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Nice concept. I was surprised to see it using HTML5 audio which was nice. Do you know how that affects the play count on SoundCloud? If you're using your own player instead of an embed do the artists lose out on the play?

Feature request: It would be nice if I could log in with my SoundCloud account and have the option to like tracks from your site.

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Yeah I had to roll out my own player for performance purposes. I have no idea, but since this is stream I think it just counts as a play?

> Feature request: It would be nice if I could log in with my SoundCloud account and have the option to like tracks from your site.

Probably won't happen since that would need a backend, and I want this to be a client side only app. FWIW I link to SC track so people can like, share, download, buy the track.

user sessions would get picked up by if you just injected the oembed player dom rather than hand-rolling it (https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/oembed) - no authentication required.

In the initial versions, I was using SC's own widget, but it was not performant and looked nasty.

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