Station.ru - online radio out of browser on Silverlight

At the opening of the conference “ Platform 2010 ” we showed Station.ru - a new development of QuantumArt for the Russian Media Group . This is a single point of entry for popular radio stations of the holding - “Russian Radio”, “Radio Maximum”, DFM and others.

In addition to traditional listening to radio online, the site features an interesting player that allows you to customize music for yourself and make your own radio station. You can set your current mood, desired tempo, timbre and popularity of myzuki - and the site will select a playlist specifically for you.

The most interesting thing is that this player can be launched outside the browser - thanks to the capabilities of Silverlight 3. Just go to http://station.ru/desktop and click the button “Install player on computer”! The application has an icon on the desktop, a place on the taskbar, its own window in the OS (Windows or Mac OS), but at the same time it is the same Silverlight application as in the browser. That is, when developing such a solution, it is not necessary to create a separate project, conduct it in parallel, make a separate support for the product, and so on. Plus, users only need Silverlight to launch (as in the browser) and that's it!
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In addition to the interestingness of the script and the ease of development, it is important to note a big plus for users - how often did you accidentally close the browser when music was playing in one of the tabs? In this case, there are simply no such problems - the application is launched separately.

More detailed information about the development of out-of-browser applications on Silverlight is available in a special online report on TechDays.