Hi Martin No, we're having a horrendous technical issue which I cannot seem to resolve. To explain, we use a difigal/analogue sound device as our external sound card so that the screen-reader doesn't get superimposed upon the audio to the station. The sound device suddenly stopped playing nice with us yesterday and so we cannot get our service up. The odd thing is that Windows is seeing the device just fine. It even lets me define it as the default audio device, but that's not much use.
Gordon On 20 Dec 2012, at 03:41, Martin G. McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: In my last message, I was joking a little but I am serious, now. I am accessing the shoutcast server via mplayer which is a pretty decent application used in Linux to play movies and internet radio as well as many other file and stream formats. I am not sure if it handles shoutcast streams, however, so my question is should it be working now? If I can't get the stream, it may not mean anything except that mplayer can't play shoutcast. I meant to try it from safari on the Mac I use at work, but I got busy doing what I get payed to do so didn't get around to trying the sparkle link from there. If I get on to the home page using lynx as in L Y N X, the home page message states that the status of the server is currently down. If that is accurate, I'll just try it later. I would be surprised if mplayer can't play the stream. It usually can but getting it the right url is sometimes the fun part especially if a lot of javascript is involved. Martin Gordon Smith writes: > Hi Martin > > I'm just doing technical work, adding more music and most of all, > refining the way the station IDs work. > > On 18 Dec 2012, at 12:31, Martin G. McCormick > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I went there at 6:30 CST or 12:30 UTC today December 18 and the > server reported its status as down. This actually does give you > something to listen to if you like sixties music. Try "The > sounds of Silence." > > > I'l give it another try when it is back up. > > Martin > > Gordon Smith writes: >> Hi all >> >> I wonder whether some kind sole could possibly spare us five minutes or >> so of their valuable time. We need a third party to test out our new >> Shoutcast feed to see how they find the quality. We're not too worried >> about content just at the moment, as the system is automated and far > from >> totally refined. However, if some kind person would be willing to help, >> we'd be very grateful. I am setting this up alongside of the hospital >> radio service in which I am now involved. Part of the reason behind > this >> is that we are hoping to establish a community station for our entire >> town next year, and I've already been asked to participate. In fact, we >> take it so seriously that everybody, including myself, has had to > undergo >> a "CRV" check, (Criminal Record Verification". They check thoroughly >> into your background and make sure that there is no unlawful history >> associated with your personal records. Happily I passed the test with >> flying colours and am now not only a basic member, but an >> enhanced member. Anyway, I digress. If somebody wouldn't mind please >> please pretty please just tuning our way for a few very short minutes to >> let us know how you find the audio quality and whether the signal is >> solid with you, we would be extremely grateful. I am adding things like >> playing now and song requesting to our website, all of which will be > good >> experience for when we get the real deal up and running early next year. >> >> The URL you'd need to test from is below. Please don't worry about the >> station IDs. We are aware that they are out of sync with what we are >> actually playing. That is going to get fixed in the very near future. >> And finally, to whom ever it may concern, please accept our thanks. >> >> OK, the website for Sparkle radio is here but please don't try the song >> requester, it isn't functioning yet: >> >> Sparkle Radio website: >> <http://www.sparkle-radio.net/Index.html> >> please note that the URL is case sensitive. The listen link for the >> audio can be directly accessed here: >> <http://listen.sparkle-radio.net:8120> >> >> To anybody who offers help, please accept our thanks. 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