Streamer turns your Apple TV into a radio

Um, I know apple says you need an HDTV... but you don't. So Scott, if you want one you can buy one.

Source:

http://www.appletvhacks.net/page/6/

second story, have fun!

Nice, but Internet radio happens to be in jeopardy thanks to the RIAA increasing the rates (for Internet radio in particular) to levels that would put almost all Internet radio providers (including Pandora) out of business.

I normally do my best to ignore politics, but that industry may go extinct in 61 days if people don't complain to their representatives in Congress. Savenetradio.org if you're interested.

Randy,

The AppleTV has (by default) no support for streaming radio at all. If you add a stream to a playlist in iTunes, then try syncing the AppleTV - it does not sync that stream to the AppleTV. Streamer allows you to enter your own stream link, and then listen through the Apple interface. Later versions will also include directory support (similar to the current Radio functionality in iTunes).

-Dakaix

I don't have an Apple TV (yet), but couldn't you just play internet radio stations by adding the addresses to iTunes. I currently stream afew stations in iTunes and it stores the link as kind of a bookmark, then I just clcik on it and click the play button. Wouldn't those links show up on the Apple TV? What's better about this plug? If it's better, I'm open minded. Just curious.

Will this work with Sirius?

I saw the same demos, artifacts and all. But I bought one anyway. Oddly enough, watching the exact same movies (The Incredibles, and Pirates) looks a million times better when I bought them from the iTunes store at home. And my TV is larger than the 32 inch ones at the store. I got up close to the tv at home, and watched the same scenes, still much better.

Seems like the person who created the in store demo increased th compression dramatically. I'm a bit amazed apple would let that demo on into the Apple Store.

I went to the apple store this weekend in providence. I have to say, everything was awesome with the Apple TV until I played their demo movies. The picture quality was terrible!

Cool, thanks for the awesomely fast response. :)

Hey, I'm Dakaix - the developer. Streamer doesnt intefere with the standard AppleTV screensaver - so after a couple of mins idle (playing a stream or otherwise), the screensaver will kick in.

Does the screen include some kind of saver, so it won't burn in on those older plasmas?