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Re: Show HN: Radio - My first Mac app

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Post by dglancy »

robbiep wrote: post #7

Seems great. Can I suggest you add this list of stations? http://www.abc.net.au/radio/listenlive.htm#shoutcastaac Australians will be forever grateful

Will defo do that. Radio connects to a plist file on startup so we can push new stations to it. Thanks for the links.

Getting a decent list of stations was one of the most frustrating aspects of the project. That and catering for WMA based streams.

Re: Show HN: Radio - My first Mac app

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Post by dglancy »

treme wrote: post #11

fantastic. May I ask, what was your reasoning for calling it such a generic name?

Sure. Nothing sneaky or anything like that. We were of course tossing around app names. Anything but "iRadio" :-)

Nothing was sticking and people were asking me how we were getting on with the "Radio" personal project. I always kinda of imagined the project as making a menubar radio player that "should have shipped with my Mac". So when we noticed that "Radio" itself was available in the App Store, it just resonated with us and stuck.

Re: Show HN: Radio - My first Mac app

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Post by dglancy »

dglancy wrote: post #13
treme wrote: post #11

fantastic. May I ask, what was your reasoning for calling it such a generic name?

Sure. Nothing sneaky or anything like that. We were of course tossing around app names. Anything but "iRadio" :-) Nothing was sticking and people were asking me how we were getting on with the "Radio" personal project. I always kinda of imagined the project as making a menubar radio player that "should have shipped with my Mac". So when we noticed that "Radio" itself was available in the App Store, it just resonated…

And getting {radioformac dot com} was just plain luck. Cost us €5.99. Try getting any dot com domain with radio in the word is just nuts. So again, we saw that as a sign!

Re: Show HN: Radio - My first Mac app

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ique wrote: post #15

Is it possible for non-apple developers to integrate with AirPlay? Because that would be a really nice feature to have!

It is and its on our list (actually its on a git branch). Just didn't make it across the line for v1.

As a stop gap we have this in our FAQ:

Radio currently doesn't directly support Airplay.

However, if you'd really like to stream Radio via Airplay, here is a trick you can use:

Hold the Alt-key and click on the Volume icon in the menu bar, a menu will appear showing any available Airplay device. Select your Airplay device and all your sounds will play over Airplay.

Re: Show HN: Radio - My first Mac app

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Post by dglancy »

cake wrote: post #17

Looks very similar to Radium : http://catpigstudios.com/

It is a bit. Menubar radio players will all seem similar. I was a Radium user myself. It was the "record" function of this app that prompted me to make it. I wanted to record radio shows, budget speeches and a specific Dutch trance music show I listen to and I couldn't find an easy way to do that. There were ways, but nothing one-click and resident on the menu bar.
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