KATG.com iPhone App 1.2

[hayroob]

Originally Posted by 89vision

I don't know if you have checked out the This American Life iphone app but they have implemented a really elegant way of playing archived shows. Might be something to check out for the future. Thanks for the app though it's great. I'll send a couple bones your way for your efforts

When that app came out the amount of awesome it contained made me feel ill. All the shit I had worked to do and all the things that I wanted to make better but told myself were to much to do, were done and perfect. It is so good that I hate it and them for making me face the reality of how good an app can be.

Expect me to borrow and outright steal from them.

The only reason I don't completely hate myself is that I'm doing this app pretty much on my own and they had a team of dudes getting paid good good money.

I wake up in cold sweats late in the night from nightmares that TAL got even better and I can never be that good.

[Vandole]

Originally Posted by Vandole

i just got the app for my new iphone, and i can't stream any archived episodes.



ive reinstalled the app, restarted my phone, and restarted the app many times... any suggestions?

did a search for iphone app and the take 2 thread is what popped up, sorry.

but yeah, any idea whats up?

[hayroob]

Stream over 3G is disabled by default, go to settings, then katg and turn it on.

Or connect to wifi.

(your jailbreak is absurdly ugly and sullying my app, delete that screen shot.)

[hayroob]

Originally Posted by Sajizzle

The TAL app has an awesome option on their show archives where you can pick shows "By Contributor". That would be a tremendous way to implement the list at katg.com/guests if you can figure out how they did it. Lord knows I'd love to download me nothing but Adam Brown and spooky shows!

you can search by guests right now, search bar, select guests, type name

[Vandole]

thanks for the help.

[DaHonay]

Need some help... I'm new to the iThings. Mr. DaH has an iPhone but I've never been into it until now. I got an iTouch and OF COURSE the 1st thing I did was load the KATG app!

Here is my quandry... when I am in archives listening to past shows, I can't exit out of the QT player and be using another app at the same time like I can when I'm listening through iTunes where I straight downloaded the podcast. Is this standard? Or is there perhaps a setting that I am missing? It stops playing completely.

Also, the archive shows I am trying to listen to REGULARLY (5-6 times a show) will cut out and start over even when I'm sitting in one spot and there WiFi is strong. Again... new to this fun. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

[s2b]

Originally Posted by DaHonay

Here is my quandry... when I am in archives listening to past shows, I can't exit out of the QT player and be using another app at the same time like I can when I'm listening through iTunes where I straight downloaded the podcast. Is this standard? Or is there perhaps a setting that I am missing? It stops playing completely.

This is standard behavior. It will work in the summer with the new iPhone OS 4.0
We have to be patient till then.

Speaking of 4.0, Doug if you need some testing, I've got the beta running on my phone.

[arty]

Originally Posted by s2b

This is standard behavior. It will work in the summer with the new iPhone OS 4.0

You'll need the latest iPhone 3GS or third generation iPod touch to get multitasking
and first generations iphone and touch won't be able to upgrade to 4.0 at all.

[DaHonay]

Originally Posted by arty

You'll need the latest iPhone 3GS or third generation iPod touch to get multitasking
and first generations iphone and touch won't be able to upgrade to 4.0 at all.

Originally Posted by s2b

This is standard behavior. It will work in the summer with the new iPhone OS 4.0
We have to be patient till then.

Speaking of 4.0, Doug if you need some testing, I've got the beta running on my phone.

How will that effect the iTouch?

[lintsdream]

until you can run the katg app in the background you can add this bookmark to the home screen http://liveshow.keithandthegirl.com:8004/listen.pls
it'll open in safari's built-in quicktime and that can run in the background on the older ipod touch without the need for 4.0