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radio in media app only allows for two favourite stations [answered]

asked 2016-09-27 18:05:19 +0300

hubat gravatar image

updated 2016-12-12 13:49:46 +0300

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Thank you for adding the fm-radio functionality into the Jolla media app. It is a great place to have the fm-receiver available in a simple and intuitive way.

Unfortunately I fail to be able to make proper use of it. The reason is at follows: There is no function to have the whole spectrum searched at once. Fair enough. The back and next buttons work good enough to quickly move through the spectrum. Apparently you are supposed to mark interesting stations as favourites so that they appear in the list to click on for quicker access. That's perfectly fine for me. The problem arises once I favour the second station. From now on the back and next buttons change their behaviour and they now switch between the entries of the list. That means I have now lost the ability to move through the spectrum and hence I never can favour a third station. I first have to un-favour one of my two stations to make the back and next button move through the spectrum again.

Please fix this issue by simply only ever let the buttons use the spectrum and never the list of favoured stations.

Cheers.

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answered 2016-09-27 23:21:54 +0300

updated 2016-09-28 02:01:38 +0300

You can scan for a next station by long pressing the back and next arrow buttons.Then you can use simple short tap on back/next button again to scan next station as before, until you select station from favourites or the scan function finds station that is already in favourites.

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I would still advocate for simply not changing the behaviour of the buttons after two selections have been made, but I accept that this is a matter of what is to be considered to be the better UX rather than a bug.

hubat ( 2016-09-28 02:11:57 +0300 )edit
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answered 2016-09-27 18:31:28 +0300

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updated 2016-09-27 18:32:44 +0300

You can click the frequency value and then you get two new arrows to tune up or down the frequency.

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Thank you for pointing that out, I didn't realise that before. But those buttons are only for fine tuning in 0.1 MHz steps. You can't jump between stations with them as you can with the back and next buttons. So this is not even good enough as a work-around.

hubat ( 2016-09-27 18:42:57 +0300 )edit
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Next update will have automatic scanning, see media in: lrelease notes 2.0.4, which is just around the corner.

rgrnetalk ( 2016-09-27 18:49:26 +0300 )edit

@Jamar If you turn your comment into an answer I could accept it as a solution ;-)

I would still advocate for simply not changing the behaviour of the buttons after two selections have been made, but I accept that this is a matter of what is to be considered to be the better UX rather than a bug.

hubat ( 2016-09-28 00:59:01 +0300 )edit

Converted and slightly expanded ;-)

Jamar ( 2016-09-28 02:02:32 +0300 )edit

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