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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Dr.Bongo on May 07, 2011, 07:12:03 PM
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In-case anyone that's interested doesn't know about it,-
The MOD Station - Commodore Amiga music 24/7 for free!
Station has been around well over a year now, and has just had a decent content update with MUCH more to come over the next month. Game and demo music played in a rotational playlist.
Visit http://themodstation.org or search in SHOUTcast.
Cheers & enjoy
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Started doing something similar on my own site about a week back, didn't know there was a dedicated site out there already, looks nice but can you tell me how I can listen to the mods on my iMac here... :)
Sorry for being such a dummy but I can't seem to get it to play anything... :)
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@Franko
does the itunes link not work?
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@Franko
does the itunes link not work?
I didn't try that one cos I don't use iTunes (especially if it takes you to their store)... :(
On my site I just converted the mods to MP3 format and when folk go there they play automatically or the visitor can select from the list what to listen too and download them if they are a member, is that how your site works as I love listening to all those brilliant old mods... :)
CommodoreScotland.com MOD BOX (http://www.commodorescotland.com/#/mod-box/4550376276)
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awesome! works a treat!
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@Franko
It's a SHOUTcast station, same as it's sister site The SID Station (c64). You click on the link for your chosen media player (WMA,Winamp,Real,Qtl) and it plays in a rotational stream. If you can't get it to work please let me know, as I've no apple hardware to test it on. Cheers.
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@Franko
It's a SHOUTcast station, same as it's sister site The SID Station (c64). You click on the link for your chosen media player (WMA,Winamp,Real,Qtl) and it plays in a rotational stream. If you can't get it to work please let me know, as I've no apple hardware to test it on. Cheers.
Ahh.. I see... I did have RealPlayer but it's very flaky on Mac OSX10.5 I'll try streaming it in QuickTimePlayer and couple of others I have and see if I can get it to work in them... :)
Cheers
Franko
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Ahh.. I see... I did have RealPlayer but it's very flaky on Mac OSX10.5 I'll try streaming it in QuickTimePlayer and couple of others I have and see if I can get it to work in them... :)
Cheers
Franko
Your'e very welcome. Enjoy the stream :)
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@ Dr.Bongo
Clicking on things all I get are small text files download to the mac called "playlist.ram" and "listen.pls"...
I've tried pasting the URLS into both Safari & Quicktime player but nothing happens except on Safari where I get taken to page with ShoutCast D.N.A.S. Status and the listen tab when clicked just downloads the above mentioned files again...
QuicktimePlayer just comes up with not a valid URl and quits... :(
I'll need to scour the net and see what info I can find to get this up and running on a Mac... :)
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@Franko
Strange, in all the time this and the SID station has been online I've never had a complaint. I'm not Sure what to tell you.
If anyone wants to help out please say......
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@ Dr.Bongo
It's not a complaint... :D
I only use this mac for the net and don't know a lot about it (or the net for that matter) it's most likely I haven't installed something or I'm doing something wrong... :)
Usually a quick look round the various Mac forums solves these wee problems for me... :)
I'll let know when I get it working and just what I was doing wrong... ;)
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@Franko
I am a mac user and listen to the Mod station all the time.
First copy the link from the winamp link (http://cast5.serverhostingcenter.com/tunein.php/jotayl00/playlist.pls).
Then download VLC player from http://www.videolan.org/
Then open VLC and then select 'file' and 'open network...' paste the link and you are tuned in.
You can also use this method with quicktime player
@Dr.Bongo
Regarding the itunes link it seems to see the file as a quicktime one on mac. When I connect to this the stream refuses to work in quicktime.
Strangely I can run modstation in itunes and quicktime if I click the winamp link. Mac seems to like the .pls format.
Btw thanks for running the best station around, me and my friend listen to it constantly (big fans) and I always hear some great tunes if you need any help with the site or any mac testing let me know :D
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@Franko
I am a mac user and listen to the Mod station all the time.
Ahh... thanks for that info I've got VLC on my other iMac so I'll copy it over and give it a go... :D
PS:I Tried it in QuickTimePlayer Ver10.6.4 on OSX 10.5.8 but it kept coming up with "URL not Valid" other streams work in Quicktime but not this one... :(
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Oh that's very cool! When did this come about?
When i first saw Mod Station i thought it was going to be for all the sad Mod tossers like Karlos and Argo from retro forum sites talking about books or something.
Cheers! :)
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Oh cool! I just heard my favourite composer Tim Wrights "funeral" from SOTB2.
Has anyone heard the remix to "Forest" from Immortal? Simply amazing! :)
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Oh cool! I just heard my favourite composer Tim Wrights "funeral" from SOTB2.
Has anyone heard the remix to "Forest" from Immortal? Simply amazing! :)
Is that the gameover music ? If you like that tune this might be of interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-qaW2mLEsA (wasn't sure since funeral is a tune in sotb3).
another alternative for "module" recordings as mp3/ogg is my interface at http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Special:Modland - many formats tunes are streamable (encoded in realtime).
btw the modstation asx playlist didn't seem to work for me on windows. the pls was fine though. could have been a config issue i suppose although this was a vanilla windows 7 I had installed for testing.
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@Franko
I am a mac user and listen to the Mod station all the time.
First copy the link from the winamp link (http://cast5.serverhostingcenter.com/tunein.php/jotayl00/playlist.pls).
Then download VLC player from http://www.videolan.org/
Then open VLC and then select 'file' and 'open network...' paste the link and you are tuned in.
You can also use this method with quicktime player
Did all that and VLC complains 'Your input cannot be opened', and the error log shows:
main debug: net: connecting to 199.16.186.42 port 8611
main error: connection failed: Connection refused
access_mms error: cannot connect to 199.16.186.42:8611
Any ideas?
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Did all that and VLC complains 'Your input cannot be opened', and the error log shows:
main debug: net: connecting to 199.16.186.42 port 8611
main error: connection failed: Connection refused
access_mms error: cannot connect to 199.16.186.42:8611
Any ideas?
it's http not mms afaik. try opening http://199.16.186.42:8611 - works in mplayer for example.
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The versions I am using are all the latest updated versions for intel osx snow leopard. I would not know about previous version I guess you just need to play about and try.
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For media playing in general, if you want it to just work, use mplayer:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
its called "the movie player" but with codecs it plays everything and it does it well.
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It seems the station is dead now. Connecting to the stream results in "connection refused" error. The site http://themodstation.org contains no more than "Account suspended" message.