Last week Gabriel and Lydia expressed an interest in listening to some old 45s on my portable turntable so I thought it would be fun for them to play around with the idea of a radio show.  They loved the idea so I hooked up the turntable to the laptop and rigged it to NiceCast.  They both took to it quickly: Lydia adopted the persona of “The Interrupting Chicken” throughout the show and after 10 minutes they were on their own with no help from me with NiceCast operations – lots of laughs and fun.

[audio: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2251996/Kids%20With%2045s.mp3]

Kids With 45s [MP3]

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/