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by gcb0 4650 days ago
ah. that made me sad. i thought it was a telnet or something emulator into the actual service. But it's just a html/js shenanigans :(

I'd like the actual service to be a command line via telnet or other established protocol, so i can automate it via cron, arduino buttons and what not the cool kids use today.
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seldo 4650 days ago
How would you expect the audio to be delivered in a service you accessed via telnet?
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gcb0 4650 days ago
no. I thought the service gave you a audio stream URL and then via telnet/etc you could control what was dumped into that steam.

I thought the site was just a convenient way to demo it all together by already opening the steam in an audio html tag or something and exposing the console api on the same page.

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debaserab2 4650 days ago
Just curious - what would be desirable about an actual telnet service that does this? You seem disappointed that it wasn't that, but I'm struggling to understand the advantages.
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gcb0 4647 days ago
integration.

if you had telnet/rest or any other standardly documented access point, I could schedule stations with a cron script. Have a hardware button with an arduino. The sky is the limit.

The way it is now, it's just a toy. nothing other than a slightly more inconvenience to use than pandora. it doesn't really add anything different. Well i could emulate keystrokes and expose an API myself, but then i could already do that emulating mouseclicks in pandora anyway.

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