Starting next month, Remedy is back as our weekly friday event, after an absence of about a year and a half. And, coincidentally, that will be our 999th event since we re-opened in 2001! The 1000th event is the next night, New Wave City.
Remedy's return means there's been some more shuffling of the calendar: Bootie and Pop Roxx are moving to Saturdays.
I'm trying something new: I set up a new webcast that is streaming music by many of the bands who have played here. These are studio recordings, not live. And it's not all the bands who have played here (341 at last count) but only those I happen to own CDs by, which looks to be, at the moment, 92 bands (on 215 CDs). I also threw a few of the Bootie mash-up compilations in there.
So, let me know if you like it. I'm not sure if I'll keep it up or not; depends on whether it seems to be popular, I guess.
Of course that's really hard to tell, since I still haven't found any software that will give me any kind of reasonable log analysis of Icecast logs. (All I'm interested in is "how many people listened to each stream" and "how long did they stay connected", and I've yet to find any software that will tell me that. "How many people clicked the link" isn't a very useful approximation.)
This is all complicated by our continuous network suckage, of course, since our ISP blows chunks. If you can stay connected to any of our MP3 streams for more than a few minutes at a time without it rebuffering, you're luckier than I am.
(Yeah, I should have switched ISPs a year ago. My best prospect for an inexpensive new home has been telling me "real soon now" for pretty much that entire year.)
So you’re going to pay for hardware and bandwidth, maintain an MP3 collection, and maintain a bunch of scripts, and worry about the legal hoops.
And our job is to click, and enjoy.
Works for me.
Thank you! :)
Well, I think the legal hoops are already covered; we’re already paying the license fees. This is actually a *less* complicated situation than the live webcasts.
It’s been 404ing for a while now.
Yup.
Not sure why it exits every now and then… clearly more cron-brand duct tape is called for. It’s back up now. (Via ssh on my phone from the park, whee…)
I clicked on the radio link.
it offered to open dnaradio.m3u in realplayer
and then real player said
requested file not found
crebrum.dnalounge.com:8000/radio
suggestions? I’m new to having a computer that can handle a radio stream.
I got the same thing using Winamp.
It was down, try again. (But in general, iTunes or Winamp are better choices for listening to streaming audio than Real.)
Working for me now!!!
radio keeps buffering for me.
but on a side note, MEAT got a great write up this month. <3 MEAT. here is the link
http://www.eros-zine.com/articles/2006-09-05/meat0905/
Do you have all the songs pre-encoded, or are you re-encoding these at the appropriate bitrate? The first song played was at 160kbps, but I thought you throttle to 128kbps.
That track was a Psyclon Nine song, if that’s helpful.
… As I wrote this, The Start’s Hi Flyer started, & incoming bandwidth went up to 160kbps, then lowered to 128kbps, then, eventually, stuttering.
Then The Cruxshadows, Breathe, at 256kbps – stuttering started immediately.
Oh shit, I didn’t even think of that… yeah, I need to re-encode them all to be 128k.
But, we have this stuttering problem even with our live 128k stream, so there’s definitely a lot of “our ISP sucks” going on here.
I’m guessing you’ve tested it locally, before the ISP gets it, but you have tried adding some fraction of the rate to the throttle to cover overhead, right?
… and thank you for playing halou.
Nice! I like it quite a bit, actually. Thanks! :-)
Granted, it’s 2:40AM PDT, but I’ve been connected for just about 20 minutes now without rebuffering.
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No more music choices oddly relevant to their corresponding posts?
:) Joy!
I’m sure someone’s suggested this, but have you thought about having a page showing what’s currently playing, & pointing at a site or two to purchase the album online?