of the most commonly made mistakes. Just use some kind of printf command and make the String “Are you sure you want to delete %s?” so the whole sentence can be translated.
The following strings would need adaption:
“Are you sure you want to delete”
“Playing”
“Connecting to”
It ate my placeholders…
It should say:
In English that would expand to “Are you sure you want to delete *station name*?”
In German the word order would be slightly different:
“Sind Sie sicher, dass sie *station name* löschen wollen?”
@Luca Thank you for your suggestions. I already received some suggestions about a “volume up/volume down”, so clearly sound control is something useful that I’m going to investigate 🙂
As for recording, I wasn’t planning it. It goes a little beyond what I was planning for Radio Tray. But I’ll think about it. I still have some other features that I want to implement first 😉
@Vilmantas Thanks for your report about Ubuntu 10.04. I’ll have to install Ubuntu 10.04 to see what’s happening.
@Tate Thanks. As for last.fm scrobbler it’s a good thing you remembered me of that. After some of the changes that happened at Last.fm some time ago I stopped using it and I completely forgot about it. I’ll investigate to see if it’s easy to add support for last.fm
@Felix Thank you very much for your contribution. You’re right about the placeholders, I’m going to fix that as soon as I can.
Sorry, maybe my comment is not related to this post on your blog, but … Today I’ve discovered radio tray, and I have to say: very nice idea! I always hated to run a big/slow resource hungry full featured player just for listening some online-radio while working. So it’s a good idea and implementation, thanks a lot! However what I miss a lot: the source of the online radio URLs. It’s not so nice to “hunt” for them … For this purpose I really like exaile’s “browser” on online radios, that is the only feature I’m missing from radio tray …
Love this little gem.
Thanks.
Maybe I can help translating the program in Dutch.
Let me know.
Very nice application.
It works perfect with most of my radio station but crashes on http://www.rockland.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Streams/rockland.m3u
Thanks for this great app. 😀
@LGB Well, having a radio browser is a little out of the scope of radio tray. However, I plan to improve that “hunt” bit a little. But I still have some research to do. Thank you for your suggestion and for liking Radio Tray
Hi Japie Krekel, thanks for your help. Stay tuned, I’m gonna post some information on that.
@Uwe Thanks for the report, I’m going to take a look at it.
@Ice-Cream Thank you
@Carlos Ribeiro: sorry, I don’t anything about radio tray internals, but is it possible to submit new radio list entry via command line (rather than using the config box)? Since if it can be, it’s nice, no need to overcomplicate the code of radio tray (which should be small) but another frontend (whatever it is) can “submit”, so a browser can be implemented as a separate process. It would be also cool to “remote control” radio tray via cmdline too (switch radio station, switching off, and also the add station stuff maybe even delete?). Or via dbus? Hmm sorry if I only have odd ideas ….
This is a great little app. I think it’d fit rather nicely if it could be controlled with gnome-do
No, those are not odd ideas LGB 🙂 At this moment it’s not possible to submit commands through command line. I don’t plan to add direct control of radio tray through the command line, but I do plan to add a DBus interface. That way, making a command line remote control would be simpler, if needed. But having a DBus interface would make it available to much more than that.
Now, answering also to daveg, that DBus interface would allow someone to make a Gnome-Do plugin, for example. I’m hoping someone with experience in Gnome-Do would step forward to make a plugin for Radio Tray as soon as I have a DBus interface to work with 🙂