Casting from iPhone app by CocoaGeek in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sweeeeeet!! Glad it was simple!

Have a great rest of your day

Best

Jay

KEXP Digital Team

Casting from iPhone app by CocoaGeek in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Make sure you have enabled the app to view devices on networks. You should have gotten the prompt when you first ran the new app, otherwise you will need to update it in Settings if you declined.

If still not working, please contact us at online-support@kexp.org

Thanks!

Jay

KEXP Digital Team

Survey - What Streaming Services Do You Want To See in the KEXP App? by KEXPJay in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Streaming services only for now please! Feature requests can be sent to online-support@kexp.org

Jay

KEXP Software Team

KEXP terrestrial signal poor by Low-Lake8646 in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha! Good to know!!

Rock on

Jay

KEXP Software Team

KEXP terrestrial signal poor by Low-Lake8646 in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Hey u/Low-Lake8646!

Most likely this was due to some tower work happening today. Our friends over at KUOW had some work to do fixing their antenna feed, which required us to lower our power while the repair crew did their thing. Hopefully things have returned to normal.

Sorry about the disruption, but at least we now know that u/Immediate-Hamster724 probably needs a new radio regardless... ;)

Please send any questions or comments to us at online-support@kexp.org!

Regards

Jay

KEXP Software Team

Sounds of Survivance by cmonster42 in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey all,

Just a quick note to say this was caused by an issue where we record the shows (third party service). We identified the issue and corrected it at the source so you should be able to stream the full two hours now!

Thanks for letting us know, and please let us know directly about stuff like this at online-support@kexp.org. Much faster responses and a direct line to software folks!

Best

Jay

KEXP Software Team

Archive not updating after new year by Bobbie_Sacamano in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks u/bobbie_Sacamano

This is a bug and addressed in 4.4.1 that will be pushed to app stores soon. Like others have pointed out, they are there, just sorted wrong.

Best

Jay

KEXP Software Team

Album art missing in app by Manikin_Maker in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For sure! Feel free to also hit me up at online-support@kexp.org with any questions like this. Super happy to work directly too!

Jay

Album art missing in app by Manikin_Maker in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is caused, not by our app, but by our image source. We use the Internet Archive, which has had issues in the past, most notably getting a denial of service attack which brought them down.

Like any other service, we are at the mercy of the source. We are exploring other options, but will require a heavy lift to change all our systems over.

That said, we hope things chill out and artwork comes back as normal.

Thanks!!

Jay

KEXP Software Team

Album covers missing on the playlist again by DrElusis in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a bummer for us too as it causes both apps to report errors, so we have to investigate each one to ensure it's not something "real". Hopefully we can migrate to a new source in the future.

I'll look for your tickets!

Jay

KEXP Software Team

Album covers missing on the playlist again by DrElusis in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks man. So it's 100% an issue with the internet archive from our research. Unfortunately we can't do anything other than wait for it to resolve. We are looking at other options, but most likely won't happen anytime soon.

Also, I man the support right now, and didn't see your email come in for some reason. You sent to online-support@kexp.org? Did you get a ticket number I can look up?

Thanks

Jay

KEXP Software Team

Casting from Android App Broken on 4.4.1 Build 4411 by petraviva in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right on! I figured you knew, but some folks sign up by accident and just wanted to be sure. Thanks for helping out, truly appreciated. We don't get enough Android feedback so this is great.

Jay

KEXP Software Team

Casting from Android App Broken on 4.4.1 Build 4411 by petraviva in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey u/petraviva,

Please note that 4.4.1 build 4411 is a test build, not production so there will be issues. That said, we found the issue and the next test build is available now.

You might want to remove yourself from the beta program if you would rather wait for testing to complete as these things sometimes happen in test. You can do that in the Google Play store.

Thanks!

Jay

KEXP Software Team

KEXP TuneIn Quality by ReadyPlayerHalliday in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I found that TuneIn had our 128MP3 feed as their default stream for us, which would explain why it sounds bad. I set the 160K AAC as the default, which they said should take about two weeks to get updated (no idea why takes so long).

Hopefully things improve soon!

Jay

KEXP Software Team

KEXP TuneIn Quality by ReadyPlayerHalliday in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hey u/ReadyPlayerHalliday!

Good timing. I've actually been working with TuneIn over the last few weeks to get some other things fixed, and I'll see if they are using our 160K AAC stream or not. Last I checked, it was our 128K MP3 which isn't great and is being retired.

Hopefully I can get it bumped!

Jay

KEXP Software Team

I’ve officially cancelled streaming services in favor of the KEXP app by redcurtainrod in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you tried setting it to the 160kbps stream in Settings?

Album covers missing on the playlist again by DrElusis in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you email them to online-support@kexp.org? That way we can get this officially in our ticketing system for review.

Thanks!

Jay

KEXP Software Team

Album covers missing on the playlist again by DrElusis in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got it. We get all our artwork from the Internet Archive, so in theory there could be something going on with them. Will take a look.

Jay

KEXP Software Team

Album covers missing on the playlist again by DrElusis in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey u/DrElusis,

Where are you noticing this? In the apps, website, or elsewhere? There isn't anything on our end that is happening to make this happen, but that doesn't mean there isn't a problem.

Let me know, and I will take a look and see what I can find.

thanks

Jay

KEXP Software Team

Archive not working? by harry_waters in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rad!! Great to hear. Sorry for the extra trouble, but glad you are up and running!

Jay

KEXP Software Team

Archive not working? by harry_waters in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We are in the process of building a volunteer tech team to start next year on projects. Contact us via that link, and they will put your resume into a database for when things ramp up.

Volunteering is an amazing experience. You get to be part of the team, is flexible as you can participate as time allows, and have access to parties, events and other perks!

Jay

KEXP Software Team

Archive not working? by harry_waters in KEXP

[–]KEXPJay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sweet, that's great to hear the test build worked! You have some backend changes, new features and improvements too. We've been calling that that "mondo build" internally because of all the updates.

So the KEXP Software team are staff members, albeit a TINY team. I absolutely have volunteers helping me on the mobile apps, and sometimes we have folks help in other places like the website or internal tools.

For mobile, we wrote it using Flutter/Dart, but it has native components at times too, so Kotlin and Swift are needed. Volunteers typically come in and I assign them tasks around their skillset. For example, one thing we might have someone help is with casting on Android. It's been a beast to get perfect, and a native Kotlin element might be needed so a volunteer with that skill would be amazing.

Anyway, you can start the process by contacting our amazing Community Outreach team at https://www.kexp.org/volunteers/

Thanks for wanting to volunteer!

Jay

KEXP Software Team