7 Apr
2019
7 Apr
'19
8:12 p.m.
On Sunday 07 April 2019 10:58:36 deloptes wrote:
William Morder wrote:
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.
:-\
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.
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