Ok, help me out with this... I have been throwing around the idea of doing a weekly radio show, via shoutcast DSP/Winamp technology. My radio show, which would be Live hosted by me would contain music, talk, etc... But then I thought why not extend this and maybe do something thats DBP/TGC oriented for this programming community?
First idea was move the irc Question & Answer sessions that we have every so often, to a live audio format via shoutcast. We could use Skype to queue up the callers, as well as have the TGC members live on the air. So instead of reading the QA session it would be heard as a live radio broadcast. Sound interesting? (I have technical alternatives if that scenario is not feasible) I am still working on the technical aspects of this - and my show will begin airing at some point regardless since its just join-and-listen, but I wanted to see if any of you find this interesting. All you would need to hear the shows is Winamp (free), The shoutcast DSP plugin v 1.8.2b(free) and Skype (to call in - also free).
The main issue is that I am looking for a decent server to host the shoutcast portion (Shoutcast Server app - free) for one or both of the shows. Anyone have a server to do the job? I was thinking of doing my show once weekly (maybe saturdays) and the TGC thing could be less frequently like once every few weeks (as far as an organized QA thing) Although we could make the tgc show also once weekly, for just TGC news, updates, programmer interviews, adverting your apps etc. (possibilities are endless)
Well like I said a server is first and foremost or none of this will happen. Anyone interested and willing to provide the server please post here. We can try initial tests as soon as the shoutcast stuff is up and running
I am ready to stream to you (we can discuss further via email to exchange server info/credentials etc, don't post that stuff here
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I look forward to your ideas and comments.
Thanks - CR
PS - Those of you thinking "Isnt he working on DarkTOPIA, wont this cut into that time ?" The answer is no. I used to do a radio show a few years back and have all of the equiptment and media pretty much in place, would just need to set up a couple of things and do some tests. Once that was done the show (my show) would require little prep time. TGC based shows would be more community driven so again very little prep time content-wise. DT wont suffer for this project.
