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early adopters?

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We got any early adopters here? I'm putting together a little toy for work and I'd like some real preliminary feedback. Concept: all-local Internet radio - runs as a tiny window on your desktop while you're working & shows who's playing. Currently 137 songs, ~10hour playlist.

Known bugs:
- loading message doesn't show [you have to wait a couple minutes before it starts playing]
- volume slider doesn't work [use system volume]
- a number of the songs have f*d up ID3 tags [these won't show any info]
- the mysterious white box doesn't show ads yet
- pause/fast forward buttons don't exist
- a lot of the music is crap*ola

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💬 8 comments

  1. jsl ·

    I love the idea! It took about 30 seconds to start playing on firefox/linux here but sounds fantastic now. It's playing DMP - Wildfire. Is this a local band? Can you link to their web site from the player page?

    If we get a community wireless network functioning we can have tons of free bandwidth for this kind of thing. ;)

  2. kara ·

    I'm trying it out. It'll be competing with pandora.com though.

  3. museumchick ·

    Very cool:). I wish I had headphones in the library now so I could try listening to it.

  4. carolinian ·

    As an Artvoice reader (assuming that you're doing this for Artvoice) what I would find really useful is a way to hear music from the bands listed in your music events section, as this would help me make an informed decision about what I want to go to.

    Look here :::link::: and imagine a "Play" button by every entry (or a link to the band's myspace page). That's what I think would be really cool.

    As for your radio station, "Dashboard Widget Candidate" definitely.

  5. uncutsaniflush ·

    It works in elive(debian etch) using firefox, err I mean ice weasel. It took about 10 seconds to load on an athelon 900 with 378 megs of ram.

    What version of Flash Player are you are coding for? Do you think it will work with Flash Player 7?

  6. tinypliny ·

    Hmm.. tried to load it on Opera (Win XP) and all I get is this: :::link:::
    No sound.

  7. uncutsaniflush ·

    I answered one of my own questions, here's a screen shot of your widget running on pclinuxos .93a (more or less) with firefox 1.5x with flash player for linux 7 something :::link:::



  8. uncutsaniflush ·

    oh yeah the pclinuxos box has a 2.66 mhz celeron processer and 768 megs of ram and the sound did work.

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