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I'm basically batting 1000 for never getting anyone to answer my questions or address my concerns here on RP, but I guess I'll try again. Regarding this new layout change, I am still unable to see any track information (for example, the date when the song was posted, the length, the band name, song name, the lyrics, the band info, etc.) on the Radio Paradise app. I'm using an Android phone (Moto G Stylus 2024). When I click on the song image that's currently playing and it takes me to the page with the band info, song info, listener comments, everything is blacked out, except for the images for the song. Scrolling down the page, it's all black until I see an image of the band/artist, but no band info (blacked out). I continue scrolling down, then thankfully, the comments show up. It's like half of the page is redacted!
I'm a long-time listener and supporter (since 2007) and I've always preferred using the phone app. Is there anyone looking into this?
A few days ago I noticed that the song info, in RP app, is making some errors. Namely, the song info + lyrics + artist bio has blackened text, while the comments can be read. So today I've deinstalled the app, installed it again, and the same error persists + there is another error: there is no My Paradise option in cache block downloads.
Any info would be appreciated.
Best regards,
C.
P.S.
Now I see that even the Profile page on the website has changed: all I see is profile picture, no other info whatsoever?! Wow, I guess there are some big changes going on on the site ATM.
P.P.S.
Another error I'm seeing now, also in RP app: after downloading a cache block and start playing music, the main page does not have an indicator that I've already rated a song, but when I click on the song and check the song info page the rating is there.
Weird. Nothing similar ever happened, and I've been around here for quite some time. Hoping that RP Tech Squad will sort these problems soon.
I really miss the artist info on the song page. I hope all that will come back, along with track length and other albums/songs (that feature hasn't worked for quite a long time). TBH, I would prefer less "pretty" and more "useful" in page design.
(Mac, Chrome) If I'm playing music, the tab shows the song. If I've just come to RP and haven't hit Play, it shows the page title.
I'm on Windows: Chrome. I'm playing music through my Alexa devices, but I keep the website open on my PC for the playlist. It used to give me the song in the tab title even without playing music through the site. If I'm doing something on another browser tab, it's great to be able to see at a glance. I would never have thought to request that as a feature, but since it always used to be the case, I see now how much I relied on it. It seems like something easy to overlook when redesigning the site, but if it's easy to reinstate, I hope it happens.
Are you bringing back the currently playing song title in the browser tab title (instead of the page title, which is there now)? I found that so useful for a quick glance.
I'd post a screenshot, but I don't have anywhere to upload it to provide a link.
(Mac, Chrome) If I'm playing music, the tab shows the song. If I've just come to RP and haven't hit Play, it shows the page title.
Thank you for the latest version with multi-column. There are still a number of issues.
The ScrollToRefresh popup (when the song changes and the comments have been moved) is quite clumsy. Refresh should simply be a button. The lock icon was fine...why change it? Add a caption for clarity.
Slide show still doesn't work in Vivaldi/Win11. Song info displays, but no show just black screen.
Are you bringing back the currently playing song title in the browser tab title (instead of the page title, which is there now)? I found that so useful for a quick glance.
I'd post a screenshot, but I don't have anywhere to upload it to provide a link.
NOW PLAYING
BODYSCANNER
UCHE YARA
BODYSCANNER RELEASED: 1963 LENGTH: 2:34
Avg. 5.6(176)
Is this a problem with the song info? NO
The song that was released in 1963 and is 2:34 was the Pink Panther Theme by Henry Mancini. If I'm on the playlist page and have scrolled down in the Bio section, it doesn't update when the song changesâthis is good! That's a fix to a complaint from years ago where you're reading, the song ends, and the text switches to the new song before you're done. But it's really weird to look over and see the now playing album art and info except for that one line has updated. It's fine that it's updating, but can you make it catch that release date also?
Is there any way to access settings in the slide show with the new design?
I am not fond of the zooming feature, and I like to see the artist - song name on the slide show as well.
