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Notes from the workshop
How the player works, and why it works that way.
· 4 min read
Two thirds of internet radio still is not secure — here is what we do about it
We measured the catalogue: 66% of stations broadcast over plain HTTP, which a secure website cannot play. Filtering them out would have deleted most of European radio.
· 3 min read
Why the player never shows a spinner
A spinner claims progress it has not measured. We built the connection animation so that its duration is the connection, which means it cannot lie.
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What we deliberately left out of the web player
Recording, the equalizer, and Chromecast are all in the Android app and none are here. In each case the web version would have worked for some stations and not others.