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Show HN: A KEXP native macOS app (github.com)
3 points by idd2 89 days ago
One of my favorite ways to find and discover music these days is the radio station KEXP. It’s a public, independent radio station in Seattle where I grew up and they have DJs doing awesome shows all day and night. They play a ton of great music.

They have an official iOS app, but don’t have an official MacOS app or anything. I wrote myself an unofficial one that sits in the menubar though and displays current song info and has a few nice features around pause behavior/stream resumption and airplay. I borrowed a bunch of the logos/assets from the iOS app.

I’d love beta testers and any feedback people have!
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RF_Enthusiast 89 days ago
Many years ago, someone created an unauthorized app for a public radio station I worked at. We were overwhelmed with work, and we didn’t have time to build our own, and we didn’t have time to take it down. So we nervously let it stay up.

It turned out they were hijacking our donations. People thought they were donating to the station, but the app developer was pocketing the money. They may have made off with thousands. IIRC, someone needed a receipt for their taxes, and that’s how we found out.

I would consider removing the Spotify link. You’re sending listeners to their chief competitor.

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idd2 89 days ago
> It turned out they were hijacking our donations. People thought they were donating to the station, but the app developer was pocketing the money. They may have made off with thousands. IIRC, someone needed a receipt for their taxes, and that’s how we found out.

I have no plans to do this! The app here is open source, just created by a fan, and I'm not planning to profit off of it. In fact, I'd encourage anyone who uses to make a donation to KEXP Directly: http://kexp.org/

> I would consider removing the Spotify link. You’re sending listeners to their chief competitor.

One big reason to listen to a radio station which plays a variety of music is to be able to save and listen to it in the future. I think if you're listening to the KEXP stream, you probably also already have an Apple Music or Spotify subscription and are interested in finding new things to listen to on those services. It's also worth noting that the official KEXP iOS app links out to Spotify already for the given song.

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p_ing 89 days ago
It's really difficult to see the right click menu.
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idd2 89 days ago
Which right click menu is this? Could you open a github issue with a photo please?
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p_ing 88 days ago
I realized it was the gear icon that is rendering dark/black on a dark/black background of the app.
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