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Title: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7
Post by: orb85750 on December 15, 2009, 08:57:11 PM: Is everyone aware of The MOD Station, launched in November?

http://themodstation.org/
Title: Re: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7
Post by: ZeBeeDee on December 15, 2009, 11:02:56 PM: We are now :)
Title: Re: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7
Post by: Akiko on December 15, 2009, 11:48:49 PM: Nice :)

Can be made play with TuneNet?
Title: Re: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7
Post by: Cammy on December 16, 2009, 01:19:26 AM: Geat idea, and cool site... but what's with the JPEG images?! Haven't people learned by now to use lossless image formats for images less than 24bit? Those Workbench windows would look so much nicer as PNGs.

Wait... they ARE PNGs! So this means they were saved as low-quality JPEGs, loaded back in, and resaved as PNGs with all the horrible JPEG artifacts in them.
Title: Re: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7
Post by: LoadWB on December 16, 2009, 02:12:29 AM: Quote from: Cammy;534021
Geat idea, and cool site... but what's with the JPEG images?! Haven't people learned by now to use lossless image formats for images less than 24bit? Those Workbench windows would look so much nicer as PNGs.

Wait... they ARE PNGs! So this means they were saved as low-quality JPEGs, loaded back in, and resaved as PNGs with all the horrible JPEG artifacts in them.

Go easy on the poor guy. He has accurately recreated the Amiga experience a la composite :)
Title: Re: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7
Post by: Cammy on December 16, 2009, 05:46:45 AM: Hehe, sorry I didn't mean to seem harsh, the site is nice and useful, and sure does have that look of an old TV. Little things like that have always just bugged me, I should keep it to myself, sorry.
Title: Re: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7
Post by: Dr.Bongo on December 30, 2009, 08:39:23 PM: Missed this thread originally!
Hi all, I'm the owner/operator/dogsbody of The MOD Station. I was waiting to announce the station until I had it fully functional., there's a big content update coming very soon and also the ability to request music directly into the stream. Stay tuned.

p.s (cammy :) ) the front end site will be corrected and redesigned with the update.
pp.s the request update will also be applied to The SID staion, for you 64 nuts.
Title: Re: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7
Post by: T3000 on December 30, 2009, 09:07:33 PM: awesome job Bongo! Would be cool if the pic displayed on the lower right coincides with the track being played.
Title: Re: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7
Post by: Dr.Bongo on December 30, 2009, 09:15:05 PM: Quote from: T3000;535483
awesome job Bongo! Would be cool if the pic displayed on the lower right coincides with the track being played.

I agree and had already thought of that but, I can't find a way of making it update with the stream info. Not sure it's at all possible.
If anyone out there thinks they know how, let me know :)
Title: Re: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7
Post by: Skippy on December 30, 2009, 09:35:43 PM: Quote from: Dr.Bongo;535484
I agree and had already thought of that but, I can't find a way of making it update with the stream info. Not sure it's at all possible.
If anyone out there thinks they know how, let me know :)

I know you're using the mpga audio codec, but does your media streaming engine allow you the facility of perhaps display a "cd cover" + audio file that way you could display the image inside the media player.

You could use x-ms-asf as a container to then stream video/audio if the bandwidth is not much greater it might be a feasible option.

There's some old code here that maybe of use: http://amigarealm.whdownload.com/various/webcam.htm

/me listens to The ModStation.
Title: Re: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7
Post by: Skippy on December 30, 2009, 10:08:12 PM: On the links page: http://themodstation.org/links.php

Could I suggest maybe adding [ target="new" ]

