CogBlogged Tagged ‘ds106radio’

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by volperic Late night fiddling, don’t ask why– I was doing my photo editing and saw nothing on #ds106 radio, so set out to play somethimg from iTunes. For some reason, Nicecast no longer allows me to select an application as a source (Maybe because I installed Audio Hijack), so I switched by rig to Ladiocast, especially since the ds106 radio status page was not updating at all. Previously, I found I could manually push updates to the metadata via Ladiocast, but this seems manual and tedious. I mused before searching Not quite sure anymore what generates metadata on #ds106radio, NIcecast fails — Alan Levine (@cogdog) March 31, 2013 Searching on “itunes metadata script ladiocast” I then easily found a nifty Applescript for Ladiocast Automation. It’s pretty easy to see what it does; polls itunes for a new song, and [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Lee Jordan In about 24 hours I will be running a live show on ds106 radio featuring the radio shows my UMW students have been [joyfully] working on the last 3 weeks for their mid-term audio assignment. This will take place Monday night from 8-11:30pm EST. Please tune in and give them an audience, tweet back comments and questions with a #ds106 hash tag. To tune in use the web player at http://ds106rad.io/listen or dip directly into the stream. The shows have been recorded ahead of time, but this is the premiere we will play live, and members of the teams will be available to talk about their show and answer questions. You can catch the lineup at http://ds106.us/2013/03/17/spring-is-for-radio-shows/… if all the knobs and buttons work for me (doing this from 12 hours in the future from Hong Kong). [...]

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by The Daring Librarian One of the things the veterans of ds106 radio miss with the new station software is the ability for the @ds106radio twitterbot to recognize when a live braodcast has been started. I have full confidence Grant Potter will sort it out. Tonight, I was fiddling with a live broadcast from my hotel room in Japan, just playing some iTunes music via Nicecast. Rowan Peter called out for a voice over, so I switched over to my preferred Ladiocast mixer sert up. I was curious though, there is a setting in Ladiocast I do not see in Nicecast, to edit the metadata being sent out with the stream. Usually it’s the song info from iTunes, but there is a setting under Ladiocast (Streamer 1 -> Metadata) where you can update/override what is being sent out. So I tried [...]

cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I rather enjoy spotting juxtapositions, as when I opened a cabinet in Giulia’s kitchen, and noticed a tupperware containeer with a #ds106radio sticker sitting atop a copy of The Joy of Cooking. That’s whats happening in a few hours, when I try out the new radio station platform that Grant Potter put into place recently for the radio station. For those who broadcast, its really just a few settings changed in their apps/software (the server url, and maybe the mountpoint needs to drop a “/”). For listeners, they will have to tune into new urls (see below). There is a stream status page at http://ds106rad.io:8000, but ti does not yet indicate the presence of a live stream nor does the @ds106radio twitter bot. Those recipes will happen in time. But for this week’s #ds106 show, since we are starting [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by YlvaS I thought I had come up with a compelling piece in writing Steve Jobs & Neil Young Jam Across Time on Internet as Radio, and i fell rather silently in the blog pile. There you go. But what makes a live radio station, like ds106 radio, different from podcasting? It’s just audio on the web right? This was somewhat of a conversation I had today with my every so gracious host here in Vermont, Barbara Ganley. Pen and paper in hand, she came walking into her library a place I was comfortably sitting in doing some work on the laptop, wanting to ask some questions about ds106 radio. She did not flinch (too much) when I asked if we could have the conversation on the radio. It’s just the way I have always thought– to explain a media [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This audio recording was created (by request) for Matt Henderson a Manitoba teacher a number of us met this summer at the UnPlug’d Conference. Matt, who has done his own projects with creating a school based FM radio station, asked us for some help with a presentation he did Friday where he wanted to include some perspective on ds106 radio. So with some gentle nudging from @drgarcia, a group of us celebrating the last night of the Open Education 2012 conference in Vancouver gathered in a key back room of The SoundLab to records this one take “rockumentary” for Matt. With gentle music provided by @noiseprofessor, speakers included @grantpotter @giuliaforsythe @cogdog (me) and @bryanjack ds106radio rockumentary Enjoy. And it is now on the radio station… More goodness for the radio station is at http://bit.ly/ds106radioinfo plus Giulia Forsythe made this nifty [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog My current book reading is The New Kings of Nonfiction, a collection edited by my This American Life hero, Ira Glass (who oddly has no self maintained online presence I can find). It’s a collection of stories that weave in the kind of storytelling and interest TAL conjures, from the published world of reporting where the story elements are often sifted out. .. for a surprising number of reporters, the stagecraft of telling a story– managing its fable-like qualities– is not of secondary concern, but a kind of mumbo jumbo that serious-minded people don’t get caught up in. Taking delight in this part of the job, from their perspective, has little place in our important work as journalists. Another public radio officemate at the time- a Columbia University School of Journalism grad–would come back from the field with funny, vivid [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by sebastien.barre For this week’s live broadcast of the ds106 group radio shows I came up with an entirely new contraption for managing different sources, in contrat to my previous methods of using Nicecast. I still prefer using Nicecast, and do so for voice broadcasts or voice mixed with music (DJing)- but in the past I have ran into problems doing it with something like Skype as one of the sources, though I have mixed it in with the application mixer, the missing piece is for someone on Skype to be able to hear back what is on the stream. The new thing in the mix is the free Icecast broadcastng software, Ladiocast. I cobbled together the approach below with a combination of Tim Owen’s Ladiocast tutorial (critical for setting up Ladiocast) and Scott Lockman’s setup for doing his Second [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by hdurnin Would it be cliché to say how cool it was yesterday to tune into another radio station besides ds106 radio? It has been more than a year since the web internet radio station was activated by Grant Potter. There’s been a ton of interest, but I’ve been anxious to see who would be the first to take on hosting their own station. It is a group of 7th and 8th grade students at Turnberry Central Public school in Ontario who came on the airwaves yesterday at 105TheHive. This came about after Heather’s own experiences in doing live music performances on ds106 radio, and with some pointers from Grant Potter and a lot of behind the scenes assistance from Andrew Forgrave, it came to be. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by hdurnin Heather Durnin’s [...]

This photo is somewhere near the Arizona / New Mexico border. It was fitting to see a sign for Grants Road, since I had been listening to @grantpotter playing a set of road tunes for me on ds106radio. It was epic, and carried me clear from east of Holbrook AZ into Albuquerque NM. It’s just a small example of how generous a spirit Grant is, he deserves more than a road, even more than a town, heck they name a new Canadian province for him. Thanks!