Somewhere down the crazy river
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.
February 9th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Well I could not manage to get anything to play. The screen was strange and I clicked on everything but mostly nothing happened, except once I was asked to authenticate something and give my password. I have media players galore. Is it supposed to load itself and start up a player. Confused, as usual.
February 9th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Sorry, the laptop is still playing up- it decided to download thirty updates and then fall over…
I’ve added explanatory screens as to whether it is running or not.
February 9th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
It’s working here, but then again Wimbledon are winning so this universe is clearly parallel.
Can’t imagine you telling anyone to bugger off…
February 9th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Womble, I was expecting someone else and hobbled my way to the door to find these two sanctimonious God botherers with outrageous pink ties, black great coats and smiles like Viz’s Ivan Jelical.
When they wouldn’t take no for an answer, I lost my patience and asked them politely if they’d just bugger off and leave me alone.
February 9th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
By the way Womble, did you find the
Dog’sEaster Egg?