OT: Any chance of favour.

It should be:

(too many colons). And when I clicked it, Winamp started to open an mp3, which is still downloading....

1.04mb......1.10mb...

WMP9 with all the updates streams it fine here. Good quality too.

Mike P

I've 'Open URL'ed in WMP now and it's streaming....

speed and quality are great, I'm on 4mbps Cable. Shoot it up!

I'm on 1mbps down here in the sticks, still working perfectly :-)

Mike p

Oops. Typo in the address yes.

:) I'm not far from him anyway so it should be quicker for me ;)

It is at 128bit and 44khz quality.

Got quite a large collection to play. I'm on a Bulldog 4meg connection.

Excellent.

I'm playing with Icecast2 and the SamBroadcaster online radio studio software. I used a very early version about 4 years ago for a similar experiment and it is pretty damned good now.

Cool. Does the streaming software just look at your mp3 collection and mix them and stream them?

Icecast is a streaming server that you configure with an xml file (pretty well commented and decent help file)

Sam Broadcast is the studio type software. It uses a database of files (Mysql, postgres, MS SQL, or Firebird) had MySQL installed so I used that. You can either use to do a live show (including mic, sound effects etc), set up a play list and it run through that in "auto DJ" format, or you can set it to just "auto DJ" through the entire Database. When using the whole DB, the Auto DJ seemed to prefer Elvis Costello, and Ian Dury.

Woah, great stuff. I'll have a mess with that, thanks.

It's good fun. Sam

even has the option, and a link out, to run a small low power transmitter PCI card for running a real radio station at local events (illegal of course in the UK).

Also you may even be able to patch a phone or cell phone in through the AUX options, and do a single line at a time live phone in/interview. Now that would be spooky

It's rockin here in Winamp :-)

A little Lou Reed.

Offspring :-)

I think I tuned in to Faget by Korn?? There was a silence a couple of times and then it stopped completely. But then I'm on poverty 512.

I noticed it does drop in and out when new people connect and drop off. I think 1meg appears to be a workable minimum listening speed, even though it is streaming up on a 400k upstream.