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. 

:-\

> 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