I’ve been playing with radio streaming today, for our up and coming Morley Community Radio broadcasts. It is being uploaded from an old laptop in my house (one I loaned someone and it came back nastily infected so that took up most of the morning) so it might run a bit lumpy.

There are a number of old sweepers/jingles from earlier broadcasts with a smattering of free use music samples that came with the last recorder I bought. They just play in a loop, shuffled just to vary it, 27 tracks, about five minutes. There is an easter egg in there though!

Check it out at http://radiohosting.co.uk:8080 it should play in practically any media player. If you have dial-up, it will be dog rough.

If it looks like the screen on the left, it is running OK. If it is not running, the screen will look like the one on the right. The laptop is still misbehaving so it might be pot luck!

Update- I’ve had it running solid for sixty hours, but the laptop has a memory leak so I have taken it down again now.

The blogpost title is as usual somewhat tangential- rivers, streams…

I’m feeling a little crazy myself today, I told two Jehovah’s Witnesses to “Bugger Off” and stop wasting my time.