Have an Android powered phone?  Been looking for a way to broadcast live audio to #ds106radio?

Pocket Transmitter allows you broadcast to #ds106radio in same manner as things are done with Papaya Broadcaster.

There is one small snag … this application requires users to connect to IceCast using Shoutcast-compatibility mode.  Once of the key elements of #ds106radio is the ability to ‘kick’ the /AutoDJ rotations out when someone connects /LIVE.  Shoutcast-compatibility mode users connect via listener sockets – which works fine, but listener socket connections do not support fallback points.  The fallback points are the little magic IceCast2 functionality that allows /LIVE cut-ins to scheduled playlists.

But … by setting up a second server for Android connections using listener sockets, #ds106radio can be configured to effectively listen for any/all activity on any mountpoint and relay broadcasts to /LIVE #ds106radio.  At this point there is about a 40second delay between the relay IceCast server and the main #ds106radio server when someone connects – I’m working on reducing this delay.  Happy to report the sound quality is excellent.  May a thousand Androids bloom.

@draggin has been in the contact with the developer of this application who has indicated that he is considering direct support for IceCast2 – this would eliminate the need for a relay – allowing users to connect directly to #ds106radio from their Android devices … stay tuned … looks like a promising $4.99 option.

Here are your settings for Pocket Transmitter:

Server:  69.90.148.151
Port: 8000
Password: ds106

You can watch for your connection at: http://69.90.148.151:8000/

30-40 seconds from connection you will see your /LIVE Android broadcast at #ds106radio at: http://208.82.115.69:8010/

“I’m not dead.” I’M NOT DEAD. “It’s just a rumor, spread by my enemies,” he says. IT’S JUST A RUMOR. SPREAD BY MY ENEMIES. SO THEY CAN TAKE THE RADIO STATION AWAY FROM ME.

excerpt from Sex and Broadcasting

Lorenzo Milam’s Sex and Broadcasting (PDF) was an early 60’s manifesto and how-to guide to radical, community based non-commercial broadcasting.

Milam offers humor and practical advice for gaming the early FCC 1960’s legislation for micro and community broadcast licensing as well as organizational advice for running a volunteer run radio station but also some far out themes such as pirate radio from hot air balloons and broadcasting for extraterrestrials among the wonderful wackiness.

Lorenzo’s passion for public access to the spectrum resonated with me and is timely in light of SOPA and other similar legislative moves to enclose the commons in favor of corporate interests.

The PDF I have linked above is a copy made from microfilm. If you are interested in getting a hard-copy, you can help out the Prometheus Radio Project by buying a copy here.

“A radio station should not just be a hole in the universe for making money, or feeding an ego, or running the worldhellip; A radio station should be a live place for live people to sing and dance and talk: talk their talk and walk their walk and know that they (and the rest of us) are not finally and irrevocably dead.”

—Lorenzo Milam