Archive for July, 2006

[html] I've spent most of this evening testing out audio streaming on my redundant test server. I gotta tell you, it's pretty sweet. The principle is actually quite simple, you have a "DJ" at home on a normal PC playing music on their media player (in this case WinAmp) which uses their internet connection to transmit the music to a server (which has the correctly configured software on it) which then acts as the "transmitter" that other people can connect to in order to hear the broadcast.

Well, what's the point in going via a server? The point is that the average Joe's internet connection can only upload (send to the internet) a small amount of information at any one time because their upstream connection is so "weak". If lots and lots of other people suddenly want to listen to that person's broadcast then Joe's internet connection is going to take such a battering that it'd render it useless and none of the listeners would get anything like a decent, audible broadcast. A server on the otherhand is design to have a much stronger internet connection (100mbit in my case) which is 400 times faster than the average residential connection which obviously means that the person making the broadcast can reach a far wider audience but also keep their home bandwidth low while the server does the grunt work.

It was a bitch to make work, but now that it's done it's quite easy to use and so far there are three streams on there for three different stations! Woot!
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[html] so it's a new look, everything has changed, and it's all integrated into one slick layout which makes everything look pretty serrwish, especially the gallery.

I really doo need to actually write something of worth here. there's just so much that's been happening over the past few months that I don't really know where to start. given that it's nearly 5am and I have work in four hours i'm not in the best of moods to go delving into recent events, but I will soon. I promise to myself.

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Ok, so, I'm back! (well not really, yet) I just finished running the script to merge all my previous blogs together, and now it seems to be all working just fine. So I thought I'd write this wee entry to make sure everything is just fine and dandy before I go off and write a huge big long entry someday soon.
Woot!
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