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another successful 8-track Thursday at WQMA 1520 AM !
well the 8-track Thursday on WQMA just ended- and what a great show it
was ! many mentions again for Noah Cope and yours truly- and more tapes and songs played than I can remember ! Only one breakage I heard of was a Foreigner tape. the 8-track player is still humming away nicely for Jason and Jennifer ! |
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I think I sent them that Foreigner tape. I kinda half-expected that to
happen. I hope I remembered to warn him about it... I tried to listen, but could not get my computer to stream... |
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yes it was your tape- but he also played all your other tapes as well,
and all those others played ok- and mentioned your name for every song- also your 8-track dealings. I fast forward all the donation tapes to the channel switch here, and change/reinforce the splice/sensing foil- then test each one in my Pioneer HR-99. If they make any shuttling/squealing noises, or they drag at all- I open them up and lube them. If they will play in that Pioneer, they'll play in the Craig deck I sent down- as both have the small DC motors. wonder if he got his other deck up and running ? |
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On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:50:00 -0700, DeserTBoB
wrote: Who cares? You can't hear much over a 32 kb/s mp3PRO compressed feed on dial-up at 56 kB/s, anyway. Webcasts are just a waste of time to me, anyway...low quality, horrid reliability, flaky servers. What a poo-poo attitude about online streaming! Nothing in life is guaranteed 100% perfect. I can tell you that you can listen to hours without a glitch. And yes, you can occasionally run into a gap or skip too. But remember tuning in distant AM/FM signals? Sometimes you might get a little fuzz. Depending on the show and your determination, you might sit through a program with a lot of static. Nothing is perfect. A lot of people use our station for the special weekend programming. Things like Dr. Demento really attract a lot of folks worldwide. We get emails from Germany thanking us for Casey Kasem, or Chile thanking us for adding Wolfman Jack. US soldiers overseas tell us they miss Steve & DC in the morning and enjoy hearing them on our station. We receive regular weekly reports from these diehard fans that record certain shows in CD quality (from the higher quality feed) and let us know each and everytime it skips or stutters. Usually it's pretty good. Much better to hear 98% of a good show from WQMA than get stuck with whatever the stations you have locally decide to provide you with if you want better. Music is a big part of our station, but it's also the 5 star personalities (I'm not referring to me!) Jason |
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Jason,
I agree wholeheartedly- I listen to your show via streamer MP3 link in STEREO with my headphones on- and it sounds better than my local stations do on the radio- yours has no background interference. There is also a monaural streamer, but the stereo sounds better of course. The alternative is, I can only hear AM or FM radio for about a 30 mile radius, because this is a mountainous area. With the streamer, I'm getting an AM Mississippi station that is about a thousand miles away ? No contest- the streamer is AWESOME ! Who ever is dissing the streamer link, obviously never listened to it- or doesn't know how. Perhaps he's deaf, insane, or both ? (chuckle...) keep up the great work and great 8-track show, Charlie N. |
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Jason K wrote:
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:50:00 -0700, DeserTBoB wrote: Who cares? You can't hear much over a 32 kb/s mp3PRO compressed feed on dial-up at 56 kB/s, anyway. Webcasts are just a waste of time to me, anyway...low quality, horrid reliability, flaky servers. What a poo-poo attitude about online streaming! Nothing in life is guaranteed 100% perfect. I can tell you that you can listen to hours without a glitch. And yes, you can occasionally run into a gap or skip too. But remember tuning in distant AM/FM signals? Sometimes you might get a little fuzz. Depending on the show and your determination, you might sit through a program with a lot of static. Nothing is perfect. A lot of people use our station for the special weekend programming. Things like Dr. Demento really attract a lot of folks worldwide. We get emails from Germany thanking us for Casey Kasem, or Chile thanking us for adding Wolfman Jack. US soldiers overseas tell us they miss Steve & DC in the morning and enjoy hearing them on our station. We receive regular weekly reports from these diehard fans that record certain shows in CD quality (from the higher quality feed) and let us know each and everytime it skips or stutters. Usually it's pretty good. Much better to hear 98% of a good show from WQMA than get stuck with whatever the stations you have locally decide to provide you with if you want better. Music is a big part of our station, but it's also the 5 star personalities (I'm not referring to me!) Jason what really ticks me off about the modern method of "streaming" is that there are a number of stations using non-standard ways of streaming their content requiring special applications for the client side just to be able to listen to their content. that is not really considered streaming. not too long ago, every webcaster used standard ways of streaming which would give the users their choice of media player to use & quite often, the stream would work accross all platforms, including linux, unix, freebsd, netbsd, etc. this is what made sites like shoutcast quite successful. they stream mp3 & ogg-vorbis now, it appears that there are a few stations (including WQMA) that recently got into webcasting using non-conventional ways of streaming & in all cases, work on only one platform, (microsoft windows). i use linux. i will never use microsoft windows to access the internet. the internet was intended for all platforms to use, not just microsoft. the streaming P-2-P service that your station uses sucks because of what was mentioned above. also, it sucks because it requires running a server on the client side. there are quite a few service providers who will get really anal about the extra bandwidth being used. also, it is against most broadband internet service providers terms of service to run servers on their residential broadband service. the streamer client would never be allowed on a corporate network because most corporate IT departments have a policy in place prohibiting the use of P2P clients on any of their workstations. i have already tried to install Streamer in WINE. allthough the gui appears to work, it cannot connect because the API for it's networking does not work in WINE. please ask your station manager to consider opening a raw mp4 stream or providing a alternate stream through shoutcast. -- i have an 8 track mind My other computer is your XP box. |
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On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:04:26 -0400, 8 tracker from hell
wrote: now, it appears that there are a few stations (including WQMA) that recently got into webcasting using non-conventional ways of streaming & in all cases, work on only one platform, (microsoft windows). snip Gee...I wonder who planned that? I smell something foul...like Billy Gates! the streaming P-2-P service that your station uses sucks because of what was mentioned above. also, it sucks because it requires running a server on the client side. there are quite a few service providers who will get really anal about the extra bandwidth being used. snip Mine goes ballistic about these things. i have already tried to install Streamer in WINE. allthough the gui appears to work, it cannot connect because the API for it's networking does not work in WINE. snip "Streamer" was created to sell more WinBlowz crap, not to be a universal netcasting app. please ask your station manager to consider opening a raw mp4 stream or providing a alternate stream through shoutcast. snip mp4 would be much better and offer good connectivity. Streamer blows. dB |
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It depends on backbone traffic. If traffic light, streams can run OK.
If traffic backs up or there's a facility slip or failure, it's over. It's still low bit rate, though. Bob, time for you to throw out that tin can and strings and sign up with a cable server. I run my olde HP Pavilion with streaming audios from all kinds of sites while working on my company's bookkeeping with never a pause in the feed. Sounds just fine. And that is without the new fancy improved cable modem my provider keeps suggesting I come down and pick up (free replacement) which I keep forgetting to do. Granted I am in a fairly low populated area and maybe that is a factor. The Internet changed (and will keep changing or become something entirely different), we all have to move on. WWW |
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