XMicroplayer

Purpose:

This is a player for the 'XM radio online' service provided bywww.xmradio.com . I wrote this player because I wanted something that is nice, simple, small, and not tied into the Windows Media Player user interface or a web browser. XMicroplayer has a small and easy to use no-nonsense user interface.

Disclaimer:

Use this software at your own risk. This software and its author are not affiliated with XM Satellite Radio, Inc.

Requirements:

You must have an account with Sirius/XM Satellite Radio (www.xmradio.com ) to use this player. You also need to have Windows Media Player version 9 or better installed on your computer. This software is designed for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Getting Started:

XMicroplayer as an automatic install program that will install the software and put an XMicroplayer icon on your desktop. Click this icon to launch the software.

When the software starts for the first time, it will not know your account settings -- you will have to configure them. To do this, press the setup button, which brings up a screen with places for you to type in your XM username and password.

Once you've entered your account settings and hit <Ok>, the program should attempt to connect to the Sirius/XM service. If you have entered everything correctly and have a valid Sirius/XM account, then it should work. The default channel is "channel 8", and it should start playing, as well as print the song title and artist.

NOTE: Sirius/XM switched all their logins from XM logins to Sirius logins. If you were an XM customer then they might have emailed or called you about this sometime around September/October 2010. Make sure to use the Sirius name and password, and not your old XM name/password.

When things go wrong:

The most obvious thing to check is that you've entered the correct name and password.

If everything appears to work, but you get no sound, then it might be an issue with the version of Windows Media Player that you have installed. I've personally tested XMicroplayer with WMP versions 9, 10, and 11.

Command-line options:

Command-line options can be used to influence the program (for example, from a windows startup script, etc). The program supports the following options:

-regkey <keyname>	The registry key to use when saving and loading settings
-channel <n>	Channel number
-username <username>	XM radio online username
-password <password>	XM radio online password
-minimize	Minimize the main window when starting
-systray	Minimize the main window to the system tray when starting

Revision History

Version 1.0
- Initial public release
Version 1.1
- Fix preset buttons not updating when presets changed
- Add taskbar icon
- Add taskbar popup menu
- Add option to shrink to taskbar when close button clicked
- Play button will always cause a reconnect (fixes issues with stops causing the connection to fail)
Version 1.2
- XM changed some of the URLs, this beta version tries to get them right, hopefully correcting the "unable to extract stream URL" bug
Version 1.3
- Fixed stuck on channel 8
Version 1.4
- Migrated to BDS 2009
- Finally got around to fixing the ampersands in the song & artist data
- Fixed a memory leak. It was in TCookieManager, TStringManager leaks memory on destruction if a freelist isn't used. My bad.
Version 1.5
- Migrated to BDS XE
- Switched from XM to Sirius. All logins now use Sirius IDs/Passwords
Version 1.6
- It's been so long I don't even remember what I did
- Probably more stuff dealing with sirius/xm compatibility issues
- I appear to have added a checkbox to allow choosing XM logins instead of sirius logins (does it work)
- Maybe I did something with the sirius lineup too; memory is bad! bad!
- Oh, and I fixed a really bad bug where I had % in a string but meant to put &. I'm surprised it worked at all.
Version 1.8

Fixed the great memory leak of doom (didn't I already fix TCookieManager's memory leaks?)
Fought a great deal with CodeGuard because it seems to be horribly confused if files are closed.