The Future of Online Radio

Discussion in 'Websites' started by Joao Bandeira, Jul 18, 2023.

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    Even though you can find plenty of websites to listen to radio online, I've always found them very poor (UI/UX is terrible), and I doubt they have good coding practices - tech stack is many times outdated. We want to solve this and bring you a new way to listen to online radio for free, bringing new technologies and focusing on the user.

    Please let us know what you think! https://www.myradioglobal.com/
     
    Joao Bandeira, Jul 18, 2023 IP
  2. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    I have limited experience of these kinds of sites.
    • RadioGarden where you pick from a globe
    • iheartradio which I think is just for New Zealand
    Years ago I used to enjoy listening to the morning show on London's JazzFm when I was working late - just did the mental arithmetic - more than 25 years ago? scary!

    The limitation of the two sites I've used is that you don't know what you'll get. If you pick a station and get a dud song, or the one misogynistic pedo host you won't necessarily return. We have a great student radio station - sometimes - like sometimes it's awesome new music, but sometimes it's genuine student trash. Your site let me search by genre but didn't expand on the station or what to expect. It's a big ask, but it's what your site needs.

    To make the claim that the UX is better I'd expect your site to let me like/dislike a station and have that influence the search order in future because the site knows which stations are similar and works out what the common thread is between the stations that I've liked so far.

    The HTML generated looks fine but you still have debugging info flowing into the console.
     
    sarahk, Jul 18, 2023 IP