| Omnifrog | why icecast? | 00:59 |
|---|---|---|
| Omnifrog | and WHY XMAS?!?!? | 01:00 |
| Omnifrog | when I was on the air I refused to broadcast xmas music till ~mid December | 01:01 |
| Omnifrog | even then they were mostly contemporary covers | 01:02 |
| [Ubik] | Omnifrog: Seems everyone here's going to that already. It's on cable, two local FM stations are running it (one of them started BEFORE Halloween, go figure.) | 01:03 |
| [Ubik] | Either I'm misinterpreting things or it's getting earlier and earlier every year. | 01:03 |
| Omnifrog | same here in the Chattanooga area | 01:04 |
| [Ubik] | Omnifrog: ah, so you are local then? heh | 01:04 |
| [Ubik] | guess so based on your hostname | 01:04 |
| [Ubik] | I'm in Cleveland | 01:04 |
| Omnifrog | not far away | 01:05 |
| Omnifrog | one of my kids live there | 01:05 |
| [Ubik] | ah | 01:05 |
| [Ubik] | Yeah, I'm guessing you are more Ooltewah area. | 01:06 |
| [Ubik] | I'm on 104.1 up here weekdays. | 01:06 |
| Omnifrog | yep | 01:06 |
| Omnifrog | I don't know if we get that station here | 01:06 |
| [Ubik] | What do you recommend instead of icecast? | 01:06 |
| Omnifrog | when I was a DJ I used IDJC and sc-serv | 01:07 |
| [Ubik] | ah | 01:07 |
| Omnifrog | on shoutcast | 01:07 |
| [Ubik] | I used to use shoutcast years ago | 01:07 |
| [Ubik] | I guess I gravitated to icecast because one server could handle multiple streams | 01:08 |
| Omnifrog | I never bothered to look into the difference | 01:08 |
| [Ubik] | (well, one physical box could do it with shoutcast too, but you had to have a different set of ports per stream) | 01:08 |
| Omnifrog | yeah, sc-serv can only stream one stream per instance of the server | 01:08 |
| Omnifrog | yep | 01:09 |
| Omnifrog | with shoutcast you need a total of 4 ports open for 2 streams | 01:09 |
| Omnifrog | in my case I was streaming a 24k and a 64 k stream | 01:10 |
| Omnifrog | IDJC can be a real pain in the ass though | 01:11 |
| Omnifrog | getting Jack and alsa to cooperate makes me want to crush my keyboard with my forehead | 01:12 |
| [Ubik] | yeah | 01:12 |
| [Ubik] | Load up XP with a hacked copy of SAM Broadcaster and your life goes much easier :P | 01:12 |
| Omnifrog | I've seen plenty of other DJs fight with SAM | 01:13 |
| Omnifrog | no thanks | 01:13 |
| Omnifrog | maybe I'm biased | 01:13 |
| Omnifrog | but once you get IDJC working it's really a great console | 01:14 |
| Omnifrog | getting it working is the hard part | 01:14 |
| Omnifrog | I havent been on air since 2014 so I optimistically assume it has improved | 01:15 |
| [Ubik] | yeah, it's a PITA | 01:21 |
| [Ubik] | or was, I hadn't messed with it in a while either | 01:21 |
| [Ubik] | I used SAM years ago, it was OK | 01:22 |
| [Ubik] | just give me a copy of Simian, a board, a true processor, and a mic... lol | 01:22 |
| [Ubik] | or, Rivendell | 01:22 |
| [Ubik] | WTNW over in Jasper (820 AM, but the transmitter is MIA right now) | 01:22 |
| [Ubik] | they run Rivendell | 01:22 |
| [Ubik] | buddy of mine runs that station | 01:22 |
| Omnifrog | Ha! found it http://imgur.com/a/baLHI | 01:47 |
| Omnifrog | my syation back in 2012 | 01:48 |
| Omnifrog | station * | 01:48 |
| Omnifrog | Note: I changed the "ON AIR" sign to florescent red after I took that pic | 01:53 |
| Omnifrog | there is a black light on that box and at the time I only had green paper that glowed under UV | 01:54 |
| cyberanger | Omnifrog: Why not icecast? | 03:21 |
| Omnifrog | at the time I didn't know the difference between the 2 | 03:21 |
| Omnifrog | I still don't really | 03:22 |
| Omnifrog | but the station I worked for used shoutcast so it wasnt a choice really | 03:22 |
| cyberanger | Fair enough, and half of why for me is ease of install, apt-get install icecast2 and done. | 03:26 |
| Omnifrog | if it were that easy I would gladly have done that | 03:27 |
| Omnifrog | it wasn't an option though | 03:28 |
| cyberanger | I get that | 03:28 |
| [Ubik] | nice | 15:57 |
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