Radio station logos on screen

[Lennart]

When I started my SB Radio for the first time I was pleased to see the radio station (or program) logos on the screen. But a couple of weeks ago the logos disappeared and instead a black and white picture of a radio transmitter appeared!

However, when I start my Squeesbox server and select My Music and then switch on some radio station the station logo is shown on the screen! I find this quite strange. I use my SB primarily to listen to internet radio so I have my computer switched off most of the time.

To my best knowledge, I have done no change in my system that would cause the above. Yesterday I reset my SB Radio to the factory settings. This did not change anything. I have also tried to unplug my router an reconnect again.

I run my SB Radio in wireless mode from my router. I also have another internet radio (of another make) in wireless mode.

Can anyone help me with the radio station logos? Besides this problem my Squeesbox functions without problems.

Lennart

[BLatSD]

Known problem when connected to MySqueezebox.com. See my reply on this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83121

Also of course, you can go back to running & connecting with your PC SB server.

(You can also read the much longer discussion on this subject at: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73290 )

[Lennart]

Thank you BLatSD for the reply. I tried the propsed remedy, but it didn't work. I hope Logitech is doing a fix for this problem!

Best regards,
Lennart

[BLatSD]

I do have a question about this that maybe the old-timers or learned ones can answer...

The radio station logo artwork, is that sent by the streaming station or by RadioTime?

Since I'm not familiar with the streaming media protocol, it got me wondering whether the artwork is received in a header of the stream or whether the radio pulls the logo in a separate operation from RadioTime after or as it begins streaming?

I've got 5 station 'favorites" that were not listed in RadioTime which I manually entered their urls via MySB.com's favorites tab. These stations have never sent a station logo and always displays Mr. B&W Antenna.

The pattern so far has been that favorites that were added via RadioTime intermittently display station logos (sometimes with a little trickery), and all non-RadioTime favorites don't. Maybe that's coincidence or maybe not.

[bluegaspode]

I just checked for Radio stations from Berlin and the logos are all server via RadioTime.

URLs look like the following: http://radiotime-logos.s3.amazonaws.com/s25111q.png

so they are served from Amazon S3.

[BLatSD]

Thanks!

Since you were able to retreive the url to the artwork file, can you offer any insight into how this happens? For example:

1. RadioTime station is selected on radio.
2. Radio contacts RadioTime which does a lookup for the station.
3. It then sends the user's radio two bits of information, the stream url which the radio directly connects with, then the artwork url which the radio downloads and sends to the display.

Or ???

In other words, this whole mystery with the station artwork that MySB.com gets blamed for, could it actually be a RadioTime issue?

Of course, that doesn't explain why SBS users are able to display the artwork all the time. Somehow, MySB.com is still playing a role somewhere, somehow.