Have to admit I'm still pondering the best way to handle this promotional
stream especially in light of TuneIn's incompetence. Either way I think it
needs to tune outside of the studio environment.
Nick are the stream contents now finished?
On 18 April 2018 20:30:04 BST, sarah <sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I still need to refresh myself of everything Nick so I need a bit if a
practise when I get back.
Howard Martin is asking when stream will go live. He wants to hear his
ad amongst it whish is pretty reasonable and wants to advertise the
stream.
Sarah
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message --------From: Nick Apps
<nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 18/04/2018 17:40 (GMT+00:00) To:
hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [hrock] Re: test stream
1st all must apoligise to Jon . it is in fact its my
computer that keeps playing up ! playing wrong stuff with gaps all
today
again .
works again now as have reset. .
for this reason and because i can use my computer again for playlisting
etc. will be best to send the stream from our main streaming computer
and
this will be how it will be when we come on air. so then we can tell
tune in peeps to reset the stream to how it will be on air .
Sugest we switch over sat eve or sunday as got peeps practising
before that . Jon can do this remotley from home .
so simon best to contact tune in after that.
Nick,
From: sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 8:11 AM
To: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [hrock] Re: test stream
Thank
you Jon.
I understand...... I think.
Sarah
-----Original
Message-----
From: Tony Bell
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 6:06
AM
To: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [hrock] Re: test stream
Ha
haaaaaa,
Thanks Jon....... We are all just sheep, and need the shepherd
......... 😂
Yep, that clarifies everything, so the take away message
from this is: Nick,
stop fiddling! 😃 ........
Cheers,
Tony
Bell
Www.hastingsrock.co.uk
On 17 Apr 2018, at 20:13, jonbird <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
away for ONE day and Nick goes around making wild
ONE day - I go
assertions like "theserver went tits up", the server did not go tits up,
El Presidentturned his machine on and off again, on his own initiative
(although tobe fair, this is standard IT diagnostic approach) which
resulted insome network drives not restoring properly.
possible I may have confused myself and possibly everyone
Anyway, it's
else in theprocess with my terminology here so let me try and clarify
things. WhatI was referring to as the "test stream" is something we've
traditionally done on the run up to the broadcast which is leave the
studio PC in automation, executing a playlist for our consumption only
as
a test to make sure things are working properly. This is the link Iposted
on Sunday:connected to the desk.
http://streaming03.zfast.co.uk:8086/aac
which is just
phrase as "placeholder" is the
The other one, which I think I coined the
promo audio which is linked to from thewebsite and which (in theory) all
the other listening platforms pointto. Which is just on a short loop and
I think is now being referred toas the "test stream".
relevance to what I'm about to say
I'll also mention now, because it has
that based on the approach we tooklast broadcast, we generate two audio
streams - a low bit rate AACstream (which is basically the link I posted
above) and is ideal formobile devices and a higher bitrate, more standard
MP3one.
operating quite
One of the issues is that the "placeholder" stream isn't
how I originally envisaged it to be in that my originalassumption was
that this would be just a single MP3 audio file hostedon the website such
that when someone clicks on it (or a listeningplatform connects), it
simply plays it from beginning to end. Howeverthat's not how Nick wanted
to do it in that he wanted to keep addingbits to it and as such is now
running as a looped playlist in Playout,running on Nick's own PC. So
anyone listening to it will pick it upfrom wherever it happens to be in
the playlist. The problem with thisapproach is that it requires bandwidth
from our streaming server andtherefore is currently "stealing" the MP3
stream - which is why at thispoint we're limited to just using the AAC
one for our "test stream". Wedon't have the bandwidth to run another MP3
one whilst this is goingon.
showing up in the
Finally, the problem Nick was having with new audio not
stream is I think that he's using the Playout systemin an odd way to
operate this - it's effectively a short playlistcontinually looping and
he's then bolting new tracks on the end,without restarting it. I suspect
it's getting confused but I'vesuggested he restart it each time (which
shouldn't interrupt the audio)but which should reset everything into a
usable state.I hope that clarifies just about everything and sorry for the
confusion.
<9C73E40A47E64002B7EA49B786EAC018@Sarahlaptop>,
In article
sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes
yet.Tunein not working
Apps
Sarah
From: Nick
hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxSent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 3:01 PM
To:
streamSubject: [hrock] Re: test
stream and how to listen
Recond its time to public now about our test
Nick.in .
17, 2018 2:43 PM
From: Tony Bell
Sent: Tuesday, April
[hrock] Re: test streamTo: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:
J
hrock-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:hrock-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
From:
Behalf Of Nick Apps
hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxSent: 17 April 2018 14:36
To:
streamSubject: [hrock] Re: test
!
WE ARE BACK ON
.
jon text me how to fix it
nick.
Apps
From: Nick
AM
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 10:41
Subject: [hrock] Re: test stream
To: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes the problem is this end . I've been away and come back to find
caldron, which holds the audio disk has gone tits up
.
something from a few days ago with 6
play out seemed to latch on to
nothing !second pauses . but now
solution but he's away for for a couple of
i have text Jon for a
days.
diffent problem at their end it seems
however Tune in is a
?.
nick.
sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From:
AM
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 8:24
Subject: [hrock] Re: test stream
To: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
The Streema one still seems to be playing an old test stream and
loads
morning.of
pauses as of this
good.
When it worked on Sunday it seemed really
my computer wants to
When I click on Jon's link to the test stream all
that is), which of course fails. Am I doingdo is
download aac (whatever
wrong?something
start
I am assuming when we get this all sorted we will
that?publicising.....just
wondering when we can do
Message-----
Sarah
-----Original
2018 7:56 AMFrom: Tony Bell
Sent: Tuesday, April 17,
Re: test streamTo: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [hrock]
Listening in this morning to this stream below, so far, sounds good,
Morning all,
no
thispauses, everything flows, interesting choice of tunes! (Is
database?)playlisted
Nick, or random from Music
Tune-in stream to "sync
Out of interest, how long to do we leave the
them?up"
before we get in touch with
Tony
Rgds
From: hrock-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:hrock-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;
-----Original Message-----
On
22:44Behalf Of sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 16 April 2018
streamTo: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [hrock] Re: test
silence now between clips
Been checking out the test stream. Loads of
intentional?of
audio..... was that
running close together with no
I thought it sounded better with clips
between. Doesn't flow now.long
pregnant pauses
-----Original Message-----
Sarah
April 15, 2018 5:10 PMFrom: jon bird
Sent: Sunday,
[hrock] test streamTo: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:
up then and we have a working test
I see Nick has got everything wired
at...stream which is
http://streaming03.zfast.co.uk:8086/aac
one going out on the website, it's purely for our
this *isn't* the
internal
as we fiddleconsumption and of course will be subject to interruptions
--around with stuff.
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