Campus FM
Consumer and social
radio streaming
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
16 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 43 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 3 againstPerformance: 4 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast, snappy station switching from background caching.
From 3 comments
It caches the streams in background so the station changes are instantaneous, no need to wait for buffering. I've been toying with this idea for some time, but never really…
exitb on HNThis is awesome, feels super snappy. I miss living in a place with good indie radio, this is hitting the spot.
Mizza on HNReally snappy! Well done.
bluesquare9 on HN
Good idea for discovering college radio.
From 2 comments
Love the idea! I was in my Uni's radio station and it was such a blast. I made some great friends, had some great times, and learned a ton. Our "chief engineers" were fantastic…
jjice on HNA great idea. If you're ever in a strange city in a rental car, and want to find a radio station: look between 88 and 92 on the FM dial. That range is reserved for non-profit…
Cupertino95014 on HN
Objections
Station selection UI is unintuitive and hard to use.
From 3 comments
I wasn’t sure how to get back to the listen to this station page from the “these are the stations I want the option of listening to page” Took me a bit to figure out clear all…
liketochill on HNA 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…
creeble on HNReally great work! It might also be cool to have a config that allows for non-cached streams; that way it would allow for "browsing" any of the available streams, rather than…
duderific on HN
Background stream caching may use lots of bandwidth on mobile.
From 2 comments
Works great, however the speed at which it can switch from one radio to another suggest they may be receiving all streams while playing just the selected one. That would…
squarefoot on HNA 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…
creeble on HN
Requests
Add more stations, especially European and international ones.
From 3 comments
Where are the European university stations?
kensai on HNi was thinking european stations (can think of a few from my home country, portugal)
rmvt on HNnit: should've clarified it's US stations only
rmvt on HN
Show song title history.
From 1 comment
It would be nice if the song titles history was listed so it is possible to figure out what song you just listened to. See Soma.fm for an example. Might be difficult if that info…
rapjr9 on HN
Allow browsing non-cached streams beyond the preset list.
From 1 comment
Really great work! It might also be cool to have a config that allows for non-cached streams; that way it would allow for "browsing" any of the available streams, rather than…
duderific on HN
Questions
How the default station list was chosen.
From 1 comment
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…
nluken on HN
Where the station list came from.
From 1 comment
This is neat. I'm curious where you got the list of stations. I try to keep a list of them, as most of them accept indie music submissions.
pg5 on HN
Alternatives named
radio.garden
From 1 comment
Also see: https://radio.garden
notRobot on HN
Audials
From 1 comment
I use Audials for internet radio. Audials has many, if not all, of these stations listed, it has mobile apps, and can cast to Chromecast devices.
Zigurd on HN
Shortwave (GNOME) using radio-browser.info
From 1 comment
Similarly, there is Shortwave for Gnome users. It pulls its list of stations from www.radio-browser.info.
nicolaslem on HN