Cooperative Radio Station

[|Alky|]

Hey there guys ^_^
I happened to be playing around with shoutcast while in #ags, and I discovered (well I knew it already in some cases) that many people have stations of their own. However, these stations are often poorly attended, rarely run and not established except within a person's circle of aquaintances. That is not to say they're not excellent, I throughly enjoy listening to other people's musical playlists, especially if they add commentary to them (a la Obi Leo) or if haven't heard of them before (a la DasJoe's awesome German Indie). So, I happened to comment that I wished there was a way for other people to access my server, which I rarely am able to use, to provide music, and keep people interested when I'm away... And Gal pointed out that I could.. So earlier today I tested it with Obi and now with Das Joe as I speak. I figured this could actually be a permanent thing; I have a fixed IP, and I leave my computer on so people can see my Away messages anyway ^_^ So, I asked a couple of awesome people in #ags if they'd like to help, and I ask you all now if you'd like to contribute some time... All's you need is a recent version of winamp, a relatively well-labelled and interesting mp3 connection, and the ability to choose a playlist to be put on at a certain time. I already have a few folks willing to help me out, with a myriad of different tastes and nationalities, and I think this could easily attain the status of 'awesome'. I obviously don't want this to become too high profile, but I'd kinda like to give it a name and website... so, uh, what do you thing would be good? So far, I have the following suggestions from people:
Radio AGS (since this unofficial, I don't really want to use that)
Adventure Radio
[Ad|Rad]
K.B.P.S. as in (kb/s)
Radio Free Tommorow
Alphonics
Radio Where's Alky?
Radio New International
[Radio] International Adventure Audio (RIAA ^_^)

Anyhow, anyone got anything? Or opinions? Yes, I know this isn't technically legal, but disclaimers can do wonders, and there are literally thousands of stations out there as far as I know. And it's purely not for profit; it simply aims to broaded musical horizons of adventure gamers (it's practically a charity). I remember 'Gal telling me to download Catch 22 (now my favourite band ^_^), getting hotspot excited by sending him a skateboard song and recieving pro audio tracks by Trapezoid, Haddas and Iqu (all AGS users). So I think this could be a good thing. And maybe somebody can do an AGS info/news show eventually? The internet is expanding, and with many AGS users having DSL or better (I now have Cable, after years of complaining ^_^) we can do far more stuff. And maybe even still make games... ^_^

[veryweirdguy]

I have nothing to say except that you used ^_^ six times in that post.

SIX FRIGGIN TIMES?!??!?!?!?!

Disclaimer:

[Flippy_D]

If someone can help me navigate past my overzealous firewall I can share my slightly fogey-ish selection with th'world, certainly.

[Pelican]

Sounds cool. I like the [Ad|Rad]. It looks funky.

As for music, I don't know if anyone would be interested in my music collection. Seeing as I pinch my dad's old LPs. My music tastes are several decades old. Lol.

[ghostface]

Yeah. Um, look at my music icon. I can help. However, sometimes I'm a busy, busy man.

[m0ds]

If I can have an hour slot then I'm all for it.



And if Larry can have one too...

[Pet Terry]

Play Lemon Demon's songs in the radio and I will listen to it.

[Al_Ninio]

(Hey, Alky, you're supposed to PM me the stuff about my slot, kthx).

[DragonRose]

I think it's an awesome idea.  I wouldn't mind doing a show, though you'd have to put up with my bizzare collection of comedy tracks.

[Haddas]

Yes, it'd be awesome with ags radio!

[Eggie]

Sounds pretty cool. Make sure one of you remembners to play the AGS operas/shows.
Oooh, maybe AGS game reviews.
Y'know. Just to justify calling AGS Radio.

[Privateer Puddin']

Play Lemon Demon's songs in the radio and I will listen to it.

Yes. Do that.

[rtf]

I could probably do a weekly slot using the AGS Operas, some AGS Game themes, and songs from "The Singing Game" and stuff like that.

It could be called "RTF's Super Happy Fun AGS-Releated Hour of Fun!" (or the next best offer  )

[Al_Ninio]

Radio is UP UP UP.
I'm currently DJing, and Petteri is up next.
Temporary URL, as Alky's shoutcast server appears to be dead:
RADIO!
Listen, please.
We will love you for EVER.

[Haddas]

Hurray! This is awesome!

[DragonRose]

Ooo... I'm quite liking this!  Some songs like "In der ÿberzahl" (what does that mean, anyway? What language is it?) I would never listen to on my own, but I quite like them.

[Pet Terry]

That's dasjoe's playlist on at the moment. I'm assuming those are German songs.

My "show", ThePetShop, was on today and it went fine. At first I had only an hour long playlist, but I kept going on longer. Listener peak was as high as 6! I'm planning to play more music tomorrow, people seemed to like my playlist. So look forward to ThePetShop tomorrow, somewhere around 17:00 - 18:00 GMT most likely.

It's working quite nice I think. Maybe we just need more people to play their playlist so that one people don't have to play all the time.

[Gfunkera]

I get an error loading this link? It loads the page but the applet fails? I have the newest winamp and java 

Stream IRC: http://www.shoutcast.com/chat.phtml?dc=%23adradio

And what about this link what is this one for it dosnt work either...  (atleast for me)


Stream URL: http://hx.bounceme.net:8000/hx.bounceme.net

It says "Invalid resource" when clicked...

[Al_Ninio]

Just click 'listen', not 'stream URL'...

Also, new URL.
RADIO!

(omgwtflol 400th post. Imagine a picture of me, moving).

[Vel]

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