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!
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