From: Simon H
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 6:44 PM
To: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [hrock] Re: Streaming "placeholder"
As promised I have sent a request for us to be added to the following:
Internet Radio Portals:Reciva, Pure
Internet Radio Apps: Streema, vtuner, tunein
The most onerous of these being tunein where you have to sign up to all sorts
of conditions which I have done, so I hope we have the music license to cover
this? They also put advertising in the stream, at least at the start so I find
it rather irritating in my view.
The only major player I have problems with are Frontier Silicon, which provide
the chips in current Roberts sets (and others). As Roberts is quite a popular
make I think Frontier should be contacted. The trouble is you have to have a
set and I do not have one. My Roberts has a Receva chipset so I can (have)
added us to their database but I cannot add us to Frontier.
If anyone has a later Roberts internet radio or other set containing Frontier
Silicon technology, then here is the link to set up an account where you can
then add our stream. Please let us all know if you can help and if/when you
have completed the task.
http://www.wifiradio-frontier.com/setupapp/fs/asp/authlogin/RegForm.asp?lngy=eng
The stream url is:
http://www.hastingsrock.co.uk/32k-aac.pls
The other big portal here in the UK is Radio Player. I contacted them in 2013
and they require payment (£99 annually at that time) and could not come down
due to agreements with those who funded it in the first place (BBC and major
commercial players) even though we are only on a short time. However, it might
be good for us to be there as its UK based (none of the apps listed above are)
and carries no advertising - except any the station itself chooses to add. It
is also heavily promoted so is perhaps not a lot of money in the overall scheme
of things. I have not done so as yet but will contact them again if you wish?
Perhaps we could get someone to sponsor it, then we would have to add our own
message at the start! Thoughts please.
http://www.radioplayer.co.uk/for-stations
There are loads of portals for TVs and other connected devices but we cannot
cover them all so listeners will have to add us themselves if they want to use
anything a bit obscure. We will only cover the major players.
So just a matter of waiting for a response from those contacted so far.
regards,
Simon.
On 26/03/18 21:47, Nick Apps wrote:
We seem to be have taken off tune in ?
there was a message on the a week ago saying this station is not providing
audio and to get in touch but i assume simon has done that by now?
From: jon bird
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 5:33 PM
To: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [hrock] Streaming "placeholder"
Hi all,
Back a good number of meetings ago we agreed to put a "placeholder"
audio recording on our web server and point the Internet streams at it.
That way anyone tuning in outside the broadcast would get a helpful
ditty explaining we're not on air and when we are on air, we seamlessly
switch it over to the live feed. This also means Simon doesn't have to
keep updating TuneIn etc. with new feeds every year.
I think this was left with me to (technically) make it happen (which is
probably why it's not come up again) however we need someone to actually
make said ident such that I actually implement this. It's probably
because no one individual actually got this part of the job that it's
fallen off the radar. Anyway, since we're now going ahead I think this
needs to be done as a matter of urgency since as Simon will tell you, it
takes some time for the Internet radio servers to catch up. Plus it'll
serve as a bit of self promotion should anyone actually tune it as we
can tell them when we are actually on air....
In other news, I dug out the server from the loft yesterday and yep,
it's packed up. So I'm going to need to buy a new machine now.... One
day things will just work when I dig them out of mothballs (anyone else
miss "toaster", than old 266 lasted for years and was practically
indestructible, the only thing that finally did for it was dodgy power
at the Robert). I should be able to get something suitable for under
£100 if that's ok everyone?
j.
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regards,
Simon.
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