It’s good to know you’ve found a new home for level-1, congratulations…

dont worry mate i will hassle the ones here for you if they dont post up that they have done it in 3 days time :groucho::groucho::groucho: you go get the rest of them :weee:

[consider yourselves warned – i will bomb your inboxes if you do not post to this thread saying you have updated by thursday 9pm raaaraaaraaa]

well done on finding new server

nice one SdZ 😉

i’ll get on the wire to SWU broadcasters

Nice one!! have updated mine 🙂

I updated mine too. thanks level-1

Done :weee: :weee: :weee:

N1 SdZ… Having it in Europe should deal with the bandwidth throttling they seem to be getting into over the pond, along with that transatlantic lag… Was getting some seriously slow ping times some sundays, no matter what I did…:bounce_fl:bounce_g::bounce_fl:bounce_g::bounce_fl:bounce_g:

So – next question… Now you have a spangly new server, any chance of being able to stream in ogg any time soon? 96Kbps ogg sounds so much better than MP3 :weee::weee::weee:

OK..np (I’d figured the first bit was probably one of the reasons – although a bit surprised winamp still needs a codec. Windows Media player never will support ogg as a default I suspect – doesn’t fit into the borg collective very well…:lol_crash )

As a point of interest, the LAME MP3 encoder oddsock uses is now a bona fide Open source project (the ISO’s have changed completely since the original library was hacked). It’s being developed under the GPL, and has a project page at http://lame.sourceforge.net/ :weee::weee::weee:

Still beating people over the head with VLC though… Everybody we get to try it mostly keep using it too ‘cos it’s easy to use and plays most every media type…:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl

You’d probably start getting mixes in ogg if it was used – We only send mp3’s because that’s what oddcast is coding it in, and saving to raw wav gets a bit out of hand if we stream for 2 days… (had a very silly size wav file that I had to convert to wav64 before I could use it the first time we did this – wav files only encode properly up to about 1.5gig… 4gig wavs behave funny:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:)

Confused at the last bit though?…

I was under the impression that you already did icecast>shoutcast in the server relay (I use icecast2 in the streaming software). The only difference would be in setting the mountpoint for the shoutcast to ‘/’ and telling it to put the metadata in the stream… This is already done for the relay to work to shoutcast at all… (I may be very confused however – the docs I’ve read for icecast made me go cross eyed and gave me a headache last time…:weee::weee::weee:)

So the question is – Can I give ogg streaming a try? I’ll do it sometime quiet to try and get it working…:wink:…And it would be well worth it if it was possible. I don’t mind having to tell people how to get VLC working when I’m playing – the quality audio will be worth it.

i use VLC for file types that i can’t play in winamp, but apart from it’s ability to play so many files types, i find it quite a limited bit of software… the interface is dull.. visualizations are rubbish.. it’s plain frustrating re: playlists etc… pity reallyas it is so flexible and not thirsty

Thing I like most about VLC is that it’s stripped down… You can add all sorts of bits and bobs to it if you really want to, but I just want a small footprint simple media player, that plays anything I care to chuck at it…:wink:

I stopped using winamp when it went to the first re-design after getting bought by AOL (version 4 as I remember). It went from being a good app to trying to take over my PC… Totally screwed my windows installation (even more crashes from windows). Uninstalling it ended with me having to reformat. Did it to me twice too (I installed v5 when it came out)…Never again… If I want a bloated and badly coded media player, WMP comes pre installed, and is at least as bad….:crazy_diz:crazy_diz:crazy_diz

>..SdZ – np… like I said, I’m just a bit confused (all my life:wink:). I’d like to try using ogg – I will persevere in getting people to the stream if necessary:weee::weee::weee: Got to get people using it somehow though – the mp3’s irritate me – only so much tuning can be done to make them sound halfway listenable. Ogg’s stream more efficiently too, so getting more people using them = more spare bandwidth…raaaraaaraaa

Hope you get better soon:flowers::flowers:

try the hippo videos and the badgers for mini glo?
:groucho::groucho::groucho::groucho:

my signature is updated – thanks for the heads up

[if anyone wants to copy it on you go :weee:]