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Not today but we're planning some radical changes to the music data we rely upon which should open it up to Apple Music, Deezer and beyond!

Interesting! I've never actually thought about that! Very clever!

If it was launched from the alarm it could start the show with "Gooood morning, looks like it's going to be <insert weather> and <insert some info about traffic on your usual route>, now let's get to the reason we're both here; great tunes." or something.

Ahh so fake ads! That'd be neat actually! Going to work on that over the weekend :) TY

Chromecast support is a gigantic pain to implement! But I 100% agree it'd be excellent to have it!

Maybe it's gotten easier since I last checked in on it

The bottom of the settings screen has a 'buy me a coffee' link but I'm equally happy if you're using it and enjoying it!

Or if you have feature requests please send them my way! Those are worth an awful lot :)

This is literally my dream for the service. A personal GTA radio station. I'm entirely all ears if you have any suggestions on how to pull that off!

The app has a built-in link to 'Buy me a coffee' (which actually does cover my coffee expenses along with some of the hosting costs!)

I'm quite keen to get a bigger community of people contributing ideas and maybe give me the push to move away from Spotify.

Eventually, swathes of the service could go open source too if the community wanted it.

Thanks for joining the discord!

Damn it! Thought I'd fixed this. Back to that micro service I go :(

Thanks for using and for the bug report!

I've got plans to build my own "open music API" that'll make whatever service you use just an adaptor that Rad can tap into. At the moment Radiant is very embedded in Spotify's API ecosystem due to a few key features none of the other services has.

Longer term thing sadly as this is very much my side deal but it'll get there.

Probably make that new API and dataset OSS as I want other devs to build cool stuff without being at the mercy of the streaming services.

If anyone is interested in learning more, suggesting stuff or getting support etc I've set up a discord that I've done a frankly appalling job of promoting -> https://discord.gg/4YgkhAgfJ5

Also having something I'm passionate about gives me a lot of purpose. I've obviously up-skilled tremendously building (and then rebuilding it for cross-platform) but above all else, it's a lot of fun to build and it's something I personally wanted to see in the world and enjoy using!

Yep. That's not good... thanks for the offer, if you could shoot over an email to rad@getradiant.app and I'll get whatever broken fixed this weekend and released by Monday.

The major advancements in text-to-speech we've since in the last year have me planning on revamping Rad's voice (maybe basing it on Tom Sellek...who knows) but the fact we've come this far has really opened a world of opportunities for audio-first experiences.

I know it's a bit of a laundry list. Everything there is required to use the Spotify API the way I needed to. Playlist read/write so it can add songs you like to the 'Liked on Radiant on Spotify', Profile to set your locale when making requests and for setting your profile picture if you have one etc etc.

I'll look at paring it back in future if I can!

Weird its in french. Thats all controlled by Spotify which suggests your Spotify is set to french. Might be worth checking to see if your Spotify is being accessed anywhere else...

Yep, the idea is that the stream of music it plays is both time appropriate and always relatively fresh. You can tune its selection algo too with the thumbs up or down (long pressing on either for more fine controls).

Web is due out in the next 2 weeks. Alexa skill has been on the roadmap forever as I've always seen smart speakers as like the place it makes the most sense.

The apps are Svelte based with capacitor (planning on switching to Tauri when that gets proper mobile support) and some custom plugins for the native stuff. It was a native iOS app but got a full rewrite to support Android and iOS with the web planned as a fast follow.

That's exactly what is coming next for it! A fully-fledged web app. It's actually built using web tech so it's an easy port. Just need to rebuild some of the native bits for web (ohh I might get to use wasm!) but once that's done it should be good to go. Planning on pushing out in the next 2 weeks.

And yeah while I don't need to run ads on it at the moment, if the right sponsor wanted to work with me I'd be exceptionally happy to do so.

Radiant: https://getradiant.app/

Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio presenter called Rad.

Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music while playing all the songs you know and love, in a smart, contextual way.

Availability: iOS, Android.

Price: $0

Cost to me: like 40-50 bucks a month.

Why do it? I use it daily and so do many others. Great for house parties, offices, long car journeys or just your daily pilgrimage to the supermarket.

Auto-define exports of native properties for a child widget. This should be posted as an issue on the Svelte core repo. It would save a ton of time building components!

Now that Kit 1.0 is out the door the team can turn their attention back to Svelte proper so now is the time.

This coming from a company that decimates its long-standing developer ecosystem at every available opportunity under the guise of security and licensing restrictions.

At least Apple lets people build apps for its platform in a relatively open way whilst also allowing for monetisation. Reap what you sow.

Recently picked up one in the fire sale and did a bit of digging to see where root access and custom apps were at for it.

As of a couple of days ago, someone has doom running on it (because of course) and a basic custom web app running too.

Plenty of opportunity here given the solid hardware of the device!

This would be excellent as part of a hybrid solution. Dynamically switching between standard ground to air and satellite to accommodate availability and bandwidth constraints.

I've been doing a ton more work on Radiant -> https://getradiant.app/ this week (Takes Spotify and turns it into a personal live Radio station complete with an artificial DJ).

Currently adding more hyperlocal live music capabilities related to your music preferences to the presenter's (Rad) skillset.

It's not open source but I'm very transparent about what stack it's using and how it works if anyone has any questions about it!

Where they got stung is the use of FFmpeg to transcode files. YouTube actually return an "InnerTube" key in the page response that can just be used to ask for the mp4 file of a video.

It's essentially exactly what the browser does when pulling in the video for playback. There is no manual decryption or anything of the sort involved.

Can attest to this personally and have heard first-hand accounts of this from others.

Either hire in-house or go with a reference when thinking about outsourcing HR services.

Others have been suggesting Libspotify still works for legacy embedded device reasons... https://github.com/mopidy/libspotify-archive seems to have Android and iOS builds.

Permanent. Spotify doesn't want apps streaming music through anything other than Spotify's own walled experience for a number of seemingly financial reasons others have highlighted here.

There were tons of unofficial clients, mostly open source efforts as Spotify didn't allow for any monetizable components in apps so it never made much sense to build a business off the back of it.

You're not wrong. But if Spotify doesn't want to allow developers to be lab rats for wild and whacky ideas that are too risky for them to try themselves but could eventually either become or reveal the next big thing, they're leaving themselves wide open to major disruption.

But you can't legally build music apps atop YouTube/YouTube music from what I can see.