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Re: Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations

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Post by floren »

erichlee wrote: post #15
nluken wrote: post #12

Love this. Curious how you chose the default 8 stations? This is obviously super nitpicky but WERS deserves the Boston spot over WHRB IMO. Yeah, Emerson isn't exactly a powerhouse school, but their radio station is a legitimate player in a major radio market in a way that most college radio stations (Harvard's included) aren't. Definitely more important in Boston than WHRB is. That aside, I'll two stations to your li…

First four-ish were my favorites when I was building this, and the rest were pretty arbitrary (though I favored streams that were more reliable on more platforms). I actually like WERS better than WHRB; will switch them on the next push :)

I was pleasantly surprised to see KUNM on the list!

Re: Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations

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Post by erichlee »

rmvt wrote: post #16
erichlee wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has University of Cologne and a bunch of Canadian stations! Are there any other international college stations you'd like to see on it? I've mostly been adding stations from user requests, and most of them have been in the US.

i was thinking european stations (can think of a few from my home country, portugal)

If you send me some callsigns for Portuguese college stations, I would be happy to add them :)

Re: Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations

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Post by foolproofplan »

nluken wrote: post #12

Love this. Curious how you chose the default 8 stations? This is obviously super nitpicky but WERS deserves the Boston spot over WHRB IMO. Yeah, Emerson isn't exactly a powerhouse school, but their radio station is a legitimate player in a major radio market in a way that most college radio stations (Harvard's included) aren't. Definitely more important in Boston than WHRB is. That aside, I'll two stations to your li…

had a show on WRBB back in the day too! what a great experience :)

Re: Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations

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Post by creeble »

A little lost on the interface on iPad.

There is no search button. When I select Add (+), I can search, but when I select from the search results, nothing plays - it seems to add it to some list, but any controls to actually make it play are either off screen or... something.

I’d like to be able to just search & play. The background loading of multiple streams is only useful if switching a lot, but on mobile it is a bandwidth-buster.

Re: Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations

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Post by [deleted] »

creeble wrote: post #27

A little lost on the interface on iPad. There is no search button. When I select Add (+), I can search, but when I select from the search results, nothing plays - it seems to add it to some list, but any controls to actually make it play are either off screen or... something. I’d like to be able to just search & play. The background loading of multiple streams is only useful if switching a lot, but on mobile it is a…

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Re: Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations

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Post by erichlee »

creeble wrote: post #27

A little lost on the interface on iPad. There is no search button. When I select Add (+), I can search, but when I select from the search results, nothing plays - it seems to add it to some list, but any controls to actually make it play are either off screen or... something. I’d like to be able to just search & play. The background loading of multiple streams is only useful if switching a lot, but on mobile it is a…

Sounds like I need to work on the UI for switching stations!

The search results let you add new stations to a queue, but they're not playable until you press "Reload Stations" on the modal—which isn't obvious or intuitive. At the very least I can add some instructions for loading new stations.

I've also explored adding a drag and drop interface, but that's a little trickier than search (technically and design-wise). Will need to think more about it. Thanks for the feedback!

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