Re: [Muine] iRadio mockup

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 11:32 -0700, Link Dupont wrote:
> 
> 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.

My idea for the "Play Station" button would be opening a station
chooser, but with the currently loaded station selected. We avoid one
layer of complexity to the user that way. 

> 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.

This seems to get stations listings from somewhere, we can have a look
at their code ;)


Jorn