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HN: Here's 100 invites to our closed beta

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Post by thegreatllama »

HN: I bestow you with 100 invites to our closed beta program! =)

*UPDATE: We felt it was a little unfair that people weren't given a chance after 30 minutes of posting this, so we've increased it to 200 invites. Please keep in mind that we're not trying to focus on growth right now, but user feedback, so if you can't get in, please hang in there until we release this after it's ready.

Would love feedback; we're a newer startup in the midwest trying to open up the world of internet radio. The API and documentation is in the works.

http://www.onellama.com Invite code: ycnews

Cheers, -The Llama

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Post by iamdave »

I'm loving this already. Very clean and to the point interface, simple signup process, nice decision in using the genre cloud. I see LOTS of potential here.

Though I do have to wonder if you will have to deal with streaming issues, even though these other radio stations are doing the work.

I do have one question though, the sound quality is actually quite poor, how do you plan to address that? I Can easily see myself finding a station and just letting it run all day if I code, but only if there's better sound.

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Post by huhtenberg »

>The password field may only contain alpha-numeric characters.

Why ?!

Also, the site is completely useless if the FlashBlock is installed. Neither does it complain about the lack of Flash support nor does it show any Flash items that could unblocked in a FlashBlock. For this reason clicking on a Play button doesn't yield any audio output and it's absolutely unclear why and how to get it working.

Also, and this is subjective of course, the orange part of the color scheme is pretty unpleasant to look at. Same goes for the greenish part at the bottom, it looks kind of "dirty".

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#4

Post by spohlenz »

Get rid of the ridiculous requirement of only allowing alpha-numeric characters. I almost turned away at that.

Otherwise I'm loving the clean interface and overall responsiveness.

I would suggest cleaning up the search results as the closely spaced lines of text are a bit daunting.

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Post by chipmunc56 »

IamDave I'm one of the founders of the company, and we appreciate your feedback. As a programmer I am keenly aware of the issue you are describing, and e are currently working to provide more options on bit-rate and quality. I would expect this to happen within the next few weeks and if you send an e-mail to me at amit@onellama.com I would be happy to let you know as soon as it happens.

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Post by thegreatllama »

huhtenberg wrote: post #3

> The password field may only contain alpha-numeric characters . Why ?! Also, the site is completely useless if the FlashBlock is installed. Neither does it complain about the lack of Flash support nor does it show any Flash items that could unblocked in a FlashBlock. For this reason clicking on a Play button doesn't yield any audio output and it's absolutely unclear why and how to get it working. Also, and this is s…

Removed the alpha-numeric requirement.
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