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pyrate-radio

Work is progressing nicely. I wrote a DAD browser component in three hours, I think. It lets you search on artist and title in the DAD database.

Yesterday, I realized that at the radio they also need a way to play temporary audio, like something they just mixed for one show only.

So we set up an SMB/NFS share on one of the servers, and I wrote a different browser, a file browser, just for this. It took me about 15 minutes. Python really really rocks for fast GUI development.

So now they can both browse our digital audio database, as well as one temp space directory, and drag and drop files to a player. It looks like this.

In the end, if the player is done, it can also be integrated in one big application windows, and we can drop the window manager completely. It will just be the full-screen pyrate-radio application.

pyrate-radio Work is progressing nicely. I wrote a DAD browser component in three hours, I think. It lets you search on artist and title in the DAD database. Yesterday, I...