Re: [Muine] iRadio mockup

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Viet Yen Nguyen wrote:
> This is indeed a good evolution on that of Links. However, I can imagine
> that users oftenly want to play stations that they have listened to
> before. Therefore, keeping this in mind, a radio application would need
> to be build around the concept of a historical notion of already
> listened stations. 
>
> It would be nice to show the history of played stations when the users
> pressed the "Play Station" button. It seems that we are on the right
> track to an usable radio application :)
Yea I've thought about this. What exactly should the "Play Station" 
button do? Open up a dialog to pick a new station? Or start playing to 
currently open station? If the former, then we'd need a "Play current 
station" button or something simliar. I think this is where I was going 
with the seperate "Play" button and "New station" button. The "Play" 
button plays the currently loaded station, and the "New station" button 
opens a dialog to pick and load a different station. Hell we could even 
check and see if the user has a rhythmbox iradio playlist and import it 
automagically. ;) If the dialog contains different stations, we'd need a 
way of adding them, as well as keeping the station URIs up-to-date. As 
mirrors come and go. Shoutcast.com has a big listing of stations. 
Perhaps an amazon-style getting of playlists (instead of images) could 
be achieved? Maybe only performed on user request by having an "Update 
stations" menu item.
One application that may come in handy when brainstorming this iRadio 
app is streamtuner[1]. Its UI is attrocious, but its got some nice 
fundamental streaming music concepts.

1: http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/
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