Where did you get the name?

The idea of the name first came about while reading a scifi novel with my girlfriend. The novel XYZ written by the Peruvian Clemente Palma tells a story about a scientist who’s aim is to bring artificial beings to life using radiation (get it?…radio… meh U_U ).

Thats all nice, but…what does it do?

XYZRadio is an application that allows music streaming from a central server (your home computer for example) to a web browser client on another computer(your work computer for example). The application will have several features to allow a group of people to enjoy the same music while they are at a single place (your office for example). While in “sharing mode” the app will choose users for a limited amount of time to become the groups “DJ”. The DJ will then choose the songs everyone will hear until his turn is over. XYZRadio will choose the next DJ by round robin or by using a system of credits (given to the DJ’s if the others like their songs).

So…How does it work?

You really wanna know? :S ….well, it uses the new Cappuccino framework for the client side. The player it self is created using a wrapper of the SoundManager JS API using Objective-J. Altho the server side is not yet complete, it uses Java as its core technology. This will allow the server to be run on any type of computer.

Is it ready?

No. Not yet.