- 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
- Add geo IP lookup for listener locations (ip-api.com)
- Add geo stats table with country flags to admin dashboard
- Fix listener stats table alignment with proper centering
- Fix Now Playing display to update without requiring audio playback
- Add caching for geo lookups to reduce API calls
- Add database schema for listener snapshots, sessions, and aggregates
- Implement background polling of Icecast admin XML stats
- Add API endpoints for current, daily, and geo stats
- Add listener stats section to admin dashboard with auto-refresh
- GDPR compliant: IP hashing, data retention cleanup
- 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.
- Change audio player background from #1a1a1a to #1a2332
- Matches the blue-grey color used throughout the app
- Addresses Fade's feedback about brownish grey appearance
- Change track link colors: cyan default, green hover, blue visited
- Add equal left/right padding (12px) to track-list for centered separators
- Increase track-item top/bottom padding from 6px to 10px for better spacing
- Move track-list and track-item inside recently-played-list block for proper CSS nesting
- Addresses feedback from easilok on symmetry and breathing room
- Move track-link styles inside recently-played-list block for proper CSS nesting
- Use (:and .track-link :hover) at correct nesting level per LASS documentation
- Fixes hover color change to green when mousing over track names
- Generates correct CSS selector: .recently-played-list .track-link:hover
- Replace separate MusicBrainz link with clickable track name
- Add external link icon next to track name
- Simplify grid layout by removing track-meta column
- Update CSS styling for track-link with hover effects
- Improves UX by making the primary action (clicking track) more intuitive
- Use 2-column grid layout: track/artist left, time/link right
- Match color scheme with now-playing section (blue text)
- Tighter row spacing (6px padding)
- Simplified MusicBrainz search query (no field prefixes)
- Fix CSS selector for proper link styling
- Right-align time and MusicBrainz link
- Display last 3 played tracks on front page
- Auto-updates every 30 seconds
- Shows track title, artist, and time ago
- Links to MusicBrainz search for each track
- Thread-safe in-memory storage
- Works in both normal and frameset modes
- Hacker-themed green styling
Implements feature request from fade to show recently played tracks
with linkage to track info at music database.
- Queue management section with add/remove/clear controls
- Add to Queue button on each track in library browser
- Search tracks and add to queue
- Add 10 random tracks button
- Live stream monitor with Now Playing display
- Toast notifications for user feedback
- Real-time queue updates
- Increased auth-form max-width from 400px to 600px to match site styling
- Reduced form-group margin-bottom from 3rem to 1.5rem for better spacing
- Added display:none to error/success message boxes by default
- Message boxes now only show when server sets display-error/display-success
- Add registration page with form validation
- Add login/register/logout navigation with conditional display
- Add auth-status API endpoint for session checking
- Add auth-ui.js for dynamic nav based on login state
- Update navigation across all pages (front, admin, profile, player)
- Style logout button with subtle red color
- Auto-login after successful registration
- Created profile.chtml template with listening statistics, recent tracks, and top artists
- Added profile.js for dynamic data loading and user interactions
- Extended LASS styles for profile-specific elements (artist stats, track items, activity charts)
- Implemented /profile route with authentication and template rendering
- Added profile API endpoints for user data, stats, recent tracks, and top artists
- Added profile link to main navigation
- Includes placeholder functionality for future listening metrics implementation
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are still kind of aggressively unpleasant (to me), but I'm hesitant to
change due to fear of comitting visual violence to people with normal
colour vision. :)
- Fix database query syntax for RADIANCE hash table returns
- Handle RADIANCE field storage format (lists instead of strings)
- Configure r-simple-sessions module for session management
- Update login page styling to match main site theme
- Implement working authentication with admin/asteroid123
- Add proper error handling and debug logging
- Ensure session persistence and redirects work correctly
- Add live streaming with Icecast2 and Liquidsoap integration
- Fix track streaming endpoints with proper RADIANCE database queries
- Implement music library management with metadata extraction
- Add web player interface with HTML5 audio controls
- Fix admin panel functionality for file management
- Create playlist system for continuous radio broadcasting
- Add live stream URL to web interface
- Support MP3 streaming at 128kbps with proper audio processing
- Enable network access for internal radio broadcasting
- Add comprehensive README.org documentation
- Create start/stop scripts for service management
- Use secure random password for streaming authentication
- Fixed compile-styles function to properly use lass:compile-and-write
- LASS now generates CSS dynamically on server startup
- Removed dependency on static CSS files
- Added LASS-IMPLEMENTATION-NOTES.org documenting the fix
- Server now compiles LASS to CSS automatically on startup
- All styling preserved with proper LASS integration
Glenn Thompson
Luis Pereira
Brian O'Reilly