[Rfu-barnraising] Re: {leti} Re: the automation question

[Andy Gunn]

i _highly_ recommend that you stream your signal over the internet.  if you don't, you are cutting out a potentially huge audience.  your signal is only 100 watts, so people in even the next town over may not be able to hear you.  with a stream - they will have the option of tuning in at least when they are by a computer with an ethernet connection.

i really think the fees are minimal - a few hundred dollars a year.  i know many stations that stream without any legal troubles whatsoever, and some of them don't pay the fees at all.

it will be a relatively simple task to set up a streaming encoder during the barnraising - we will have techs running all over the place who will want things to do.  i would ask that at bare minimum, we set up a computer to stream the launch of the station - we can publicize it on our sites and tell people to tune in via email.  if you want to turn it off after the barnraising, that is up to you.

-a


On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, andrew baoill wrote:

> We've left streaming to one side for the moment, for both practical  
> reasons, and because some of us have broader philosophical concerns  
> about the issue.
> 
> While the donation is welcome, can we wait until after the  
> barnraising to engage with this issue? I would like to give the topic  
> the attention it deserves, but there are so many other things at the  
> moment I don't think we have time to take on additional issues.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On 26 DFómh 2005, at 14:32, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >The Acorn Active Media Foundation is planning to donate use of one  
> >of our servers for streaming (and integrating this into the CUWiN  
> >wireless network). We have some parameters we're operating under  
> >but would also love help setting this up to your specs.  We've just  
> >finished building the system and making sure it takes the server  
> >software we're loading onto it.  We'll probably follow something  
> >along the lines of:
> >
> >http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialAudioStreaming.html
> >
> >But if there are techies on the list who would like to be involved  
> >with this effort (especially during the craziness of the  
> >barnraising), drop me a line.
> >
> >In solidarity,
> >
> >--Sascha
> >
> >Andrew Ó Baoill wrote:
> >
> >>You would take an output from the console and feed it to an input  
> >>on  the soundcard if you wanted to record the station (or other  
> >>console  output) onto the computer, or to create a webstream, etc.
> >>Andrew

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