Testing a New Party Vibe Radio

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April 17, 2005 at 9:19 pm #1036385
Techno Viking
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I’m testing an internet radio stream this week, if all goes well we’ll go live next week.

You can tune here: http://www.level-1.org.uk:8000/partyvibe.m3u

Feel free to link directly to it from your sites and let me know what you think…

Great thanks to http://www.level-1.org.uk for hosting our stream!
April 18, 2005 at 4:04 pm #1065384
SdZ
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Sounding great, some nice MP3 mixes you have included. Im also interested on how my new server will handle the load. Keen to hear the live sets also.
April 18, 2005 at 8:00 pm #1065379
globalloon
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are you working on it at the mo?

i can’t seem to connect 😐
April 18, 2005 at 8:25 pm #1065374
Techno Viking
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Try it now, we restarted it just now after making some changes…
April 19, 2005 at 12:14 pm #1065380
globalloon
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for some reasojn I still can’tconnect… a media player opens, but then nothing 😐
April 19, 2005 at 12:47 pm #1065375
Techno Viking
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Are you trying from work or at home? Also are you able to play other streams from where you are?
April 19, 2005 at 12:48 pm #1065385
SdZ
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globalloon wrote:

for some reasojn I still can’tconnect… a media player opens, but then nothing 😐

Thats odd. Ive just connected OK although i noticed some bizarre routing issues this morning after a few traceroutes. What media player are u using ?
April 19, 2005 at 12:55 pm #1065376
Techno Viking
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It’s definately a lot better now that it’s been all morning…
April 19, 2005 at 12:59 pm #1065386
SdZ
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Site wrote:

It’s definately a lot better now that it’s been all morning…

We will have to keep an eye. Im still very much testing this server,

Heres a link to the status page for current listeners and whats currently playing etc…

http://www.level-1.org.uk:8000/
April 19, 2005 at 1:02 pm #1065377
Techno Viking
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I tried to get to your provider’s network status page but it seemed to be down (ironically) unless I had the wrong URL.

Could you pm me the proper link?
April 19, 2005 at 2:58 pm #1065381
globalloon
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SdZ wrote:

What media player are u using ?

I have a few installed for different purposes, but when i click the link, it automatically selects VLC media player (which i usually use when I have a sketchy format that I can’t open without a lot of converting etc). VLC can usually handle any formats I’ve come across in the past

it’s showing a URL: http://72.22.64.118:8002/partyvibe at the bottom of th player
April 19, 2005 at 3:21 pm #1065387
SdZ
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globalloon wrote:

I have a few installed for different purposes, but when i click the link, it automatically selects VLC media player (which i usually use when I have a sketchy format that I can’t open without a lot of converting etc). VLC can usually handle any formats I’ve come across in the past

it’s showing a URL: http://72.22.64.118:8002/partyvibe at the bottom of th player

Right, im trying my VLC and its playing up aswell, stutters occasionally. Interesting that the port is 8002. Although this should work aswell its usually 8000. Im gonna have a play with some different players when i get home from work.

Ill let you know my findings in this thread.
April 19, 2005 at 8:47 pm #1065382
globalloon
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another odd thing is that I’ve just clicked on the link I put in my last post…

and it opens new ‘file download’ window (open / save / cancel)…

clicking open starts me downloading something… but I’m sure that isn’t the idea of streaming radio :you_crazy

the plot thickens!
April 20, 2005 at 12:18 pm #1065388
SdZ
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Firstly i think the recent odd behavior of the server is possibly down to a routing issue. After talking to my ISP they claimed that there is a new vunerability for cisco routers and when you patch to update it you loose your routing table. If this is true the problems with buffering will only be intermittent.

The server seems much more responsive today. Whats everyone elses findings ?

globalloon: Your problem with VLC does seem odd. You certainly shouldnt be downloading. I have noticed that i can make my browser download instead of stream. I recommend resetting your file-types to handle M3U files with winamp. It seems to give the best performance compared to vlc on our server.
April 20, 2005 at 12:21 pm #1065389
SdZ
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globalloon wrote:

another odd thing is that I’ve just clicked on the link I put in my last post…

and it opens new ‘file download’ window (open / save / cancel)…

clicking open starts me downloading something… but I’m sure that isn’t the idea of streaming radio :you_crazy

the plot thickens!

The actual stream itself is http://72.22.64.118:8002/partyvibe

Dont use that link directly it wont work.

You should click on http://www.level-1.org.uk:8000/partyvibe.m3u to get your player to load the playlist of the stream.
April 20, 2005 at 12:38 pm #1065378
Techno Viking
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SdZ wrote:

The actual stream itself is http://72.22.64.118:8002/partyvibe

Dont use that link directly it wont work.

You should click on http://72.22.64.118:8002/partyvibe.m3u
to get your player to load the playlist of the stream.

Don’t you mean 8000? Anyway looking forward getting home to find out how we’re doing today, our work firewall won’t let me connect at all from here ;(
April 20, 2005 at 12:47 pm #1065390
SdZ
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@Site]Don’t you mean 8000? Anyway looking forward getting home to find out how we’re doing today, our work firewall won’t let me connect at all from here ([/QUOTE wrote:

Yes although it appears to work regardless of port.

http://www.level-1.org.uk:8000/partyvibe.m3u

Incidently there has been 3 listeners on PV radio most most of the morning including me and the streams been performing fine as before. I hope yesterday was a temporary glitch. We had cheekyhalf.net streaming and they had to drop to 64kbps cause their upload to the server kept disconnecting, im hoping it was those bizaare routing issues that cause it. We should be able to stream 96kbps and upwards.
April 20, 2005 at 2:30 pm #1065391
SdZ
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Up to 6 listeners and still connected with no issues. We have a live stream of http://www.bluntbeats.com on level-1 later will be keeping a close eye on that one also.
April 20, 2005 at 2:37 pm #1065383
globalloon
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SdZ wrote:

globalloon: Your problem with VLC does seem odd. You certainly shouldnt be downloading. I have noticed that i can make my browser download instead of stream. I recommend resetting your file-types to handle M3U files with winamp. It seems to give the best performance compared to vlc on our server.

:lol_dork:

it’s working… I copied the link directly into winamp (didn’t know how to do that until just now!)

don’t understand why clicking the link was opening VLC, but it doesn’t matter now

chOOns

excellent work

PartyVibe goes from strength to strength
April 20, 2005 at 3:37 pm #1065392
SdZ
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Great 🙂 Glad you got it working.

Anyone with else with issues please let me know.
April 28, 2005 at 10:21 pm #1065373
Anonymous
cranking the show up now in my shop in colorado, sounds great 🙂

stevyn
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