Subj : FidoNews 32:37 [02/07]: General Articles
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Date : Mon Sep 14 2015 00:39:32

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                       Adding radio to your BBS
Kurt Weiske, 1:218/700

"Just because you could do something, what the hell -- do it."

My  BBS hosts  a radio stream  at http://radio.realitcheckbbs.org, and
runs a mixture of ambient, house, darm ambient and acoustic tracks.  I
started the stream  when I was  working for a  handful of clients  and
wanted to have  music to listen  to at work  without needing to  bring
music on a USB stick.

I used an old version of  Winamp and the older versions of  Nullsoft's
1.x Shoutcast Distributed Network Audio Server (DNAS)  and a shoutcast
plugin for Winamp. There are newer versions of the server and  plugin,
but they added another layer of security, and the older version mostly
works.

The  DNAS  server talks  to the  Shoutcast server  and serves  a music
stream. A Shoutcast plug-in for WinAMP served the stream to DNAS.

I use a plugin called AKAutoPlay that automatically plays a file,  and
have Winamp in my startup folder.

There's  a  ton of  music out  there released  under Creative  Commons
license; I've used the soundtracks from Jason Scott's BBS Documentary,
GETLAMP and DEFCON documentaries as a start.  Bandcamp is another good
starting point for a variety of music under CC and other licenses.


Links:

http://www.shoutcast.com/broadcastnow
http://www.bandcamp.com
http://uploadgeneration.info/Winamp/www.winamp.com/
plugin/akautoplay/114493.html
http://creativecommons.org/





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