I’m up for DSOTM play out after midnight. Cool idea. It is still the HR No1
Album of all time. (True we haven’t done another chart since but.....).
I haven’t used Zoom for anything but I do remember the BBC crashing the site
when dick head Vine tried to do a live thing with it. Not that we will have a
thousand or more people trying to log in.
Be interesting to hear if anyone has used it.
Andy Bantock May be a man to ask. Or perhaps Piers May be up to speed with it.
🤷♂️
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On 18 May 2020, at 14:10, sfhrock <sfhrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have just had another idea, along the lines of something a few friends and
myself participate from time to time.
One of us will invite the others to their house. We each bring along some
music, four or five songs. We also bring beer and Pizza is ordered. Basically
we have some food then go round the room , each playing one song we have
brought along to discuss / enjoy. Something perhaps like we all did as
youngster, sharing music with our friends. These days we call it 'Beer, Prog,
Pizza' as at the start it was limited to prog rock. However people in our
group have different tastes so it is more open now.
We have not done one for some time now of course.
So how about something along those lines, obviously without the food and the
beer. We each bring some music to the party? Something we can each talk about
or simply introduce it to share with our colleagues and listeners?
Just another idea?
Simon.
On 18/05/2020 13:43, sfhrock wrote:--
Andy,
Sounds like a good idea though be warned ....
I have used Zoom once when the DLWP had a staff meeting following lockdown.
Twenty four people 'attended' and it went very well. Many of the people were
not computer literate yet we all installed the app and connected to the
meeting. Once Zoom id installed, a meeting is easy to access by a simple
meeting ID sent out by the organiser. A great tool I thought but their is
one problem. The ease of access is its downfall. Security is very poor. The
only thing preventing anyone and his wife accessing it is the code.
We are not allowed to use it at work or for work related matters.
You may have heard in the news recently, there was a group called the 'tum
de dum society' (or something similar), an Archers fan club. They published
a meeting ID on twitter for one of their on-line get togethers. Big mistake.
Loads of people outside the group logged in exposing themselves, all sorts
of porn , whatever. They had to close the meeting. We obviously do not want
that!
Using Zoom therefore hinges on whether you can have two tiers of access, one
tier that can view but not participate (our audience) and another (us) that
can do both.
The meeting needs to be controlled so in our DLWP meeting, the chair asked
everyone to mute (otherwise the sound is chaotic). Then if you wanted to
speak, you raised your hand and would be invited by the chair. This worked
very well indeed.
I'm not sure Zoom will support music quality audio. It may be better in any
case to feed Zoom audio to our stream as part of a 'programme' of music, so
zoom sound is invited in rather than be the main programme output itself.
Obviously the Zoom part is only valid for those with a PC or phone so we
would need to remain aware that not everyone would be able to see.
How about this as an idea. We could do a sort of 'juke box jury'. Play a few
new songs perhaps and talk about them, voting 'hit' or 'miss with coloured
cards , red/blue or something. We would all have to be forewarned at least
of who the bands were, if not the songs, so we could do a bit of research
beforehand.
Just an Idea?
Simon.
On 18/05/2020 10:58, Andy Gunton wrote:
Morning all,--
As we're over half way through the broadcast I thought I'd raise the
subject of what we want to do on the final night, Friday 29th May.
We've left the programme schedule free for the final 5 hours just in case.
I know it was briefly mentioned a while ago about trying to do something a
little different during the final hours of the broadcast.
I seem to remember that some kind of Zoom (or similar) event was mentioned
that we could be try to do, which may enable some DJs to get involved who
haven't been able to do live shows this year, me for example 😉
I don't really have any experience with Zoom, which seems to be the most
popular way of going about this atm, so if anyone has any info about how
you go about using it, or any alternative options, please let us know.
How would we broadcast our possible Zoom chat so it fitted in with the
music, and so listeners could see us?
One problem with Zoom, as I understand it, is that it cuts out after approx
40 mins unless you have a Pro account, which I presume you pay for.
I think it would be great if we could do something along these lines, even
if it's for just a portion of the evening.
Of course, one difference to previous final nights is that we don't
actually have to finish at midnight....
One idea I did have as to how to actually end the broadcast would be to
play out the whole of 'Dark Side of The Moon', something we did a few years
ago when we finished with the Top 50 albums.
That went down very well, and it might be good to do that again as we're
not bound by our usual 'restrictions'.
Obviously someone would need to play it out via their CD player, but I'm
sure that's easy to sort out.
Just a thought.
It would be good to get this sorted, as best as possible, so that we can
start to announce it. Although I think if we did decide to play out DSOTM,
that we keep that bit under our hats until the time comes.
Any thoughts, or other ideas?
Cheers,
Andy
Andy Gunton
Phone: 07545 264247
Simon.
Simon.