IE:
Lemon Amiga - Great source of information

Otherwise the selected website link loads inside your . </dd> <dt class="postheader"> Title: <strong>Re: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7</strong><br /> Post by: <strong>Dr.Bongo</strong> on <strong>December 30, 2009, 10:24:30 PM</strong> </dt> <dd class="postbody"> @Skippy on your first post: I had considered the album art angle, but never got it to work. Think I'll haver another look as the request engine will totally change the way the station streams. Thanks for the link too... reads.<br /><br />On the point of the links, yep you're right. Consider yourself a beta tester :) changes will be made.<br /> <br />Not to make exuses for myself but although the passion for doing this is there, I've had to learn it all from scratch (including web design/programming) so any help or critisism is greatly appriciated. </dd> <dt class="postheader"> Title: <strong>Re: Streaming Amiga Music 24/7</strong><br /> Post by: <strong>Skippy</strong> on <strong>December 30, 2009, 11:17:15 PM</strong> </dt> <dd class="postbody"> <div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: Dr.Bongo;535492</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">the request engine will totally change the way the station streams. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br /><br />I wasn't aware at first you were using the SHOUTcast software, so yeah, it would require a complete restructure of service delivery. </dd> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[ var lpLoaded = false, inConflict = false; function compareJQueryVersion(v1, v2, callback) { var v1parts = v1.split(); var v2parts = v2.split(); for (var i = 0; i < v1parts.length; ++i) { if (v2parts.length == i) { //v1 + " is larger" callback(1); return; } if (v1parts[i] == v2parts[i]) { continue; } else if (v1parts[i] > v2parts[i]) { //v1 + " is larger"; callback(1); return; } else { //v2 + " is larger"; callback(2); return; } } if (v1parts.length != v2parts.length) { //v2 + " is larger"; callback(2); return; } callback(false); return; } function loadJquery(url, callback) { var script = document.createElement("script"); script.type = "text/javascript"; script.src = url; var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0], done = false; script.onload = script.onreadystatechange = function() { if (!done && (!this.readyState || this.readyState == "loaded" || this.readyState == "complete")) { done = true; callback(); script.onload = script.onreadystatechange = null; head.removeChild(script); }; }; head.appendChild(script); } // Only do anything if jQuery isn"t defined if (typeof(jQuery) == "undefined") { console.log("jquery not found"); if (typeof($) == "function") { console.log("jquery but in conflict"); inConflict = true; } loadJquery("https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.min.js", function() { if (typeof(jQuery) !=="undefined") { console.log("directly loaded with version: " + jQuery.fn.jquery); lp_jquery2_0_3 = jQuery.noConflict(true); loadLPScript(); } }); } else { // jQuery is already loaded console.log("jquery is already loaded with version: " + jQuery.fn.jquery); compareJQueryVersion(jQuery.fn.jquery, "2.0.3", function(result) { console.log("result of version check: " + result) switch(result) { case false: case 1: lp_jquery2_0_3 = jQuery; loadLPScript(); break; case 2: loadJquery("https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.min.js", function() { if (typeof(jQuery) !=="undefined") { console.log("after version check loaded with version: " + jQuery.fn.jquery); lp_jquery2_0_3 = jQuery.noConflict(true); loadLPScript(); } }); break; default: loadJquery("https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.min.js", function() { if (typeof(jQuery) !=="undefined") { console.log("default version check loaded with version: " + jQuery.fn.jquery); lp_jquery2_0_3 = jQuery.noConflict(true); loadLPScript(); } }); break; } }) }; function loadLPScript() { var js = document.createElement("script"); js.type = "text/javascript"; js.src = "https://forum.amiga.org/Themes/default/scripts/LikePosts/LikePosts.min.js"; js.onload = function() { lpObj.likePostsNotification.init({ txtStrings: { "lpAllNotification": "All Notification", "lpMyPosts": "My Posts", "lpNoNotification": "Nothing to show at the moment" } }); } document.body.appendChild(js); } // ]]></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[ var sisyphusKey = "topic-50730-reply"; // ]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://forum.amiga.org/Themes/default/scripts/sisyphus.js"></script> </dl> <div id="footer" class="smalltext"> <span class="smalltext" style="display: inline; visibility: visible; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="?action=credits" title="Simple Machines Forum" target="_blank" class="new_win">SMF 2.0.19</a> | <a href="https://www.simplemachines.org/about/smf/license.php" title="License" target="_blank" class="new_win">SMF © 2021</a>, <a href="https://www.simplemachines.org" title="Simple Machines" target="_blank" class="new_win">Simple Machines</a> | <a id="button_agreement" href="https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?action=agreement"><span>Terms and Policies</span></a> </span> </div> </body> </html>