Amusingly, this doesn't work in mplayer, under either Linux or Windows. But it's supposed to. Oh well? "FX Radio: Windows only, because Linux is *broken*." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Perdue Sent: June 8, 2006 7:02 PM To: talk2 Subject: The Talk2 List Announcing the official launch of FX Radio!
What is FX Radio? Well, it's a concept that Derek Lane and I came up with last summer when we were both rather bored. Basically, it's the result of what happens when you load three instances of winamp equipped with crossfaders, then load a whole ton of high quality sound effects libraries into each winamp, making sure, of course, that everything is randomized. The sequence of events that can happen as a result of this are rather strange, and many interesting things can happen to your mind as a result of listening to the random combinations of odd things that occur. Have you ever seen a bird driving a car under water, all the while being shot at by a telephone? Or, perhaps, little kids playing in underwater construction sites? How about frogs that make things explode, sheep making things blow up, or machine guns blasting through a calm cafe, all the while everyone seems to be oblivious to the fact that they are being shot at, and, in fact, don't seem to mind very much? All these things can and have been known to happen on FX Radio, all sound effects, all the time, 24 hours a day! To tune in, you will need a streaming media player compatible with AAC+ streaming, such as Winamp (5.1 or higher, except 5.22 which has a bug that breaks AAC streams), VLC Mediaplayer, or Foobar 2000. If you have a compatible player, go to one of the following addresses: shoutcast: http://fx.pdaudio.net:80 icecast: http://tbrn.net:8888/fx.aac Note: If you are using the Thompson mp3 pro decoder for Winamp, the shoutcast stream will not work unless it is disabled. The icecast feed will, however, since the .aac extention will not be passed off to the mp3 pro decoder. The bandwidth is low enough such that you can listen with either a dial-up or broadband connection. Either way, you'll still get the same great quality that AAC+ streaming provides. Also, as the shoutcast server is on port 80, this means you can listen to FX Radio behind any proxy server that only allows access to http, such as universities and other institutions. Yes, a nice distraction during class might be good, don't you think? Why not freak out your friends, classmates or co-workers while you're at it? Maybe all of the above? Close your eyes, put on some headphones, tune in, and get ready for a very strange, and altogether different experience! It's FX Radio! No, really?
