Music Internet Radio

Well I just tuned in to Hitokiradio. Pretty cool. I got to thinking, could it be done? A Pillows station would be pretty cool. But, would that be taking my Pillows MP3s a little too far?

I have actually paid for one of the albums, with one more to come, plus the Busters on the Planet DVD, I'm not a complete leech

Plus, could a station with a song cycle of only 113 songs really be viable? I gues I could jack up the count some by adding the FLCL remixes..

 

A Pillows Radio station sounds cool! Although you may not be able to put all the songs you want to on it. Live365 only gives you 100 megs to work with(it used to be 365 mb). The songs' sizes are split in half though if you convert them to 64 kbps... you can do that when you upload the music.


edit: Oh yeah, Live365 has some rule that you can only have 3 songs from one album per broadcast. Although they probably don't know who The Pillows are, so you're safe.



[This message has been edited by That guy! (edited 10-28-2001).]

 

As far as the limited track selection goes, don't worry about it. 100 tracks is still between 300 and 500 minutes of music, and who's gonna sit there and listen for longer than that anyway? If you have repeat problems, one popular pop station around here once played the same song twice in under 15 minutes, and most of the listeners didn't seem to notice. So, if your listeners are like the morons in Strathroy and London, you shouldn't have a problem.

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It could be because of your connection...
Internet Radio usually runs best on high speed(DSL, Cable, etc.).

Once the station becomes more popular I'll probably make a lower bitrate version, so you'll be able to listen to it easier. The reason why I didn't go with the low bps is because the sound quality is reduced significantly.

...Sorry

Hey Zanshi, I know quite a few intelligent people from London. But Strathroy...only you

 

Thanks for the info ThatGuy! Three per album.. hehe that limits me to 23 songs, plus 34 singles, maybe 3 more from FLCL album, and three more when I get Smile

I know 23 is not a multiple of three, but the best of album has only two original tracks

Of course, if I can change which songs are on it once in a while, i could go through them all eventually. That would also keep things switched up a bit.

 

Sounds great!
Another cool thing you can do with your playlist is make the songs in it play in a random order.

Although a problem I come upon some times with this is that some songs play like 5 times an hour.


(I'm confusin' myself...@_@x)



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I'm waiting for a reply from bigmog.com on how they scripted their page so it showed the song that is currently playing on the radio. Oh yeah, the song that probably had the "dead air" would be Initial D - Hyper Mega Mix. The last minute or so of my version has no music or anything... I'll look around for a better version and replace it.

edit: Damn, Bigmog says that they can't give out the script to anyone because it would slow down Live365's servers . Although I found the script online but for some reason I can't get it to work. Does anyone know how to do PHP scripting in Dreamweaver 2?


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Well I've changed the playlist recently, should I go with random play?

[This message has been edited by That guy! (edited 10-29-2001).]

 

I put the playlist into random play. So you won't be able to memorize what songs are coming next


Thanks Matt and everyone for listening to my station. I'll be sure to add some more tracks and add more songs later (errr, once this 8 page Computer essay is done *sighs*)