SoulStrutRadio?
stilldiggin
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After reading this thread http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=812963&an=0&page=0#Post812963I thought about this idea: A radio station on Sirius/XM shared by strutter. Everyone could have an hour or two a week to play/talk about whatever they want. There are 168 hours in a week so this would be enough time for alot of people. What do people think? Maybe this could really happen? Probably not for a long time but it does seem possible. Lets try to figure out what the cost would be and how one could go about finding info about somthing like this. Drop your Knowledge!
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But only if I can play Todd Terry's Back to the Beat over and over again on every show.
I would hope that everyone would be open to anything.
Even letting people have their 1 hour of silly BS if thats what they want to do.
I want to know how much this would cost. I cant find info anywhere.
I'm not sure that satellite radio is the same as leased access cable tv in that anyone can have a station/show as long as they pay for it. My friend used to work for Sirius and I think all the stations are produced by Sirius, in their offices.
Seriously.. it's very easy to setup.
- spidey
Also, each mix or show should be parsed out into a podcast. I am down.
I think that would be a great idea. I would still like to see the the two compared.
The main thing is that sirius is about to have millions of listeners and growing.
I guess shoutcasts are huge now and growing also.
one thing about shoutcasts is they dont advertise therselves.
got to go to work be back later tonight. Can organized things like this really happen? Or is a pipe dream?
Shoutcast is a lot easier available, the only downside is somebody has to take the time to dedicate a computer as a server to host the stream, or we'd have to pay a hosting service to host for us. Considering we have about 80 lurkers at any given point we're going to need a server that can handle alot of users.
I have a spare computer I can donate to the project. I just can't spare the loss of internet speed.
- spidey
Fucking great idea!
- spidey
and, i think silly bs hour is a must.
http://www.wefunkradio.com/
No, shoutcast is Winamps way to do internet broadcasting.
Not sure how intricate you could be with live shows through shoutcast.
I agree, now let's see what captain raj has to say about all this.
- spidey
peace, stein. . .
um, they are cool but soulstrut starting a college radio station would be
I typed up everything you would need to do to set up a streaming shoutcast server and the problems that you would face in doing so. Unfortunately after doing so I got
The form you have submitted is no longer valid.
So maybe tomorrow I'll feel like typing all that again - or ask specific questions.
You need to start by figuring out what sound quality you want and how many listeners you would expect to have and then find someone to supply the bandwidth. Cable/DSL won't cut it for something like this..
p.s. can i get that copyright?
- Spidey
http://somafm.com/support/
I'm not really about a PAY station, however I think SOMA is on the right track. Donations and voluntary subscription.
- Diego
big thing gon happen soon.
Sirius is all produced in-house but they do look at other radio 'brands' and if they're getting an audience they either replicate them or just pull them into the family.
I am begining to think there are 80 people willing to fork over 5-20$$ a month, no problem. That would be 400-1600 $$ a month. is that the right ball park on the funds?
I'd be on for contributing.
Make it happen.