Zelaron Radio?

I remember talking to Chruser about it and we both agreed it would be a good thing. The only real problem I remember with it is that there was some law passed recently that would make it very difficult to do this. I can't remember the specifics, but Chruser probably could explain it.

I remember talking to Chruser about it and we both agreed it would be a good thing. The only real problem I remember with it is that there was some law passed recently that would make it very difficult to do this. I can't remember the specifics, but Chruser probably could explain it.

Pressure from net radio supporters on U.S. congressional representatives and senators resulted in changes to this law, so net radio is saved for now:

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/m...ers_face_music
http://www.savenetradio.org

As for the Zelaron Radio, I prefer live streams over podcasts. The latter would hardly qualify as radio as much as a library of previously uploaded news, commentary and music. Listen to it once, then it gets old. With a live stream, we could have:

• A music directory Zelaron members can log onto via FTP and upload music to. The server would then automatically play (stream) the music found in the directory, so everyone can tune in with Winamp / Media Player and listen 24/7.
  
  
• Live shows / DJ sessions on schedule. Basically, a "DJ" would send whatever Winamp is playing to the server, which in turn forwards it to all listeners. This temporarily overrides the automatic stream mentioned above.

Of course, we would need a server with a fast connection to transfer, say, a 96 or 128 kbps stream to every listener. With 20 listeners, that's 1920 - 2560 kbps, or roughly around 2 mbps upstream. The Zelaron server could definitely handle the load, but I don't know what WetWired thinks about the idea (it's his server). Otherwise, if anyone is willing to donate their bandwidth, it will work fine too.

Software-wise, SHOUTcast and Icecast (Linux) should be fine. Both are free options, although I'm convinced we'll have to come up with a clever solution to use the auto-play music in directory approach.

I do very much like your idea for users uploading their own music. Though that makes me wonder how abused that could be. What if someone uploads a bunch of barney and teletubbies and shit.

Warn/temp. ban them? I don't think we have anybody that immature around here.

I don't think that's really a problem as you could tell who logged on when and when files were added.

The Zelaron server has relatively little server space on fast hard drives. Uploading large amounts of music to it is out of the question. The music would have to be stored elsewhere.

I'm setting up a temporary shoutcast server with FTP uploads for testing purposes. Does anyone have a plugin or a method for Winamp to automatically update its playlist from a music directory when content is added or removed? A periodic playlist updater would work too.

A test stream is up: http://radio.zelaron.com/listen.pls

Winamp or some other decent player is needed to listen. If the link above doesn't work, go here and click Listen:

http://85.224.124.24:8000

(If the first link didn't work, let me know.)