RE: FN-FORUM Internet Radio

date posted 16th December 2001 19:10

Carl
you must be working with Mike Jolliffe over there,
say hi when you next see him. Internet Radio
depends solely on how many people you are trying
to reach and whether you need to register it, you
would if you're making folding stuff from
advertising out of playing music due for
royalties.

However if you want a small time niche market
thing you can set it up as easy as winking. I'm
not impressed with MP3, Windows Media Format
knocks it into a cocked hat as far as I'm
concerned, the file size for an hour and a half of
radio in WMA is a single 15 meg streaming file
that works with most players and is cross
platform. That's 28k stereo which is perfect for
streaming to an audience that are not all wired up
with cable modems and the quality I'm told from
listeners to us in America is great. We stream out
of California and have an audience of around 500
for each show we do.

The recipe mix is one computer, sound card,
software to record the wav file (Sound Forge and a
few others do the business) a decent mike into a
mixer into the graphics card. From the wav file
you go to a wma file. The encoder unlike MP3
encoding is free. I guess Bill's trying to knock
out the opposition . . .

We get our music sent direct from the artists
themselves encouraging us to play it, we go out
and record with a mini disc and get cracking
quality. Its all done for fun but it has its
moments like being able to traverse America
without resort to them strip mall motel chains . .
.

Raggamuffin Mike
www.ragamuffin.fsbusiness.co.uk/ragaradiohome.htm