On the Roku player with the KFAT channel, the currently-playing song details advances once for each two (?) track plays. This makes it hard to rate songs. You have to remember how well you liked the song as the place to rate gets further and further behind.
- Text size on user profile page (especially comments / forums) is too small. (I find that page's layout to be a bit frustrating, but that's personal preference.)
- Clicking the Play icon in the footer takes you to the Now Playing page in addition to starting the stream. In the past, you could stay on the same page and play/pause.
William, being able to skip songs is a nice feature that I use from time to time. Sometimes I accidentally skip two when I meant to skip only one. Can RP add a few seconds of reversibility to each such multi-skip, to allow recovery. Ten seconds of recovery time would be more than adequate. Thanks.
That's an interesting thought... sort of like gmail and MS mail giving you a few seconds to un-send that typo. It might be allowable where actually backing up and playing a song again is not.
William, being able to skip songs is a nice feature that I use from time to time. Sometimes I accidentally skip two when I meant to skip only one. Can RP add a few seconds of reversibility to each such multi-skip, to allow recovery. Ten seconds of recovery time would be more than adequate. Thanks.
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Hi Radio Paradise Team,
I once supported, but now I created an account in order to express my disappoint with the new website interface.
I agree with you on the fact that a website is like a dress.
Infact, when I first landed on your site I was genuinly enthusiast and surprised from the simpliness, the nudity and the soberness of it, that immediately suggested to me I was in front of something that was not commercial, but clearly more authentic and RARE. I instantly noticed that I had found for the first time a site with ONLY GOOD MUSIC, song after song, that I never found on other stream platforms, but also PERFECT spacing between every window, without wasting NOTHING of the available space. To complete the interface: zero ads, zero futile and unecessary things, and ALL of the function on the only and 1 directly and always visible page.
There were only the useful and good things. 100% pragmatic and focused toward the usability (so the user) in order to valorise the content (so the song), and I really appreciated it. In this sense, you were going in third plane, or better to say, as man-in-the-middle, like a messenger of the gods, that connect the user directly to the Heavenly Music of your choice, thanks to your work.
All was perfectly calculated in armony for the best visualizing possible, showing everything without being excessively oversaturated with information, thanks to the minimal design choice. Despite other âminimal sitesâ that underline the ahestethic fact that their are âminimal designâ leaving big empty spaces between items on the site, you were perfectly embody the real meaning of it = utilising only things needed for a better experience, leaving outside distractions that worsen the quality of the experience.
That was really dressed like Steve Jobs, and infact it has been an absolute pragmatic genius and he reached his success especially thanks to his way of thinking, being, and behaving out of the borders of conventionality, CHOOSING to not adhere or follow the whole existing market, but, instead, directly choosing to set new world trends of his choice. This is far more greater than today influencers and enterprises, that only follows âcomunicabilityâ=how much sell, so profit.
Radio Paradise site was, in this sense, not taking space for itself on the site. Doing the work for the love of the user and music. Real love, you know is always bi-directional. Thatâs the reason someone donate, everyone share the Radio with friends and enjoy the music, creating connections. For this reason I would had appreciated more clarity and communcation for the real motivations under this choice, that seems to me not simply a change of style, but more a little change in the phyloshophy of whole Radio Paradise project.
I am sure, that many people over the world would understand if there was an under economic needing, and support each of us how we can, so being a listener, I just wanted to say to not being scared of asking donations for example (if you really have to make changes) because we are really full of bad and full of advertising FREE music platforms, and they are not good at all. Somewhere you will pay and continue to have ads lol. So personally, I would prefer occasionally pay or donate a little for a (real) Premium music service, like you are, than having another free (but bad or full of ads and obstachles) streaming service. But please donât downgrade!
You never asked money, and I think that being a supporter-listener radio you have to invent new ways to attract people. If this new-gen commercial ahestethic is a first step in the direction of the commercial advertsing radio starting I would personally much more appreciate a thing like Wikipedia (always been free) that when canât keep up with the costs (because people really like their service but never really payed it), simply says: âhey there, we need money, can you donate please or we close, do you want us to close? Donate now please.â Personally I donât want you to close, so I personally would prefer (for example, if this is the case) a more proned to donation site, than gradually losing the inner animus of Radio Paradise, if this is what is starting to happen here.
