I Heart Radio sounds like it's in slow motion and garbled
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- Create a desktop shortcut (described on https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/182161-shortcut-create-file-folder-drive-program-windows.html) to file vivaldi.exe
- Open Property of desktop shortcut
- In field Destination add after vivaldi.exe this:
--user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0" - Start this special version of Vivaldi
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@Gwen-Dragon, I've done the steps you said, but unfortunately, it didn't work for me.
I tried from my Windows 7 laptop and validated at What's my user agent? that everything was set up correctly. Unfortunately, iHeart continues not working correctly. Tried in the same laptop with Firefox and Opera browsers and it worked seamlessly with them.
In addition, I solved the related problems I had in my Linux box a few days ago.
So, from my point of view the sitution is a follows:
- There problem has nothing to do with my location, since it works in Linux desktop PC and in Windows 7 laptop with other browsers all sharing the same internet connection.
- I think there is something wrong in Vivaldi itself, not having a good integration with the codec: Sound does work, but it does in a slow motion fashion. It looks like something needs to be tweaked to definitely make it work.
I hope a solution can be found shortly.
Thank you!
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@Musikolo said in I Heart Radio sounds like it's in slow motion and garbled:
Unfortunately, iHeart continues not working correctly.
The steps provided by @Gwen-Dragon were to solve the CNBC problem. As you found, they will not help those with problem on iHeart.
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Interestingly, while applying the fix mentioned by @Gwen-Dragon does take care of the cnbc issue; as Musikolo mentioned, it does not affect the iHeart issue. Also for me, it breaks some functionality in Google Keep & Google Calendar. So I have removed the suggested fix repairing the Google issues but back to square one on the garbled audio.
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Just wanted to update and say that the newest stable version of Vivaldi fixed this issue for me.
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@NineWest Nice to hear it solved your problem.
And thanks for feedback!
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I seem to have jinxed myself. Something happened between my last post and now which has brought back the garbled mess. I turned off all my extensions to check that and doing so didn't change anything.
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It still doesn't work in Vivaldi 1.9 for Windows. It keeps on working in Vivaldi 1.9 for Linux (same as it did in 1.8 and 1.7 at least). It works good with other Windows browsers in the same laptop.
I wish a solution is found to this old issue!
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Can confirm this issue still exists on Vivaldi 1.9, and is horribly annoying to see it still hanging around
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I've started using the Agent Switcher extension and choosing IE 9 or 10 when using iHeart Radio. It takes longer for stations to load but seems to work. If I switch stations sometimes I have to reload the page a couple times to get things working right again.
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@Musikolo Thanks, it worked.
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@Gwen-Dragon
I've tried again my iHeart Radio station on Vivaldi 1.9.818.50 for Windows and at last it's working! I didn't need any user agent switcher at all. It just works with plain vanilla Vivaldi.I don't know what has changed in Vivaldi, but anyway, it's as awesome as unexpected!
Thank you!
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@Musikolo said in I Heart Radio sounds like it's in slow motion and garbled:
@Gwen-Dragon
I've tried again my iHeart Radio station on Vivaldi 1.9.818.50 for Windows and at last it's working! I didn't need any user agent switcher at all. It just works with plain vanilla Vivaldi.Ah,. nice to read.
I hope the other iHeart listeners here have same working 1.9 Vivaldi and are as happy as you are.
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It's working for me too. I just hope the next time Google does an update it doesn't bork things up again concerning this issue.
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The page fails on all browsers like Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Vivaldi.
So that is a problem of the webdesigners at iHeart.
