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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Audiodef Online <[email protected]>wrote:
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> My goal is to run several streams of electronic music, all of which I hope
> will have lengthy playlists. In addition, I will include the music of of
> community members. So I would need tens of GBs to start, potentially
> hundreds later. I just can't afford that, so I need to either use remote
> files or seek sponsorship (both of which I'm working on).
>
> On 09/28/11 02:52, Brandon Casci wrote:
>
> Caching the files is the ideal way to handle this. I do it myself. How much
> storage space do you think you need? Generally speaking extra storage is
> pretty affordable.
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Audiodef Online <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Romain,
>>
>> I actually thought of that, but what I really want to do is create
>> streams by genre. I think a good way to deal with slow downloads might
>> be to have a fallback playlist instead of a fallback single, where the
>> fallback playlist is a small collection of local (and thus infallible)
>> files.
>>
>> I could do a fallback playlist, right? How do I do that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Damien
>>
>> On 09/27/11 23:21, Romain Beauxis wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > 2011/9/24 Audiodef Online <[email protected]>:
>> >> I'm in the process of setting up radio streams via liquidsoap that use
>> >> playlists consisting entirely of remote files. I could use some advice
>> >> on a particular point.
>> >>
>> >> There's one site with a lot of music that I would like to add to my
>> >> streams, but unfortunately will have to pass, because this site has a
>> >> lot of large files (which is not a show-stopper) and appears to have a
>> >> slow connection (large files PLUS slow connection... not so keen on
>> >> that). Files are downloaded at an average of 30 KB/sec from this site.
>> I
>> >> have FIOS, so I know it's not my connection that's slow.
>> >>
>> >> I'm wondering where I should put my cutoff. Obviously, it should be
>> >> above 30 KB/sec. This is really slow. Should I make it 100 KB/sec? 500?
>> >> 1 MB/sec? This will help me later when I allow community members to
>> >> recommend new material for the radio streams, at which point I mosey
>> >> over to the recommendation and see how fast the connection is on that
>> site.
>> > I have no real idea about the numbers here.. However, have you though
>> > about mixing streams? You could have a slow stream, playing files
>> > downloaded from the slow site, mixed with a fast stream, which would
>> > take over while the slow stream gets ready..
>> >
>> > Romain
>> >
>>
>>
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