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.
- Reduced Icecast burst-size from 64KB to 8KB to minimize buffer accumulation
- Fixed spectrum analyzer to only create MediaElementSource once
- Added resetSpectrumAnalyzer() function to allow reconnection
- Prevent now-playing info updates when stream is paused across all players:
* Player page
* Front page
* Pop-out player
* Frame player
* Admin page
- After pause >10s, reconnect stream and reinitialize spectrum analyzer
- Preserves spectrum analyzer functionality after pause/unpause
- Eliminates stuttering and buffer accumulation issues
- Add pop-out player window (400x300px) with auto-reconnect on stream errors
- Add queue reordering with up/down buttons in admin panel
- Add 'Load Queue from M3U' functionality
- Remove Play/Stream buttons from track management
- Fix Liquidsoap audio quality issues:
- Remove ReplayGain and compression to prevent pulsing
- Change reload_mode to 'seconds' to prevent playlist exhaustion
- Reduce crossfade to 3 seconds
- Add audio buffering settings for stability
- Add auto-reconnect logic for both front page and pop-out players
- Add missing query variable in filterTracks() function
- Reads value from track-search input field
- Bug was pre-existing, not introduced by refactoring
- Add /api/asteroid/partial/now-playing-inline endpoint for inline text
- Refactor admin.js to use server-side partial (removes 23 lines of JSON/XML parsing)
- Fix hardcoded path in convert-to-docker-path to use *music-library-path* variable
- Consistent with front-page and player refactoring from upstream
- Improves portability and reduces client-side JavaScript complexity
- 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
- Converted 15 API endpoints from define-page to define-api
- Added JSON API format configuration for proper JSON responses
- Updated all frontend JavaScript files to use new API URLs
- Maintained define-page for HTML pages and static file serving
- Added comprehensive documentation of changes
Benefits:
- Framework compliance with Radiance best practices
- Automatic routing at /api/asteroid/<name>
- Clean lambda-list parameter handling
- Built-in browser/API dual usage support
- Proper HTTP status codes for errors
All API endpoints tested and working correctly.
Glenn Thompson
Luis Pereira