# Ark player feedback

**URL:** <https://forum.spinitron.com/t/ark-player-feedback/228>\
**Category:** 🗄 Stream Archive\
**Tags:** stream-archive\
**Created:** [September 17, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/ark-player-feedback/228 "2020-09-17T15:36:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/user_avatar/forum.spinitron.com/tom/32/343_2.png) [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/ark-player-feedback/228/216 "2023-10-15T17:24:39Z")

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Hi Daniel, thanks for joining the forum.

It is _possible_ to open a pop-up window with a player in it in desktop/laptop web browsers, but not on mobile, which is the majority of listening. Possible but I don’t like to do that and I don’t like it when web sites do it to me. I can open a link in a new window or in a new tab on my own so if I want I can leave a player running. If a player is already running and I want to click a link on the page with the player, I open it in a new tab or window and the player keeps running. In summary: I don’t like popups; we don’t need them; I don’t want to inflict them on users.

On the question of limited interactivity, please read the following

> [@Webcast archive, not podcast](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/webcast-archive-not-podcast/659):
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> Some radio listeners, DJs, and station staff have told us about features they expect in Spinitron’s Ark webcast archive service, features like skip, seek, and segmenting the stream into radio programs. It’s as though they expect the archive to be like a podcast player. But our service doesn’t work like that. This article explains why and what it does instead. Podcasts In the podcast model of user interaction, you choose a radio program that aired some time ago, start it, and listen to an audio …

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