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link343 - Jan 3, 2005
  link343 Jan 3, 2005
I was thinking about it and I think it would be cool to have a radio station that we could all listen to insted of downloading those files from the soundtrack section.

 lordofduct Jan 3, 2005
That sounds like a damn good idea...

and you still haven't gotten back to me on if you want my saturn or not, we discussed it awhile ago! name a price, im fairly easy to manhandle and negotiate with.

 Parn Jan 3, 2005
Heh, I tried something like this a long time ago called SuperSonic Radio on Live365, but I more or less gave up on it due to lack of interest.

I currently run RPGFan Radio, though it has interest due to a larger potential audience. Online radio sucks a lot of bandwidth though, even at low bitrates. It usually is more cost conservative to go with a provider like Live365 than run your own thing, all dependant on how many people listen of course. If you have a small audience, it'd be feasible to run something off your own computer, though you pretty much kill your bandwidth completely for downloading purposes.

As a game music lover, you may enjoy this.... Just something I'm hosting for a few friends at the moment, and hey... what the hell. Enjoy.

Note: I am aware of the glitch at the 4:28 mark... that's not from bad MP3 encoding, it's from a badly mastered CD. Annoying glitch on what is otherwise an awesome song. *sigh*

 link343 Jan 3, 2005

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by lordofduct@Sun, 2005-01-02 @ 08:22 PM



That sounds like a damn good idea...



and you still haven't gotten back to me on if you want my saturn or not, we discussed it awhile ago! name a price, im fairly easy to manhandle and negotiate with.




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Um, I will need to get back to you.

 link343 Jan 3, 2005
Im testing the radio station now. You can listen to it by puttin in this address in your media player: http://68.113.4.6:8000...

 mal Jan 3, 2005
Works for me. :thumbs-up:

 Cloud121 Jan 3, 2005
This does sound like a good idea Link.

I'll try it later.

Looking forward to see how it works.

 reX dart: eskimo spy Jan 3, 2005
Doesn't work for me using WMP.

Great idea, though.

 mal Jan 3, 2005
It worked using WMP9 when I was at work, but it isn't working from home.

I guess it's down ATM.

 Resident_Lurker Jan 3, 2005
I'd like this. I'd be a good way to sample soundtracks.

But it requires some upkeep and bandwidth, of course.

 schi0249 Jan 3, 2005
I think that is a good idea. Definatly a way to liven things up. Even if it was hosted by a 3rd party.

 stack99 Jan 3, 2005
It didn't work for me at work, but I will try again when I get home, its definately a great idea...

 IceDigger Jan 4, 2005
Very nice!

 IceDigger Jan 4, 2005
How much bandwidth would such a venture take up?

 Resident_Lurker Jan 4, 2005
Well, Link is running his stream at 112kbps. That would equal 14 kilobytes a second.

If one person downloads at that speed for 24 hours, that'd be 1.15 gigabytes.

If I figured that correctly.

 link343 Jan 4, 2005
Im testting the station at 80kbps. Maby soon I will try 56kbps.

 Curtis Jan 4, 2005
I don't know what software you're using, but the best streaming solution I've heard is 64Kb MP3Pro. It's a very good compromise of sound quality and bandwidth use. 80K OGG would be the next best solution, but I know OGG streams cause problems with some versions of Winamp.

 Alexvrb Jan 4, 2005
Then... use... other versions?

 Pearl Jammzz Jan 9, 2005
lol, ya, if it's the best choice I think we can all upgrade to the newest winamp