World Radio Player

A player for Internet radio stations on Firefox OS.

Usage

Install it from

Development

Checkout this repository and install/use via the Firefox OS Simulator.

You will need Node.js and a version of Make to build this app. Also lessc, curl and zip on the command line.

To start developing, run:

$ make build-tools
$ make

To create an application.zip file:

$ make zip

Known issues / roadmap

• Only OGG streams are supported at the moment.
• Operations involving IndexedDB tage ages...
• Stream download is not stopped when station is stopped.
• Playback may stop when song changes.
• Playback stops but stream download continues when app is minimized.
• Need to improve responsiveness on first app start.
• Network status is not shown for playing station ( buffering/playing/etc. ).
• Playback interruptions due to new metadata are not handled properly and may cause problems when switching playing stations.
• No song name shown for currently playing station.

About

Author, contributors

• Emilis Dambauskas emilis.d@gmail.com.
• Jerzy Kozera.

Thanks

• Fabrice Desré for b2gremote and help with Firefox OS simulator.
• Thomas B. Ruecker for getting the list of stations from http://dir.xiph.org/.
• Marketplace Reviewers for reviewing the app before my presentation.

License

World Radio Player
Copyright (C) 2013 Emilis Dambauskas, emilis.d@gmail.com

World Radio Player is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

World Radio Player is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.