Streaming radio on electro-music.com

mosc · Last edited by mosc on Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:22 pm; edited 3 times in total

**Martha, I think I've got electro-music.com!**

Streaming audio information:

electro-music.com is proud announce that we are providing live audio streaming over the internet to our community. Now it is possible for electro-musicians all over the planet to broadcast live audio of concerts or electro-jams to a global audience. We hope this will greatly enhance the strength of our community and increase our collective audience. The web page for the electro-music.com radio service is http://radio.electro-music.com.

We are using the Shoutcast technology. Shoutcast is usable on Mac, Windows and Linux. On Mac, iTunes will play the streams. On Windows, we suggest Winamp, but you may use iTunes and even Windows Media Player. On Linux, XMMS is suggested.

Whenever possible, we will stream at two rates - one for good fidelity and one to enable people with slower internet connections. Try the server with the highest bit rate first and fall back to the slower one if you are having trouble.

When live events are being streamed be sure to check onto the electro-music.com chat room. Usually, someone at the source will be able to share what is going on.

All you need to originate an internet radio broadcast is a moderately capable PC with a sound card, a broadband internet link (Cable Modem, ADSL, etc), and some free software. It is also possible to originate live music broadcasts from OSX, but you must get some commercial software that costs about $40 US - free eval. See: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/ )

If you would like to source a live audio SHOUTcast steam on electro-music.com from your studio or other remote location, these are the steps:

1) Let us know you want to participate. Send a PM to MOSC. Tell us know who you are, something about the music, when you'd like to broadcast, and other details. At some point you will need some promotional "copy' to help promote your broadcast. This would include pictures, descriptions and any links to your website and/or mp3s. If you have CDs for sale, provide a link to those too. This information should be posted as a forum topic on the News -> Concerts and Fesitvals forum.

2) If all is agreeable and appropriate, the we'll give you a couple of URLs and passwords to our test server. This will enable you to experiment with your setup and to practice broadcasting your live streams. When we are comfortable you can get the technology to work, we'll set up an exact time and you'll get different URLs and passwords to access our public servers. We will post announcements on electro-music.com and you can promote the event in other ways as well. This service will be free unless we outgrow our infastructure.

The best time for a stream would be at about 3 PM EST (Eastern USA time) to correspond with mid evening in Europe. Other times are possible, but maybe not as desirable.

During the broadcast, listeners can get together on the electro-music.com chat room. It's possible to interact with the audience this way. We have the option of rebroadcasting these live events as well, so the music will be heard by a larger audience.

Please note, we aren't offering free streaming servers for streaming stations. This is for infrequent single event concerts and such. Also, the type of music must be appropriate.

We'd love to hear any suggestions for improving this new service. Please let us know what you think.

Antimon · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 4:55 am Post subject:

Zuperkool!

/Stefan

Kassen · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 5:20 am Post subject:

For shoutcast on Linux I've had better results with ALSAplayer then with XMMS.If XMMS gives trouble that pne might be a good alternative.

3070 · Joined: Jun 16, 2004 Posts: 27

Not bad...
This will make for some interesting times.

vytear · Joined: Jan 31, 2005 Posts: 14 Location: philadelphia

Streaming from Elkins Park!
be there in a minute-

_Jason

frijitz · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

Any clues for a total idiot on how to hear this? WMP says it can't play the files.

Ian

Blue Hell · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject:

Open URL in WMP and type :

http://radio.electro-music.com:8050

into the box

frijitz · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:08 pm Post subject:

Thanks!

adhdboy · Joined: Feb 16, 2005 Posts: 49 Location: denver

Thanks for setting this up mosc it should really prove to be extremely cool.

Inventor · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 6:31 am Post subject:

This is better than sliced bread. I just spent a week "playing DJ" with my iTunes collection in an audio-video chat room and it was a blast! Unfortunately at that chat room there were some bad eggs who were unpleasant to me, so I left it, but until then it was great fun.

I have two or three ChucK songs which I would like to share if anyone would like to add them to their material for a show. People like the three songs, and Howard listened to one and commented that it was "very good", but one person said it made her dog bark, haha! I don't know what to think of music that humans like, yet makes dogs bark! I can put the songs on my music web page so anyone can download them. Any takers?

Oh, I just noticed the dates on this thread, it's been around for a while. I just haven't checked it out! Oh well, happy streaming!

mosc · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:19 am Post subject:

If you want to do a "show" on electro-music.com, that is fine. Of course, we can't play music that is licensed. There is a lot of really great music already posted here - that would be the preferred music. Your own music or any music is good to go too, of course.

The fact that there hasn't been much going on on our internet radio doesn't mean we don't want to do it. Wink

Inventor · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject:

Yes, Howard, I'd like to give a try at a show sometime. Let me gather up some music or generate some more. Also I just bought a guitar so maybe I can play it after I learn a song. I'd rather use my own materials, and all of my music would be free, royalty free, or however you say it. Can one release music under the GNU General Public License? That's how I release all my ChucK software and sports prediction software.

I'll send you a private message whenever I feel ready to do a show, not sure if and when that will be. Gee, I spent 8 months building the tools I need to make music, now I get to make some with it! So many fun things to do, I love this music hobby!

mosc · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject:

The best think if you want to lisence your music for non-commercial use is Creative Commons.