Introducing Zcash Radio!

[shieldedmark]

So I figured out a good use for this whole “vibe coding” thing…

…and that’s making fun little apps to make the Zcash community smile!

To that end, I introduce to you: Zcash Radio.

It scrapes YouTube links from the legendary “What are you listening to?” thread, then shuffles all the tracks and plays them full screen. If you want to contribute, just post a Youtube video in that thread. I’m also doing some light-touch curation to filter out expired links, meme posts, advertisements, forum talks, and other non-musical things.

Feedback welcome, and if you feel like checking out the code, the GitHub repo is here.

PS: Right now it’s just running on GitHub Pages which is “fine,” but I’d love to move it onto zcash.radio. The registry wants ~220 EUR So if anyone feels like helping make that happen, there’s a privacy preserving UA in the footer. Thank you!

[dismad]

Thanks for sharing!

[zerodartz]

love it.

suggestion: it could have a minimal amount of more Zcash vibe design around the video maybe? so video bit less than fullscreen. otherwise it could be any other youtube player site.

[shieldedmark]

@zerodartz Ask and you shall receive!

There are more Zcash vibes now:

1. Scrolling ticker (love a good marquee tag)
2. Some useful Zcash stats in the sidebar
3. More graphics, etc…

Link in the OP, let me know what you think!

[robmarn]

I think we can organize ourselves with regard to the name and the donations you receive on behalf of ZK Radio…

If you have any questions or comments, please send me a private message or visit ZK Radio - Zcash en Español.

[robmarn]

ZK Radio (OFFICIAL) is not requesting or receiving any kind of contribution through that QR code.

You can see ZK Radio’s address and QR code at:

ZK Radio

[shieldedmark]

Whoops! I didnt realize I was stepping on your toes. I will change the logo back to Zcash Radio ASAP.

Please support ZK Radio!

[gordonesTV]

This is an amazing idea!

I love to work listening some music, and this is perfect!

[shieldedmark]

Regarding the QR code, somebody on Twitter had a great suggestion: change the donation QR code based on who posted the currently playing song.

Putting this out there: What would be a painless, privacy-preserving way to implement this? Since I’m already scraping the forum I was thinking maybe people could opt in by putting a U-address (without the transparent receiver) in their profiles somewhere, and my scraper could grab that when it gets the list of songs?

What do you think?

[dismad]

[zancas]

This is super cool.. but when I try to load the URL in Brave on an iPhone (not logged in to youtube) I get a flickering notification stream saying that I am not logged in…

[shieldedmark]

Thanks for reporting this. Unfortunately I don’t have an iPhone to test - can somebody else that has one check to see if they have the same issue?

[dismad]

Brave iOS 26

DuckDuckGo iOS26

[aaal]

duckduckgo does it all for the nookie

[zerodartz]

its a common problem on yt side with not logged in users. for me at least - i get this often. (might also be VPN related sometimes)

[shieldedmark]

Curator tipping is now live on Zcash Radio!

Add your UA to your profile and it will be picked up at the next thread scrape (currently every 6 hours)