KVR Radio station.

[Techbot]

Now I know Markleford has one going but I'm interested in a station where kvrtists could take turns broadcasting. I think it noramlly works out at fifty euros a month to accomodate a max of fifty listeners at any one time. But maybe someone has a server. Either way it's not expensive.



p.s what's the general consensus on other people broasdcasting your tunes. Does anyone use any of the common licenses(ie display an image stating that the tunes can be downloaded and broadcast? or similar. Or is it all assumed?

I think I've added a poll
Please comment....

[pHz]

(moved from the cafe to everything else)

[Big Karma]

I voted yes but don't think the listeners would agree!



Seriously tho - this is Glassback's area of expertise - might be worth dropping him a PM to heads up this thread.

[studiosonic]

I've always thought this would be a great idea - I hope people get behind it.

[Spe3D]

If its a true radio station and the radio actually hosts the files it plays rather than lists direct links, credit and contact the artists too, give some way of announcing each artist before the track and at the end of the track plus where to find them - then it could be a good idea.

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

[M'Snah]

... and with some collaborative financing we could host it at kvr's friendly sister site Audioshot.com instead of a random other host...

[jmh]

Since I'm involved in something else web related now... I might have the possibility for running something like this.
We have servers with fat connections and at least one of them has already streaming thingamabobs installed (we were supposed to run our own net radio thing but the DJs scattered around the world for the winter, now that they're coming back to Finland we're starting the discussions about this again).

I played some sessions around christmas, it was loads of fun even though I didn't have the guts to speak between the tracks. Coincidentally about the most liked stuff I played was from our fellow KVR member Kingston - people on the radio station's irc channel kept asking about where to get those tracks for weeks afterwards

One great thing that particular radio had was automated spoken ads every 5 tracks or so. Those were done with that online AT&T speech synth and sounded great, especially because they were done in multiple languages - the spanish bits almost fooled me

Anyways... if people are interested, I can talk to our server people about this. An ftp account for uploading material you want others to play, possibility for people to run their own shows from the comfort of their homes, it's all possible. We (as in BombSquad) are into these sort of things and like to 'sponsor' all kinds of web things.

Regards,

JMH

[Kraku]

This sounds superb! Me sez yummy!

[Barf]

I've always thought this would be a great idea - I hope people get behind it.

Yes

[Hink]

I agree too, however what will the criteria be for music that is played? Or will there be a criteria? Though I see this as a great idea, if not handled properly (hell even if it is done right someone will cry foul) it could create anomosity as well..

[Spe3D]

Since I'm involved in something else web related now... I might have the possibility for running something like this.
We have servers with fat connections and at least one of them has already streaming thingamabobs installed (we were supposed to run our own net radio thing but the DJs scattered around the world for the winter, now that they're coming back to Finland we're starting the discussions about this again).

I played some sessions around christmas, it was loads of fun even though I didn't have the guts to speak between the tracks. Coincidentally about the most liked stuff I played was from our fellow KVR member Kingston - people on the radio station's irc channel kept asking about where to get those tracks for weeks afterwards

One great thing that particular radio had was automated spoken ads every 5 tracks or so. Those were done with that online AT&T speech synth and sounded great, especially because they were done in multiple languages - the spanish bits almost fooled me

Anyways... if people are interested, I can talk to our server people about this. An ftp account for uploading material you want others to play, possibility for people to run their own shows from the comfort of their homes, it's all possible. We (as in BombSquad) are into these sort of things and like to 'sponsor' all kinds of web things.

Regards,

JMH

You will need lots and lots of bandwidth - plus know your target audiance if you want to push ads. Very Very easy to fill your server up with tracks, but where and how are they to be presented on the net - who is going to listen?

And you will need to meet deadlines imo. plus your server is going to need to be meaty if you are going for a large audiance.

The only reason I have not been all over this sooner (radio I mean) (in the pipeline for later) is the cost of such an event (ie to do it right) is quite a bit dosh! not only in bandwith and disk space, but also in set-up time Its got to be an all or nothing thing, dedicated server just for doing the radio imo - or its just going to be another limp radio station attempt on the net with about five listners (they are the guys that tune in at the published time to here their own track) - in fact how would you reach the audiance? You cannot sell ads without a proven audiance. If you cannot sell ads - how will it be funded?

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

[jmh]

Hmm... to answer this shortly...

Bandwidth is there. I won't get into details because it would most likely make you feel uncomfortable, Spe3d, but I can assure you that this side of things is very well covered. The server that hosts kingstondrums.bombsquad.org is just one of several...

No ads - apart from possibly advertising the very artists themselves who are getting played. Avoiding commercial activities is a priority to us, as our hosting deals kind of depend on us doing non-commercial things.

Deadlines? After the system is launched, about the only deadlines there should exist would be for people who do the DJing. Automated play for other times of the day would be possible, though I'm not so sure that such a thing is worth listening... Technical stuff would of course be handled.

As for the audience... I didn't even consider this as a some kind of targeted project to catch audience for KVR artists, I thought of this as a service for KVR people mainly - people get a chance to get their material heard by other KVRers. How's that for audience profiling?

Of course, it all depends on what people want for such a net radio station. Our offer stands for what I broadly described above.

The 'motivation' for us (BombSquad) is rather simple. We're a large community of people, most of us work in ITC (or what ever it's called nowadays) related places, and there's a lot of DJs, promoters, artists, producers, musicians etc. involved. We're trying to offer a chance for others to get their material heard/seen and we're trying to avoid all commercial aspects of it - as the core people behind these projects are all involved with c oorporate and business crapola in their day jobs

Anyways... I'll talk about this to people in charge. Like I said earlier, the system already exists as we set it up last for our own purposes. Finally putting it into use would most likely activate our DJ people into doing this stuff too, which would be a positive thing in itself

Regards,

JMH

[Spe3D]

I have a number of servers USA and Germany – but I would not dedicate one to zero chance of getting any revenue from it, partiqually the European stuff where the same bandwidth is stupid money – I don’t have subsidised servers – so if you want to do it free on your own servers – I would just do it as there is potentially nothing to stop you, no need to worry about funds etc – all yours jmh I think the k-v-r crew will love it, seriously - just go for it and set it up.

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

[jmh]

That's the beauty of it, no revenues to think about. It would ruin everything straight from the start if anything related to making money was involved.

Regards,

JMH

[Kraku]

Hurry up!