Back in the Groove

Um... yeah, it's been a while since I wrote much of anything around here. For now I'll simply blame writers block.  I've got lots to say but just haven't found the motivation to say it.  Spending more time doing than talking about it, I suppose.  So, in order to keep this particular train rolling, I selected an encouraging title in the hope that I could somehow get "Back on Track".  Unfortunately I already used that title -- this must be a recurring problem -- so I tweaked it a little.  I hope it works.

To get things started I'm just gonna post a picture or two of my current pet project, the ziptuner -- a tiny internet radio browser program for the zipit.  For just about forever I've wanted something to make it easier to acquire, try, and save internet radio station urls for my playlists on the zipit.  This is what I eventually came up with.  It's uses the nice clean http://www.radio-browser.info json API.

Here's the main screen.

Actually there's a few more choices now, but I'm too lazy to update the picture.

And here's the results of a Tag search for "disco".

Only 43 disco stations on the internet?  I find that hard to believe.

I'm truly impressed that someone -- more than one someone, actually -- found the need to devote a full 320Kbps to stream disco to the teeming masses on the internet.

Anyhow, that's it for now because it's still more fun to work on a project than to write about it.  So I'll try to revisit this page again when I run out of ideas.

Meanwhile openwrt packages are available in the usual place.

And here's an iz2s build:  ziptuner-iz2s.zip 

And a  ziptuner quick demo video