On Sunday 07 April 2019 10:58:36 deloptes wrote:
William Morder wrote:
If anybody knows of a better service for streaming music, that would also be a great help; at present, cost is a factor, and until we get more listeners to justify spending more money, we seem to be stuck with Voscast. At present, it costs about $17 a month for 64 kbps, which is the lowest quality stream that plays in stereo. I would like to bump it up at least to 128 kbps, maybe even 192 or more, as I see other streams out there now that are much higher quality. But all in good time; that will cost a lot more.
Hi, I think it is pretty good quality for my self made PC boxes out of recycled pc loud speakers, so keep it just the way it is and spend money on advertisements, that will give you more hits and higher download rates.
And what you have now is working pretty well, so why changing something? I recall playing with icecast many moons ago. Good stuff, good choice!
Regarding converting I use ffmpeg. You can put a script together to convert all you have to 64 into a new directory - it makes no sense to burn CPU/power each time you play something.
I have worked a lot with ffmpeg, so I'll have to figure out how to cobble together this script. Right now I have not enough space available for a new directory of converted files.
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thumbs up & regards
Thanks for your listening and comments.
I am still tied down about some choices, but the money is slowly getting better, pennies at a time, so when I can buy an external hdd or hdd with enclosure, I will do some massive rearrangements of my materials, then dedicate an older WD 1 TB external hdd just to the converted radio files, and a laptop dedicated just to streaming, and network everything with my desktop.
Then I can relax more, as I don't want to stream live radio from my main computer that I use for work and life and everything else.
The current playlist is rather heavy on jazz, but only because that's what I just uploaded and added to the list. At present, only about a third of unploaded music available on the server (for AutoDJ) have actually been added to the list; within another day or so, there will be much more, and I hope to increase the list every week or so for the next few months, so that for listeners there will be enough variety that they won't get tired after a few hours (unless they just don't like my choices).
Feel free to share with others, as we rely on word-of-mouth for most listeners. We are working on a smartphone app based on VLC.
Bill