Listening to the radio right now - just had an amber alert for a girl kidnapped, with a description of the car, napper, etc.
Also, occasionally there are other important feeds etc. AFAIK they do not broadcast these alerts on the internet, but if my local county or city did set up a shoutcast server to do so, is there a way that slimserver could acknowledge it and switch from current playlist to that feed? Most people I'm guessing wouldn't want it, but they are something I do like to pay attention to - the amber alert, for example - the city the kidnapping happened in, I wouldn't be surprised if they did come through here on their way north - so it's good to know the car and description in the event that I see it - that's often how these sicko's get caught, and the first 48 hours is critical. I suppose one would have to configure their slimserver for the local shoutcast feed if one existed, and there would need to be a protocol by which slimserver knows the feed is active so it could switch. So it would probably require some sort of cooperation to create a standard. I would use it if the functionallity was there, though - and with how sucky most radio stations are now days, internet radio and mp3's are what people are listening to. I think there does need to be a way we can be reached in those scenarios - preferably by an opt in (IE I don't want to force it on people). -- http://mpeters.us/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