- FEATURE REQUEST: I also critic all these different fonts, that have too much personality on their own. Some fonts are high-strecthed, others are large-strecthed, others are with-serif⦠this is chaos. The old simple minimal choice was not at all confusing. Simple. Less of design, more of real important art, the music itself that came out more.
- ISSUE: Also, the background on every mix is not fully visible but only in the top part, where is pixelated and it intherfhere (with the colors, the image) with the personality of the song playing, giving an added fixed tone that canât always match the song vibe. The previous interface was instead neutral. With these backgrounds, you canât really understand what is perfectly going on under there. They downgraded the readibility on the site: it is far more simple reading a white text on a black paper than a white text on a colorful painting.
- FEATURE REQUEST: these are not the only graphical downsides of this new version against the old one, for example: now, under the first horizontal line on the top of the site there is almost 3 centimeter of empty space.
- ISSUE: on my 1920x1080 screen, in a Firefox browser at 100% window, I see black lines at left and right. These disappear at 110% and increase going to 90% or less.
- ISSUE: in general, whole size of fonts is now HUGE and the readibility on the PC sucks compared to the previous interface. Everything is just too big. Going to 80%, as said before only increase side black bars and not improve the visualization/adds more things to screen.
- FEATURE REQUEST: why not giving us the possibility to choose on the PC website between old and new design? You would then being capable of really knowing the exact number of listeners that prefer the old or the new design and preferences.
On the smartphone site:
- I can only think that this is a move in order to prefer the service on the mobile over the website. In this case, the feature of the 3 separate clickable tabs is a perfect choice for the smartphone. The whole new site is looking much better on the phone (android), that really needs big fonts and simpliness of function.
- ISSUE: on the phone site, clicking on âCommentsâ it donât immediately shows the comments. Clicking two times, instead, solve the problem (with a laggy animation).
Answering another dude that writed: âwhy I need everything (comments, lyrics, info) on one page if I donât need all at once?â
1. because in this way you can access everything when you want simply looking at different part of the screen, without the needing of interacting with the mouse or keypad every time, every song. So you can basically do other things with the music in the background, and the site will give you all infos on one page. Perfect for big screens (PCs and TVs).
2. The right question is another one (think of the pages of a website like the pages of a book, or of a newspaper): why i have to fill and utilize multiple pages, enlarging spaces between items, if all the content is perfectly readeable and accessible in only one page, with a sober minimalist design that enhance and valorise the song and the album cover of it?
The fact is that now between me and the song, there is a very self-centered design, that claims attention in every language⦠This is not of my liking, because I theorically want the less possible obstachles from the music to my heart. The flac option, for example, is a reduction of an obstacle (the bad audio quality) that improved the overall experience.
Sorry for being too verbose and especially too rude in some points I writed straight without adjusting them. I love you and your music. So thank you anyways, even if you wonât make changes in the old direction. I really think the real problem was not the design at all but the impact and the greatness of the instant change of style redisigning and changing literally everything.
In football (soccer), there is a way of saying: ânever change a winning teamâ, so the reason I supposed that you are (financially) losing is because you literally changed everything lol.
I hope that in the case everything would not be again the same, so the old black simple interface would not came back :(, at least this message of BIG FULLY DISSAPPOINTING can make a counterpairt to it, considering that the disappointing I have for this new design is proportionally inversed to the APPRECIATION I had for the old design.
Sorry for bad english, Iâm not a native speaker.
A few weeks ago, at work, I became unable to hear RP streaming. The website works perfectly but no sound. Tried it on Chrome and Explorer. Same issue. I do work for the fed gov't and they block many sites but the website is not blocked just no sound. ?
I had to enable a new domain in my browser firewall. If *.stream is blocked for you by Uncle Sam, you may be SOL.
