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Using a testserver at radiostreamer.com I'm streaming music off my hard drive for 24 hours (until 12 noon EST tomorrow). I'm using a radio automation system to randomly pick songs. It's in demo mode, so every half hour or so, an annoying "buy this software" announcement comes on and I have to restart the stream. I'm testing how this all works so we can get the radio station I'm starting online, in advance of getting our transmitter tower built and all the money raised to equip a real studio.

Anyway, check it out! I'm not sure how many concurrent listeners can listen at once. Go to radiostreamer.com, click "skip intro", then in the table under Test Server 1, click "listen".

I'll take requests.

I'll be away from this computer for an hour or so from 4:30 to 5:30.

No guarantees about the sound quality of the mp3s on my hard drive or the sequence in which songs play.

Feedback about webstreaming and radio and music welcome.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Lorne Green - Pop Goes the Hammer

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I've got LCD Soundsystem's 45-minute Nike thing scheduled for 4:22 (in about an hour). Hopefully the "buy this software announcement" won't kill it too soon.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i am listening (quietly)

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

oops, don't know why the program doesn't like Katatonia.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm downloading all kinds of stuff at the moment AND it's about 10PM (in a university city in Belgium, all the students are online and my broadband is usually VERY slow now), but the stream is very stable indeed, no skips at all. Quite impressive, I'm not used to this this time of night.

It's only 64 kbps in my winamp, and that page you linked to says there's maximum 3 listeners, so I don't know how it'll be when using higher bitrates and more listeners (you do plan on having more than three, right?)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

BTW: it's 64 kbps/44 Khz - I don't know for sure, but isn't that 44 Khz a bit high for that bitrate? (I mean, wouldn't 92 kbps / 32 Khz be more efficient?)

Note: I'm not a sound pro, I was just wondering.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

When we get the stream going for real, it will be at www.wvvy.org and we'll start with two streams, one low and one high bandwidth. We'll start with the capability for 40 listeners at a time.

Stan, thanks for the input about the Khz. I just set it up with the default settings, but I'll check into it.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, i can't get a stream, too many listeners

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

the radio station I'm starting online, in advance of getting our transmitter tower built and all the money raised to equip a real studio.

*raises his glass to that*

godspeed!

(Kingfish, I'll leave and listen again a bit later on, check it out nnnnnnnnow!)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Now playing LCD Soundsystem for the next 45 minutes while I pick up kids, etc. If the stream stops in the meantime, I'll be back at about 5:15 to restart it. Thanks for listening!

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

And there's space for 1 more listener now.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm on a connection too slow to stream stuff on, but just put the LCD thing on a few minutes before opening this thread. Ha!

maria- you're talking about WMVY, correct?

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the varied selection of music - it's a bit like the BE SURE TO REGISTER YOUR VERSION OF SAM AT GOBBLEYOUBOBBLEYOUROBBLEYOU'LL FEEL WARM AND SQUISHY WHEN YOU DO more rocking version of this fine BBC show

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

no wVvy - new station

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

grady: were you asking if there's a link between wmvy and wvvy? (wvvy.org does mention Martha's Vinyard and wmvy is a station from there, isn't it?)

... or did you really think Maria didn't know the name of her own radio station? :-)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

we're going to be the local competition - low-power as opposed to full-power - community non-profit, not commercial.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i wasn't paying attention to Maria's e-mail adress until after I posted that! felt kind of stupid when i realized. I knew that Maria lived on MV and assumed incorrectly as to which radio station this was for.

fwiw, WMVY is where I discovered the Rolling Stones.

xp: that sounds radical.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

now playing Rufus's requests

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm off to bed now, (just when the Crazy Frog started!?) but I'll be checking at work over the wireless connection there tomorrow morning :-)

(xpost: phew!)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

leaving it unattended now for awhile

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Thursday, 30 November 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm about to drop Scott's super summer mix in.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Thursday, 30 November 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

HELLO DERE!

