Show HN: I brought back a radio project I built 16 years ago

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Sixteen years ago, while I was a student, I built a Windows application for listening to internet radio stations. It ended up getting a surprisingly nice little community of users, but eventually life got in the way and I stopped working on it.A few months ago I started thinking about it again. Partly out of nostalgia, and partly because I still couldn t find a radio player that I liked using.So I decided to build it again from scratch, this time with the knowledge and experience I ve accumulated over the last 16 years.The result is nRadioBox: a web-based internet radio player with tens of thousands of stations. It is free, has no ads, doesn t require an account, and I deliberately don t track users.The part I m most interested in is not actually the player itself. There are plenty of good radio players already. I ve been manually organizing stations into themed collections based on how I personally think people might want to listen to them — things like Blues Club, I Love 90s, Hard Rock Party, Balkan Vibes, Ex-YU Classics, Gym Workout, etc.I m also experimenting with making radio discovery more interesting rather than just giving people a huge directory of stations.Technically, the current version is built with Rust and React. The original project was a Windows application, so rebuilding it as a web application has been an interesting change of perspective for me.There are still plenty of things I m not sure about, especially how much people actually want to discover radio stations rather than just search for a particular station.Anyway, this is the project:https://nradiobox.comI d be interested in feedback, particularly from people who listen to internet radio: what would make you actually use something like this instead of the radio apps/services you already use?

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