The Upper Peak radio

Needles to say that a radio from which you can choose your prefered music is an essential part of any home. The Upper Peak radio installed last month was meant to meet that often requested need. However, since it was installed, it has been a source of pleasure for some but frustration for most. This is why there is an entire post dedicated to this media player and it's replacement.

The first and biggest problem was that most streams if not all, would not work with with SL clients wunning on Windows^TM or MacOS^TM (which regrettably represents 97% of SL clients).

Second, since the radio needed to be deeded to the land it was on to work, it also suffered from the "Dialog menus can fail when an object is deeded to a group" (SVC-1815) bug. (If you vote for it to be fixed it may be fixed sooner.)

Obviously a replacement was urgently needed. After many tests and hours of tweaking a replacement was finally made.

In the morning of May 3rd a new version of the radio that fixes both these issues will be installed at all locations.

First the scripts have been further modified to better handle specific types of streams under Windows^TM and MacOS^TM. The new radio now has something for every tastes with 52 streams including classical, jazz, lounge, progressive, ambient, world music and the list goes on. Be sure you have the “Play Streaming Media” option turned on in your Audio Preferences (press control-P) and the latest version of QuickTime^TM installed.

Second, the radio now accepts most of the menu commands by way of user chat in addition to the standard menu. This means that when the menu fails, you will still be able to change stations and play the selected stream. Chat commands are given on channel 97. i.e.: /97 PLAY


Here is the list of commands, all case sensitive:

/97 PLAY
/97 STOP
/97 LIST
/97 +1
/97 -1
/97 +10
/97 -10

Please note that in the same way that the menu works, you must give the PLAY command once you have selected a station or stream.


Questions or comments, feel free to contact Sir Bernard directly.


APRIL 29 UPDATE:

Chat commands are nice but why not use one of the greatest inventions of all time, the button. The radio to be installed on May 3rd will have it's own, giving direct access to your 6 presets. Also from the options menu it will be possible to choose from 12 colours that best suit your decor.

Upper Peak Thams

Located on Linden Labs Sansara (The Old Continent) mainland continent, our Thams location offers a few choices of sky boxes; Cabins, Tranquillity and quarantine.

• Cabin
  
  Affordable and cosy, the cabin is fully furnished with a bedroom with animated bed, living room with lounge chairs and fireplace.
  
  

  
  

• Tranquility
  
  Escape in a calming Asian styled house hidden in a bamboo forest. Tranquillity is inspired by a Mokurai-an (黙雷庵, Silent Thunder Hut) is furnished with animated bed, animated shower / bath and animated massage table.
  
  
  

• quarantine
  
  Perfectly aged steel, copper and wood garnish your quarantine location. Equipped with a smoke free heating system and a variable speed cooling apparatus. You will find sleeping / recreational quarters at the bunker level and a meeting area for you and a few of your stranded friends at the cage level.
  
  
• Santih
  
  
  The Santih a place allowing for serenity, peace and calmness. Hidden in the depths of a jungle, wrapped in humidity, the Santih home is furnished with everything you need to forget about all but what is important to you. You will find a spa, an animated massage bed, a deep tub shower and a four post romantic bed.
  
  

There is a security system at your disposal in all rentals to keep unwanted guests out of your home.

Prices and other details can be found at the Thams rental office.


Visit Upper Peak Thams today

Upper Peak Maquapit

Located on Linden Labs Sansara (The Old Continent) mainland continent, our Maquapit location offers 3 choices of sky boxes; Cabins, Mokurai-an and Beach house.

• Cabin
  
  Affordable and cosy, the cabin is fully furnished with a bedroom with animated bed, living room with lounge chairs and fireplace.
  
  

  
  
  

• Mokurai-an
  
  Escape in a calming Asian styled house hidden in a bamboo forest. This Mokurai-an (黙雷庵, Silent Thunder Hut) furnished with animated bed, animated shower / bath and animated massage table.
  
  

  
  

• Beach house
  
  Relaxing beach house surrounded by sand and water. This Beach House is already furnished with animated bed, animated victorian shower / bath.
  
  

There is a security system at your disposal in all rentals to keep unwanted guests out of your home.


Prices and other details can be found at the Maquapit rental office.

Visit Upper Peak Maquapit today

How to rent an Upper Peak location

To rent a skybox you must first locate one that is available. Available syboxes are identified by the rental box size and image. A rental box identified as available is larger, higher and has a preview picture of the location to be rented.

Once you have chosen your new home from the available locations simply right click on the rental box above the teleporter of that location and select "Pay". The smallest amount on the Pay dialog box is for a period of one(1) week.


Once you have become resident you will get a group invitation from Upper Peak rentals shortly thereafter. You must be in this group to be able to place your own objects in your new home.

How to visit an Upper Peak location

To visit a skybox you must first locate one that is available. Available syboxes are identified by the rental box size and image. A rental box identified as available is larger, higher and has a preview picture of the location to be rented.


Once you have located an available location simply touch the disk on the ground below it. This is a teleporter. When touched a green or blue teleport disk will appear above it. Touching this glowing disk will take you to the available location so you can visit it's surroundings. All doors are locked until someone rents that specific location. At that time the doors, security and teleporter will only work for this tenant. Extra guest can be added to the doors, teleporter or rental box to share rental costs.

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