― TEH AMAZING RANDY, Thursday, 30 November 2006 01:24 (seventeen years ago) link

this song is xrated

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Thursday, 30 November 2006 01:50 (seventeen years ago) link

We were listening while cleaning Donald's office. Three mummified mice!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 30 November 2006 01:52 (seventeen years ago) link

One was under the (rumpled) rug at the door, so we were stepping on him every time we entered the office. He was really flat.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 30 November 2006 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link

now you must find tiny scarab beetles and insert them into their wrappings, otherwise these mice will have a hard time in the underworld.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Thursday, 30 November 2006 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link

After this Scott mix gets interrupted by the "register your software and feel warm and squishy" voice, I'm going to play a rare Beta Band thing.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Thursday, 30 November 2006 02:00 (seventeen years ago) link

do we need to help think about possible tests for the software?

e.g.

Does it keep a playlist? ("what did I hear just before King Sunny Adé last night?")

Does it support live voices as well? ("Let's phone Scott in the kitchen for an update on that soup situation")

or isn't that within the scope of this test?

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 30 November 2006 06:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, it's down - did you stop? (test server 1 is "Online - Not In Use")

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 30 November 2006 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link

back on now
I fell asleep - because my liucense key to the software hasn't come yet, yhe SAM Broadcaster stops every half hour (demo mode)

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

the software in full mode does those things, but I don't have the set up yet.

I'm copying my friend Jim's system. He runs gtownradio.com
Also worth checking out

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually even in demo mode it does. It shows a history of the songs you've played.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Listening again - still no buffering and not one skip, very very stable streaming stuff, even when listening from the other side of the (well, ok, Belgium) world

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

What's this weird beta - band-01 thing that's been playing for the last 20 or so minutes?

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

That was a rare Beta Band tape. I've changed it now. Now playing Lifter Puller.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

You've got a microphone! *waves at his laptop*

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, something's going on, the playlist isn't advancing anymore (rhythm - mirth, since before the last REGISTER SQUISHY thing a couple of minutes ago)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

FYI: just disconnected & reconnected: still Rhythm - Mirth in the playlist

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

That rhythm mirth thing is a long set of songs I put together as a podcast for our website using Audacity. The squishy announcement interrupted it, so I tried my hand at starting it again, but was having trouble cueing it up to where I wanted.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I won't be able to listen anymore today, but it was an enjoyable preview, thanks :-)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

THANKS to all of you who tuned in! That concludes my broadcast day.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Thursday, 30 November 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Now I'm streaming forever -- but waiting for a new computer to come in the mail before I set it up officially and link it on our website. Still have the annoying ad to register software that bumps people off the stream until I get the new computer and register the software. Right now I'm rebroadcasting something I ripped from w f m u.

The stream can be accessed at http://rs1.radiostreamer.com:8360 Now up to 40 people can listen at once.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe I should start a new thread in celebration - although this still isn't the *real* webstream cuz it's just my music collection on auto-dj instead of a line up including the couple of dozen people here who want shows once the radio station goes live.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Now playing something truly weird that Scott put together by recording a tv show on tape and using a second tape recorder to edit and mix. It's called Sally Shoe and lasts about 20 minutes. Not for most people.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

this shoe thing is sick

― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

is that sally jessy?

― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link

yup

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

"you're dissecting people!"

― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm gonna put up the whole 22 minute version of sallyshoe tomorrow on ilm, jody. just to warn you.

― scott seward (121212), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

http://rs1.radiostreamer.com:8360/ :

Server is currently down.

:-(

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 16 December 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I could start it up if you'd like. I still have it running on my computer with demo software, but the real deal computer should be here Monday (says the FedEx tracking info).

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Saturday, 16 December 2006 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link

It's up now.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Saturday, 16 December 2006 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks! :-)

And yay for the real deal!

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 16 December 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

(it is? I'm still getting server down...) (but I'm not at home for the rest of the day, don't bother just for me)

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 16 December 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Oops, my computer crashed just now. Maybe there's a reason for having a dedicated computer. I'll restart it now.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Saturday, 16 December 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, it's official. You should be able to get a 64k or 24k webstream by going to wvvy.org We should be streaming now indefinitely without any of those "register your software" msgs. If anyone wants to send me a mix, I'll play it on our stream. YSI?

(If you try today and we're down, I'm just moving the computer to its semipermanent home. Check back in a half hour.)

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Sunday, 17 December 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I put some ILXor songs from ILXor Comp Vol. 2 in the mix. Hope nobody minds (let's be cool).

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Monday, 18 December 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

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