Radio stations yay or nay?

[ravachol]

Should radio be included in kew or would that be seen as bloat? It wouldn't need a lot of code to add. I have a prototype of kew with radio search similar to the current search function. I'm using it. File size remains under 1MB.

[ravachol]

@xplshn @Chromium-3-Oxide what do you guys think?

[nikolasdmtr]

It is the only thing I thought was missing when I first tried kew. Radio is tag-based, no?

[ravachol]

Yes the radio stations have tags.

[nikolasdmtr]

Oh, radio stations! I thought "radio" mode, where you choose a song and get a playlist based that song's tags.

[ravachol]

No, a tagging system is not happening. :D

[nikolasdmtr]

No worries, I am happy with kew as is. Radio stations I am for.

[xplshn]

I think support for HLS would be great, not necessarily m3u/streaming, for example, if you download a stream, and play it back at the same time, you should experience no issues so long as you buffer each chunk correctly. I think this would be best, rather than adding libCURL or some other big dependency.

[ravachol]

Thank you for your input, xplshn. The libCurl is for searching an online db of stations and might not be needed.

[SpaceCheeseWizard]

This would be internet radio, right? I'd love for that to be an option.

On a similar note, i'd love for a way to connect to SirusXM stations but I have yet to find something available for linux so I have to assume it would not be possible.

[ravachol]

Thank you for sponsoring kew! I :) have to do something that is not restricted by patents and so on.