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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
