Key Features
Tech Stack
What's new in 2.0:
Stream from browser tab or system audio (BlackHole/VB-Cable)
Music recognition with automatic deduplication and "winner selection"
24/7 demo rooms (NTS Radio, SomaFM, and yes... Money For Nothing on loop)
See Lobby rooms from inside a room
Push-to-talk overlay for hosts
Automatically add emotes dropping 7tv.app link in the emoji popup in the chat
Happy to answer any questions! PS. Audio can be shared only by desktop at the moment. Not mobile
When I click on a room, the URL changes, indicating I might have joined the room, but I don't get any audio. No audio icon on the tab. Can't hear anything.
Console says "WebRTC: ICE failed, add a TURN server and see about:webrtc for more details"
I don't have WebRTC specifically disabled that I recall, I thought I've taken video calls in this Firefox before. Hope this report helps!
(That's a direct link to a current stream, with a few casual chat'ters)
1. Streamed via Blackhole and music was constantly slowing down for me, not sure if listeners had similar experience. 2. Couldn't unmute my mic so you could hear me breathing in the bg at times. 3. If I refreshed the page I couldn't go back to hosting my room. How can I do this? 4. If I blocked my mic all music stopped and re-adding it wouldn't go back to streaming.
But I don't see a button or anything to actually host a room.
I can only join rooms.
Using Android Chrome.
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2. Setup is a bit of a painful (had to install software and then still couldn't get audio to work from Rekordbox) so if that could be simplified it would be cool
3. I like the chat, makes me feel like I missed out on the IRC era
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Thank you for trying and for taking the time of letting us know.
Also seems to require a password to host a room (can't just leave it open?)
Re. password... we landed on requiring a password to create the room to let you retain the "HOST" status. E.g., if you disconnect and go back ... need password to authenticate as HOST so that you won't lose your room to the first stranger that finds it empty
But all rooms are open. Password is just a "Recovery password". I will update now the description text to this
I know, I know, it's classic to look back wistfully, but I really feel like something was lost in the past 15 years or so. We just cobbled together this stuff from simple components and had fun. I didn't require a PhD to get your head around it, I feel like people were more clever because you kinda needed to be. Nowadays if something isn't part of the shiny web app you're just shit out of luck. Back then we'd just do another hack and it was all good.
The way I think about, Pulse is an attempt to part ways from the traditional "Algos" and other machine based recommendation systems (which is what I think of as the real "shiny web")... and get back to listening to real people and just vibing with them while each one does their own thing.
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