I've punted a request through the Fontier portal to get us added & will
keep an eye out to see if anything happens....
In article <171FC6A5-298B-45C3-B10B-38AA2FDCD0F6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jon bird <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
It looks like the Teac box I have here utilises the Frontier portal and
I registered on the site several years back to add a couple of streams
so I should be able to do it. I'll have a play and get back to you...
On 30 March 2018 18:44:26 BST, Simon H <sfhrock.sub@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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