The llama made me think of winamp, any connection?
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#32Love it. Just yesterday I thought about finding an internet radio site, then forgot. You reminded me.
Everythings worked great so far. Only found is a small display issue when playing. Heres a screenie of the issue (the last line of the music description is cut off, above the blue tool bar) http://www.digitalcarpenter.com.au/uploads/Screenshot-OneLla...
Only seems to happen in Firefox 2.0.0.16 on Linux. I tested Firefox 2.0.0.16 on windows and it didn't happen.
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#33I think the site is very responsive. First impression the UI could use a little bit more work, in terms of displaying content on the bottom half. One thing I am really curious about is how you stream the music so fast. Bu that I mean, there is literally no latency issues from the time i click on a podcast and it starts playing the stream. Great product you have here. More feedback as I use it more :)
That's very intriguing to me too. It feels like it's loading up faster than a simple web-page!
I like the design even though the ability to use a smaller version of the page could be interesting (think that you have a specific small page open all day, kind of like the reduced version of iTunes).
Overall, I was very impressed by the responsiveness and the quality was pretty good for the stations I tried.
Good luck! it looks very promising.
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#34Or just use "techcrunch". I don't think they've announced there yet...
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#35Basic functionality works really well.
I find it a bit unsatisfying that when I search for an artist, that's not what I hear because the station's likely moved to the next thing. I understand what's happening, but I don't get what I want.
Do you do any clustering yet? The list of results is sort of a "big pile", and after I pick one, I'd like expect to see related/also-would-like stations. Especially if it's not immediately "good".
Also, need to fix the Back button.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Removed the alpha-numeric requirement.
Will you fix the flashblock thing? It might not be a problem to your target audience but (due to general abuse of Flash on the internet) I and many others keep it on all the time.
It's actually hard to do that - I ran into the same issue with a site I made. There is no good way to play sound in a browser except via flash.
So I used a hidden flash applet and triggered it via html events. But the flash itself was hidden since it didn't have a UI - it was just for playing sound.
Since it was hidden there was no way to click-active it for flash block people.
Maybe I could have put a message of some kind saying flash wasn't active, but it didn't seem worth the trouble. (In my case sound was nice, but not that critical.)
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#37Hey Llama, I've seen you guys before as I used to work for a competitor. Nice to see you moving in this direction. Unfortunately, the site isn't playing any music for me :( Are you limited(or limiting) play to just within the US? I tried about 7 different stations, and got nothing. Nice clean design though.
Play is probably per-station. Seems to work fine for me in .au.
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#38Is there a way to actually search for radio stations by name?
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#39Wow. It's like google for radio stations.
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#40Don't know if you're still monitoring this, but making me sign up for a new service in order to provide feedback on the site is unacceptable. I'm sure it saved you time not having to write feedback handling code, but I think this is a total loss.