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The Mediaportal team have today released RC4! I’ll try and get it installed shortly.
Thanks in advance to all the team for their hard work!

I’ve recently started playing around with another great looking Mediaportal plugin - the Last.FM Radio plugin.

If you don’t know what Last.FM is, then in essence, it is rather similar to “Pandora”. You listen to music, tell it what you like, and it will recommend other artists and tunes you might like. The first thing to [...]

Spotted on a couple of forums, channel 5 (”Five”) is now broadcasting FTA so can be picked up on the PC at long last!
Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as just tuning to the FIve i’d already added to my EPG in preparation though, as it’s on a different frequency!
So to get FIVE working, I had [...]

Today I’ve managed to do a little more browsing of the Mediaportal forums and it looks like this problem is one that’s been around for a while. There is a possible fix (well, i’d call it a workaround) where disabling the EPG grab when the TVService is idle stops the hang.
I’ve set this option, so [...]