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 […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by peasap This weekend marks the one year anniversary of the launch of what has been to me, one of the best shared online experiences in my 20+ years here– ds106 radio. This web radio station was started with a tweet by Jim Groom, that has gone […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog It was a grey, rainy, snowy, wintery day up here in the Arizona mountains. In the afternoon I decided to pull out the little mini turntable and listen to for the first time, some of the old 78s I brought home from my Mom’s house. […]
cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by Matt Biddulph I missed this live act, but apparently Jim Groom has been jetting across the US and broadcasting to ds106 radio. The FAA has no clue. Nigel (@easgill) posted a clip of this to SoundCloud and it was whispering to me– “REMIX REMIX REMIX”. […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by rakkadeer I was locked into my spy mode, but had responded to DrGarcia’s call for audio clips to support the recent Schwartz Institute Seminar on DIY Radio : I was already on the run from the city and could not attend the session; sadly […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Do not take this boyish innocent smile lightly- Tom Woodward is a force of creative and sarcastic genius. It was yet another highlight to have spent tim with Tom in person a few clicks back, and to get to visit with him and his family […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog You had to be there. Well, I am glad I was there. GNA Garcia and Jim Groom here are having too much fun doing a improv version of Mikhail Gershovich’s radio conversations with his mom. Or maybe we had too much fun watching. As part […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe If you dig ds106 radio, then join us tomorrow, October 2, a group of us are running a telethon to support the effort. While it is free form radio, truth be known that Grant Potter has been paying for the technical infrastructure since […]
UPDATE July 6, 2012: Now there is a grandson, I now run my setup through Ladiocast, which offers much more mixing capability and manages the use of Skype as a source- see http://cogdogblog.com/2012/07/06/rube-goldberg-broadcast-machine/
Lots of people seem to have gotten a start on ds106 radio broadcasting using Nicecast on Mac OSX and my first guide to niceasting. Since then, I’ve been modifying my method a bit, so it seemed time to update.
As always, your first point of entry into anything related to ds106 radio is the shared doc at http://bit.ly/radio4life which covers info about the radio, how to listen, and how to broadcast.
The setup I described the first tome around works well for the scenario of wanting to slide between your voice and audio from an application, e.g. DJing music from iTunes. This would not work, however, if you wanted to use say 2 audio apps, or if you wanted to do, say a Skype call-in show (which has been tutorialized elsewhere using SoundFlower, and/or audio mixing apps. There always seems to be a lot of audi source switching to do this, but of course its possible.
This all started with a little fun last week, when jim Groom was clamoring for the stream from his visit to Cole Camplese Penn State, but never seemed to pick it up. I thought it would be fun to tease him, and grabbed the stream, with a set up of using QuickTime Player as my source. I found that by opening several clips in the player, setting them to Loop, I could get some interesting skips just by activating the player- each time I made another window active, it became the audio source. Most fun was playing the “Rowan Peter / Peter Rowan” clip again and again.
If you really want to hear this deviance, I got it:
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I landed today in Falls Church, VA, at the invite of George Brett, a long time internet colleague who I finally met for the first time in February at the EDUCAUSE ELI conference. He urged me to visit him, so I did– I am. He […]
