A remote control for the Yahoo! Music Engine. Displays the currently playing song and lets you control playback. You can also rate songs, artists and albums using the 100-point scale.
First off, I have to say this is one of my favorite and most used widgets...I love it, Well done!
That being said, there is a little thing that happens about every 25-30 minutes - that is about all the pattern I have noticed at this time. After the stated amount of time (or so) the widget dies. Both the widget engine and the music engine are still "running". My other widgets are unaffected, but this "crash" of the widget seems to take the music engine with it, making it n…on-responsive. I can kill the locked up music engine with a simple right-click and close (and a short wait), but I have to restart the widget engine to get the music engine widget up again. I don't think the widget is completely killed when it crashes. The widget engine does not think it is there, as far as I can tell, however there are still the same number of widget engine threads, in the task manager, as before.
Sorry for the book and thanks for the awesome widget.More
May 24, 2006 ·
version 1.5 Doesn't work!
ok, i guess it's because i'm upset... but i really dislike this Widget and i'm going to give it a one star rating only because when i installed it and hooked up the yahoo engine music it doesn't work... play... or anything... just sits there on my computer like a unnecessary icon i always pick at to delete and that threw off my groove... so i deleted the whole yahoo widget program all together because of this! thanks alot whoever that created it,
May 17, 2006 ·
version 1.5 dyelton
After a few songs the widget stops responding to new tracks being played. The album art, song title, artist, etc. all hang on one particular song even though a completely different song is playing. The pause button works when this happens but does not change to a play symbol. You can hit the forward track during this time to go to the next song. When this happens it makes the widget nearly useless as you can't rate or see the current song information since it isn't the current song playing.
May 10, 2006 ·
version 1.5 andy
i really like it - except it's blowing up when i pause something - any ideas?