Wishlist

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Alternative firmware wishlist

The following list shows some features which would be possible to implement with the new firmware. This list is not complete, neither definitive, feel free to add your own ideas.

  • Show the time of day while playing audio
  • Running the radio without depending on the Reciva databases
  • Support for additional audio codecs (ogg, flac, aacp etc) and network protocols
  • Better control over audio: equalizer, panning, etc.
  • The Barracuda provides an USB 1.1 Host interface - playing from USB storage device ?
  • Accessibility features, e.g. talking menus for the blind
  • Improvement : Direct access to Alarm and Sleep time settings form keyboard.
  • Improvement : Stable access to Windows share folders, even if the number of files is huge !
  • Improvement : Stable implementation of UPnP .
  • New Feature : Offer the ability to display as a "ticker" the headlines of an RSS flux.
  • New Feature : Embedded webserver to modify the configuration of the radio.
  • New Feature : Checking periodically a pop3 account and display the number of unread mail.
  • Improvement : "my podcast" feature: Possibility to enqueue in the playlist all the files in a podcast.
  • Improvement : Wake up to a radio program.
  • Improvement : Offer the ability to pause a podcast.
  • ... More here ...
  • New feature : Support server side plug-ins on web server - e.g. PHP
  • Improvement : Pausing Podcasts
  • Improvement : Clock on Display when playing.
  • Improvement : Option to get rid of that Damn infantile 'Real Enabled' banner.
  • Improvement : Option to choose the wake to station from 'My Stations' rather than JUST the presets.
  • Improvement : Support for LastFM and Pandora from non US locations
  • Improvement : Add usb memory stick and input station, stream & podcast addresses through the Sharkfin interface.

A means of patching the config files through a more user friendly frontend integrated into the Sharkfin browser would be a real leap forward for many - vi is a real headbanger for us not so techy folk! Even being able to use vi from within the browser would be a leap forward.

Is it possible or practical that a radio button type frontend could be used to create and execute a script on the radio? I am pretty sure that some firmwares write to the config files when they update.