- Separate Channel selector (Curated/Shuffle) from Quality selector (bitrate)
- Add channel selector to frame player, front page, and popout player
- Dynamic curated channel name from playlist #PHASE: metadata
- Channel selection syncs across all player contexts via localStorage
- Quality selector disabled when Shuffle channel selected (fixed bitrate)
- Fix reconnectStream to use channel-aware config
- Consistent CSS styling for selector heights
- Add shuffle source to Liquidsoap config (96kbps MP3)
- Add shuffle option to all UI quality selectors (frame, popout, front page)
- Make now-playing APIs mount-aware for correct metadata display
- Implement separate recently-played lists for curated vs shuffle streams
- Speed up now-playing and recently-played refresh on stream change
- Fix clean shutdown of stats polling thread (positional timeout arg)
- Widen quality selector dropdown for shuffle label
- Detect when browser pauses muted stream (throttling)
- Auto-reconnect after 3 seconds when paused while muted
- Apply to all three players for consistency
- Implement isReconnecting flag to prevent duplicate reconnect attempts
- Add exponential backoff for error retries (3s, 6s, 12s, max 30s)
- Retry indefinitely until stream returns
- Handle error, stalled, and ended events consistently
- Reset state on successful playback
- Apply same logic to frame player, popout player, and front-page player
- Add reconnect button (🔄) to frameset player bar
- Recreate audio element on reconnect to fix wedged MediaElementSource
- Properly close and reinitialize AudioContext for spectrum analyzer
- Preserve volume and muted state when reconnecting
- Show status messages for connection issues
- Reduce Now Playing update interval to 5 seconds
- Add front-page.js to player-content.ctml for Now Playing updates
- Create About pages (about.ctml and about-content.ctml)
- Add About link to navigation in both modes
Major Changes:
- Convert all JavaScript files to Parenscript for better maintainability
- Move spectrum-analyzer to parenscript/ directory structure
- Add parenscript-utils.lisp for shared utilities
- Convert admin.js, player.js, front-page.js, auth-ui.js to Parenscript
- Convert profile.js, users.js, recently-played.js to Parenscript
Stream Reconnect Fixes (from merged PR):
- Add reset-spectrum-analyzer function to properly clean up Web Audio API
- Implement reconnect logic for pauses longer than 10 seconds
- Detect stale audio in 'playing' event and force stream reconnection
- Prevent 'Now Playing' updates while stream is paused
- Reduce reconnect delay to 200ms for faster response
- Add proper spectrum analyzer reset/reinit during reconnection
UX Improvements:
- Change live indicator from blink to smooth pulse (2s ease-in-out)
- Pulse animation like old PowerBook/MacBook sleep indicator
- Add MUTED indicator to spectrum analyzer when audio is muted
- Spectrum continues to flow even when muted (data still streaming)
- Red 'MUTED' text displayed in top-right corner of canvas
Technical Details:
- Parenscript files generate JavaScript via API endpoints
- All player modes updated: main player, front page, popout, frame player
- Improved audio context handling to only create once per element
- Added comprehensive error handling and logging
- Updated asteroid.asd to include parenscript module structure
Documentation:
- Updated all documentation dates to 2025-12-06
- Added PARENSCRIPT-EXPERIMENT.org documenting the conversion
- Updated PROJECT-HISTORY.org with Phase 9 (Visual Audio Features)
- Added comprehensive project statistics (408 commits, 9,300 LOC)
This conversion improves code maintainability by using Lisp throughout
the stack and makes it easier to share code between frontend and backend.
Glenn Thompson
Brian O'Reilly