We are at beta testing stage. A long time coming, too. It's here for hi fi ,
and here for lo-fi

Check it out.

Works with musicmatch jukebox

R

works with winamp nice

Sounds cool!

Very nice. I'll have to keep this in mind.

Great sound, will listen frequently, now if you could just post which song we are listening to. I heard a couple I wouldn't mind getting.

R

if you listen with winamp (which it was actually designed for), all the titles are listed as the song is playing.. I'm not sure of the result if your listening via musicmatch..

I neglected to mention that the shoutcast also has a website http://www.fesn.net ...

been listening to this most of the night, some good stuff on here. I'm using winamp no problems yet but all I get is the artist I'm not getting song titles. I have musicmatch at home I'll try it there when I get away from this desolate corner of the world where there are no people and nothing but cold humorless machines which suck the life out of me.

ok having said that, I'm getting song titles about half of the time. I must quit sleeping on the job....

I'm on a mac and my real player is actually working! Sounds great! ~~pepe~~

Oh this is Uber Cool.

I think we all agree that we desire webcast promotion for our songs. I, for one, grant Leflaw a blanket waiver to include my songs for webcast and inclusion on CD's. To get around the various "bundle of rights" Leflaw needs to know that you are the songwriter and freely grant your "fused right," that is, the mechanical performance, the vocalist, the publishing.

This is to avoid some so-called publisher or record label from coming out of the woodwork and claiming that some separate performance right or mechanical must be negotiated.

If you have some complication in your past, such as signing a song to a publisher, please keep it out of our system. To those of you thinking of signing publishing contracts---DON'T!!!! Do not sign up with ASCAP or BMI. You get nothing out of it, except a sticker to put on your car window. Get this straight, you don't need a PRO until your song is a hit which necessitates collection from broadcast radio and clubs. And you haven't accomplished that yet, have you?

This is the basis of Royalty Logic, which is battling for its life against RIAA/Sound Exchange to represent songwiters in a transparent royalty collection process. We are facing repeated legislative attempts by Harry Fox and the RIAA to be granted even further monopoly exemptions to gather up all rights in one.

Since WE SONGWRITERS have opted out of the circus of the CARP system, we do not agree with the arcane list of rules that proclaim a webcaster cannot pre-publish a list of titles, more than one song an hour from the same artist, etc etc. It's horsehit from another era of gaslight lamps and buggywhips.

These corporate monsters CREATED the barbed-wire rats' nest of splinter rights, and the internet is truly a threat of disruptive technology. It is not possible to find the owner of publishing or master recordings. Someone coming out of the woodwork and suing the wbecatsre partner's ass for the estate of his grand-uncle's second cousin for a work created in 1922. Having created an economic model that will not translate to frictionless distribution, now the corporations have a slight clarification they need: complete and total monopoly. Needless to say, the corrupt accounting process would be grafted onto the New Media Economy, and artists will never be paid. (as usual)

I heareby liberate the phrase "Clean Slate" from the ugly mouth of the RIAA. Clean Slate--yes, we want it. It's called Artist Rights Movement. Done in a new way. Direct Pay!!!

Dmusic Radio=good.

This rocks! Just listened to "Live in Yesterday". For some reason, though I have WinAmp and Rea;Player installed...it chose to be opened with RealPlayer...I actually(shudder) like RealPlayer better than WA, so it's cool.

Sound quality is great.

I think Tom brought up a great point on the fused rights issue.
ARM=Artist Rights Movement ...ALL THE WAY

And it works in iTunes, too. That's a freakin' miracle all by itself.

Heard a song by Ouch, and now there's one by "Untitled Artist", so the encoding works, too, provided it's in the file.

Good quality.

Awesome!

I'm freakin!!!!

Leflaw...since this is a tremendous boon to Indie artists...are there any promotions planned or press releases or anything when it goes beyond beta to the Gold Master?

We are working it now. I was up till 3:45 with Compmore coding

FESN.net, our temporary portal.

last night in winamp i got great sound with the titles. today i just get http://207 etc. no titles to the streams. still great sound.

Compmore.. the poor boy is sleeping on his feet today methinks.. I think he means me.. we spent 4 hours last night beating the website into submission..

some artists in the current FESN playlist are from my old efforts of trying to do what DMusic has done so far.. and do not have atists in them, anything from Dmusic apprears to have a complete artist and title listing..

I'm going to be getting a hold of these other artists/bands and asking them to sign up with dmusic and help them as much as I can.. but some of them, I can't even find..

sorry for the technical difficulties today.. I thought I'd get ambitious and get DJing capability set up... .. it went kaboom.. I thank you for your patience..

Many thanks to both Lef and my pal Compmore...great work guys!

you guys are doing great work. *pat on the back* we all appreciate it

wooo whooo

Great! Now we need a lo-fi solution. Streaming 128K on dialup isn't the best

But in a sidenote, I _WILL_ have cable internet within 2 weeks

we will set up 64K VERSION

Condore...sorry for misapplied thanks ...great going man!

whoa.. cool..thanks.. I was starting to get worried that I might have to change my nick to "CompMore" .. I'm having fun with the station at the moment playing with it.. and ask that if your listening and something goofy happens.. try again ..

This is a work in progress, and will only improve as time goes on.. I appreciate all comments, & questions..

The only reason you won't see an artist name with a song is simply because the artist has not filled out the ID3 tag fully .. not much we can do about that.. except nag the arists to fill 'em out.. or they won't be getting enough exposure..

sweet now we have real dmusic radio now i wish I had cable modem

I have set up an experimental 4 connection lowfi server!

