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by clintmcmahon 5 days ago
A dashboard to see what my local commercial free radio station (89.3 The Current) in Minnesota is playing. It shows how often tracks are played, track and artist play history as well as some other fun lookups and visualizations.

https://theundercurrent.fm
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bokchoi 5 days ago
This is cool! I was sad to see that kexplorer.org site no longer exists. :( I've been thinking about getting something like this up for a small Seattle station space101fm.org.
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clintmcmahon 3 days ago
Yeah, me too. KEXP has a public facing API that could be easily used to create a new KEXPlorer.
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roygbiv2 4 days ago
Very interesting! How does it work?
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clintmcmahon 3 days ago
The main worker is a .Net API with Hangfire that hits a public facing API from the radio station. That data is stored in a MySQL database that feeds a React dashboard front end.

There's some caching that happens behind the scenes to help with some of the large data crunching.

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