Yes, folks, that's right. FX Radio has been dead for six months, but it's back, with an all-new machine, more sound effects (including additional breaky noises), and everything!
You may be asking yourself "What, exactly, is FX Radio, and why would I want to listen?" To answer your questions, it's a rather strange concept that Derek and I came up with in the summer of 2005, 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 crap load of high quality sound effects libraries into each winamp, making sure, of course, that everything is perfectly 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 odd combinations of things that occur. Have you ever seen a bird driving a car under water, all the while being chased by a telephone? Or, perhaps, little kids playing in underwater construction sites? How about babies with power tools, dogs driving trains, tanks plowing through restaurants, sheep making things blow up just for the fun of it, or what's currently playing, which happens to be a mocking bird with a machine gun shooting at a helicopter? 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 0.9 or higher. If you have a compatible player, put in one of the following addresses: shoutcast: http://fx.pdaudio.net:80 icecast (less delay, may buffer more depending on your situation): 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. Really, if you're still using it, you're bad, since that format has been officially scrapped by it's developers! The icecast feed will work, even with the Thompson mp3 decoder, however, since the .aac extension will not be passed off to the mp3 pro decoder. Also, since 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, or something worse? Close your eyes, put on some headphones, tune in, and get ready for a very strange, and altogether different experience! Note: P&D Audio Productions is not responsible for any permanent psychological or neurological damage that may occur as a result of any individual who falls asleep with FX Radio on. No warranty is implied, expressed, congested, molested, suggested, conjugated, emulated, isolated infiltrated, confiscated, or any of that mess. Basically, if bad things happen, we didn't do it! It's back, and it's possibly worse than ever... Better? Well, it can't get much worse, I suppose, so we'll pretend it's better than it was, just out of interest. P.S. An Athlon64 3400 with a gig of ram and a 250 GB hard drive is a bit overkill for this project, at least as a dedicated box for said project. Oh well... I'm going to bed! -- -- Patrick Perdue (MCP, CNA) KE4DYI Greensboro, NC website: http://www.pdaudio.net home: +1(828)475-4004 Mobile phone and SMS: +1(336)509-5583 e-mail and .net messenger: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> aim: noaptiva -------------------- For anything related to the yamaha motif line of keyboards and modules, subscribe to the motif-help mailing list by sending a blank message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Composition of this message started on Monday, June 18, 2007 at 2:56 AM EDT. Did you miss a message? Well, don't. http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/ has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again.