If it's not up.. please don't complain.. it's merely an experimental server kind fo a "See, this is what your going to get" .. if it causes the main stream to cut out or overbuffer, I'll be cutting it..

err something liek that.. anyways.. IP: http://66.188.118.126:8000

lemme know how it's running..

correction: http://66.188.118.126:8000/listen.pls

lo-fi works like a charm!!!

sounds fantastic

wow know we have some great music to listen to while we read all the articles and posts at Boycott RIAA !!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOD JOB GUYS!!!!!!!!

Very nice, great job leflaw and condore!

Sorry!! .. Lowfi was choking my upstream.. so I had to cut it.. Leflaw and I are working on a solution... sorry.. as soon as it hit 3 people I noticed overbuffering.. many apologies to everyone..

ok.. lowfi is back up.. with 2 listener slots available..
hifi has 64 available slots..

It chose Music Match for me witch I'm having trouble with (everytime I update to the new ver.!) so I'll try it thrugh real one and see how it works very cool
By the way leflaw I grant a blanket waiver to include my songs for webcast and inclusion on CD's. although registering did that did it not?
And if you need I will send a paper doc. (George actully has one for Empire Day from AZOZ and if I remember right it includes all webcast etc.
note me if i'm wrong..

well.. I've discovered the bandwidth limitation of the shoutcast server... I would like to apologise.. but, that's what beta testing is for.. as soon as 8 listeners got on the HiFi connect.. it choked... thank you very much for helping us beta test.. we'll keep casting, but we may have to cut the limit to 6 listeners until we can get a more bulky connect.. >

yes it is very choppy

well, to fix the problem.. and also make a ton of people happy.. we've done the following.. we've gone to a 48kpbs connection @ 44khz MONO .. it's the one that sounded the best with very little bandwidth usage ..it's even listenable with DIALUP... and upto 20 people should be able to connect before it chokes.. we're casting from a T1 server.. it is on a 13GB backbone, so it's very quick, just not completely ideal for shoutcasting.. especially with all the websites being hosted from it... I started FESN to help independent artists like myself.. and I will continue.. with the help of leflaw and the rest of the great community here.. I aim to continue my efforts..

we are looking into other server options.. to host multiple genres.. have dj's.. the response has been great.. I am taking applications for dj's.. and already have a schedule set up.. all I need are people to fill it..

Thanx again..

It's great and works super with ultraplayer as well. glad I know now it wasn't me. thought I was sleep walking again. super job Leflaw and CONDORE

Condore...you really deserve kudos for this my friend...it shows what one or two guys working hard can do...this is just the beginning...
I think Lef and you..and all the musicians whose music is being broadcast, are really pioneers in a way.....

KEEP A ROCKIN'

~Code

Condore, I may be interested in possibly helping to DJ

Gonna check it out!

(Are Electric Gypsy Tunes welcome? We don't have a D-music page yet.)

Shmoo

using mmjb (an older vers) but the songs stream just fine... dont see any track titles or artist names...

thats ok tho,

just wish someone would pop up and say "that song was by so and so and now this track is by such and such"

Good luck with it!

Shmoo

It's interesting.. come to find out that it wasn't the bandwidth that was the problem.. the place that hosts our stream was actully moving connections around.. and there was other stuff going on too within the internet itself.. they were moving fibre around.. we may go for another shot at 128 constant.. I looked at the b/w monitor and there was some MAJOR nwetworkign issues at the hosting service itself, about the time it 'choked' and I made some assumptions BASED on that..

DJ's could be coming soon.. but it seems that whenever someone hears a voice we lose listeners! .. winamp DOES list the titles.. although if the id3 tag isn't complete you don't know much more than that..

compmore! .. there is a person with that nick!! ROFL .. get in tough with me.. through FESN.. there's a DJ application..

Shoutcast DOWN:

until 1:00PM CST

I am doing work on the main casting server! hopefully going to eliminate any lag.. there will be 2 possible scenarios happening after my work is done..

1. We will be semi dj dependent,

2. we will be dj independent, but will be fully dj capable..


so DJ's SIGN UP!

VIC will be shoutcasting by tomorrow night.. will you?!

I will keep you posted in the forums!!!!

god would I love to play dj! unfortunately I don't have much of a voice left due to some bad respiratory problems but I'll volunteer to help out with any kind of bad humor I can add

Much appreciation for the community effort to program the shows. The real scalable model is to get in offices on users desktops. And colleges. We need y'all to create your own songlists and let's have 'em! You do that DJ part, we'll do the client development. Thanks.

Sweet station! Let's set up a chat room for it!


irc://irc.unitedchat.org/dmusic_radio

I can streem the high-fi on dial up and it sounds GREAT!

ok.. having a contest today to push the limits of the server.. > .. check the forums..

Congrats, wanted a good indie station. Any chance of a DJ? Code, Leflaw, and George Z get my vote.

Maybe you could put in "Codes Comments" between every few songs.

well.. after a little work.. crying.. and.. a few migrain pills.. Vic is up and running.. . .. w00t.. lemme tell ya.. if I can get him running.. all thje rest o' ya should be a piece o' cake.. j/k vic!

lol

Awesome!! Im now!! Thanks Vic ... it works just fine with winamp ...
This is so

WOK-n_WOLL~

Great work Condore...keep the tunes a streamin'
~Code

We're currently Re-structuring.. will update in forums from now on.. keep a lookout in there! .. thanks a bunch for your support!

Two servers doing dedicated full time broadcasting.. Welcome to DMusic Radio Final Beta!

http://hifi.fesn.net:8000/listen.pls

http://lofi.fesn.net:8000/listen.pls