The Sirius Widget has been a GR8 working player for quite awhile, I hope it gets Fixed, and Quick! But lets face facts, the real problem here is sirius' inability to supply their customers with a proper Streaming content Player! and wtf NO Howard on the iphone app? its BOGUS! It's time for us loyal customers to start to complain... siriusly -) and if they dont fix it... winamp has a nice built in shoutcast player... Search: "Howard" in the morning and see what you get =)

This …is the email i sent to customer I syggest we all become pro-active! I'm tired of sirius crappy media player with its crappy alarm! Heres the email I sent (what do you think?) :

[copied from complaint form]

Why?.. Still; after however many years have you guys at sirius not figured out that NOBODY wants the streaming media player to Check and see if we're still listening!!!! what the heck guys? up until very very recently there has always been some sort of third party solution, but due to your recent site renovations (i suspect) There is not a single working player to stream Sirius except your half-assed solution! You should be catering to the customers you have Now more then ever! Especially considering 90% will have no reason to stick around if Howard doesn't re-sign in a year! Sirius Should be going out of their way to make the satellite radio experience second to none!
Also, This whole business with XM and Sirius still being SEPARATE ??!! what is that? its been a year?! Sirius streams should run on XM players and vice verse, I should be able to call a single 1-800# to switch my account to XM from sirius if I want too (actually that shouldn't even be an option... One Company, One phone number, one name, one website, HELLO? its almost like you guys are trying to run that company into the ground!
Your Loyal customers have been and continue to be your best form of marketing (I myself have referred at least 10 friends and family members to sign-up!) Keep screwing us customers, and punishing us with annoying useless alarms, and blocking the third party streaming applications (that seem to know how to work your service WAY Better then you!) keep screwing us over and watch what happens in 2010... no more customers.

Please show us all a sign of solidarity starting by removing the "are you still listening" alarm! Please! this would be a hell of a good start towards showing us you care =) More

This widget is fantastic. I am not sure I would continue with sirius, without j tanner's sirius satellite tuner. I hope it can be, and is, fixed quickly.

It is disappointing that Sirius has not adopted this widget as their one and only media player.

This is an issue on Sirius' side... not the widget author's side. Don't give him 1 star for his 5 star app... he'll fix it as soon as he gets around to it.

'Word' on the net is that Sirius changed all their streaming URL's whcih would not only screw up all the 3rd party apps like the Widget but would probably cause some basic outages even for users with the Sirius site unil everything got changed over and everybody got their browsers refreshed. So yes, I do believe Sirius when they say they were experiencing outages, but I thnk until the 3rd party creators get the URL changed in their apps, the Sirius player may be the only option. Of course I may have no idea what I am talking about.

I have been having the same problem connecting. I hope that Tanner J can can come up with a good solution for this login and/or URL problem. This widget has been wonderful. It gets the main Sirius channels incuding Howard Stern and especially because it doesn't shut off every 45 minutes or so like the Sirius player does. I have used it for several hours a day and will really miss it if it can't be repaired.

btw to Gary, the password box has always been filled with more dots than the number of characters in your real password, presumably for added security.