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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 22:45:37 GMT
KHZ Worldround Radio Is On the AirWorldround Radio is the owner of well known KDX for the past 10 years, and today launched a second radio station known as KHZ 1640 AM "The Free Speech Zone". From an AMT3000 Transmitter located indoors as part of the "Indoor Antenna Experimental Project" KHZ began programming at 9 this morning, EST, with a continuous repeat of "Free Thought Live" from the Freedom From Religion Foundation (ffrf.org), leading the fight to keep church and state separate. KHZ streams by Icecast. Visit the KHZ Server
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Post by Admin on Feb 21, 2018 23:55:39 GMT
I could access the stream via the m3u link, but Firefox rejected the direct, ogg link. Don't you need http:// in front of it?
Edit: I tried the direct link with the 'http://' in front of it and it worked. So that link on the site won't work, at least in all browsers.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 1:32:11 GMT
Thanks Admin for the Stream Check
The next time I'm able to stop the server I'll add the http://
I'm within three things of knowing everything! If this fix works it will be down to two things!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 22:08:08 GMT
KHZ Jettisons into the Air
On its second day of streaming KHZ Worldround Radio has added a long string of very good talk programs running in a constant loop and will add a few audio books.
Meanwhile, legendary KDX Worldround Radio is transforming into a (mostly) news station with a traditional daily schedule.
As soon as the ladies hear about this we may need to add a second phone line.
The next step will be hooking up the AM 1640 transmitter and assign KHZ-FM to one of our other frequencies.
We can decide right now!
Let's see, KDX-FM is sitting on 89.5 MHz, we should probably move our internal audition channel from 89.9 to 90.3 MHz... Ya! O.k. then.
Therefore KHZ-FM will fit at 89.9 and we'll put Audacity editing and TeamSpeak Meeting feedback at 90.3 MHz.
If I don't hear any objections that's how we'll do it.
Oh, right, 90.3 MHz is KEGO-FM.
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Post by Boomer on Feb 23, 2018 0:52:23 GMT
I listened to KHZ yesterday, no problem playing it right on your Icecast page player, and the Ogg audio had really good sound, considering that it was a podcast being re-streamed. Whether we're religious or not, in a country that's plastered with religion, it's good to have the opportunity to see other sides too. I've liked Ogg for a long time, and found out about it in the early 2000s, when they made a breakthrough on the sound, better than mp3 in a smaller space was the claim. I updated my player codecs and encoded some CDs into Ogg files, and it did sound nicer. Back then there was a guy in the Oggosphere who tried to fit a whole album on a floppy disk using Ogg and a very low bit rate, and he did it I believe. I didn't like formats like wma, m4a or .ra, since they could have digital rights management put on them, and that was bad. Oh oh, politics.. So I was using Ogg regularly, but times changed and I moved on to Flac for CD and vinyl rips. Flac is a lossless format from the same foundation that produces Ogg. For streaming I've stuck with plain old Shoutcast mp3 with 128k, because nearly everyone could access it, and it can also be sent to a page player like Ogg, and also Opus, which is yet another format from the foundation that makes Ogg and Flac, Opus being well thought out for streaming purposes, voice and music. opus-codec.org/More for Carl to play with..  No seriously, I should get Icecast going again and add an Ogg and Opus stream, I just hope my computer can handle the extra, it's a Duo chip. Boomer |
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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2018 2:47:42 GMT
It looks like Carl made the change to explicitly specify http for the stream, and it now works like a charm for me as well.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 2:59:19 GMT
The Railroad of Formats and Bitrates
Thanks for the feedback! I wasn't recognizing that the Icecast Server Page has a direct link composed simply of words describing the path. I thought that line was just "informational".
Almost all of my programs arrive as mp3 and that's what Zara plays, so I use whatever comes in and they are all at different bit-rates, some stereo and some mono.
The B.U.T.T. and Altacast Encoders convert it to whatever kind of Ogg the codecs happen to be, and I've noticed other Icecasters have weird combinations like AAC-Ogg.
KDX has a "good sound" because of Stereo Tool, and KHZ is whatever the podcasts sound like since there's no processing on that stream.
Stereo Tool can only run one instance per computer, so I'll eventually look for another processor to use on KHZ.
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Post by jimhenry2000 on Feb 24, 2018 6:16:07 GMT
It looks like Carl made the change to explicitly specify http for the stream, and it now works like a charm for me as well. Works fine for me too now |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 6:17:24 GMT
Many Thanks for the Airchecks
The servers are humming nicely thanks to so much welcome help!
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