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Thursday, August 21, 2008
The Great SAM Project!
The Plan.
A year ago I started making payments on SAM. What SAM is is a wonderful and very extensive program that will override the Live365 settings and run the station. It works in conjunction with Live365 but the music is not coming out of the Live365 playlist. This is a good thing as we are limited to 1000mb of space for music on the Live365 account and we use it all.
The only limit to the amount of songs you can run with SAM is the space where the music is stored. Spiffy.
SAM also generates an accurate playlist of all the songs on the station and gives people the chance to make a request! This is very cool, even when we're not live you can still make the mojo yours by making a request and hearing it played withan an hour (in accordance with Live365 rules).
It's a wonderful program but it's not something you spend all that money on and treat lightly. I started the 5 payment plan a year ago but couldn't pay that last payment until now. So now we're a go.
I have my other computer up here, my first last HP before this one. It's not a super machine but it was great for its time and it's a stable thing. I have lightning-fast business class broadband up here, another plus.
So the plan begins to form. Why not take the other HP and use is solely for SAM? Store all the music there and run SAM off of there. DJs can have remote access to the machine so they can use it for live broadcasting or whatever they want. It's up 24/7 and even if it goes down in a storm we still have the stuff on Live365.
Step one was to order a KVM switchy thing at the suggestion of Mango. I didn't even know such things existed and it was much easier on the wallet than a second monitor.
Today I sucked it up and ordered an internal 500GB hard drive and another RAM stick. It can only handle so much RAM but 1.5GB is enough for one application.
I want to fill up this 500GB hard drive with so much music it's not even funny.
Of course this means a lot of work for Meathe, once again I thank the Lady Fate that he has the patience of a saintly Seal and the knowledge to make this all come together. He's going to have to remotely go into the other computer and do all the setting up of the stuff and the .php end as well. I'm useless, I can add songs and diddle the .php but don't look at me to set up sql from the getgo. Nuh uh.
It's going to be pretty awesome once it's done, I've been waiting for this forever it seems. I love the thought of letting people make requests and I love not having to manually make a default playlist page that needs manual updating. I love the stats it shows you and the funky things it gives you. We've had an upswing in listeners and interest lately, I can't think of anything better to keep the momentum going.
Of course there's the reality end. That's a total of $500 I've spent this month alone on an internet radio station in a world that's chock full of internet radio stations. Do I kid myself or delude myself that this is somehow going to hurl us into the big leagues? No, no I do not. A year ago I would have said yet but not anymore. I'm not doing this to get noticed. I'm doing this because it's really awesome and it will make the listeners happy and maybe attract a few new friends. I can eat filet mignon without thinking I'm anything special, ya know? I'm doing this because I want to. I like it, my co-owners like it, my DJs like it. I have a mont-blanc pen I use for writing everything and ya know what? My handwriting is still left-handed messy. There is no ego involved here.
I'm excited, I can't wait for all the components to arrive and get started. Sorry, Meathe. I love you.
This will certainly keep my mind off kidneys.
A year ago I started making payments on SAM. What SAM is is a wonderful and very extensive program that will override the Live365 settings and run the station. It works in conjunction with Live365 but the music is not coming out of the Live365 playlist. This is a good thing as we are limited to 1000mb of space for music on the Live365 account and we use it all.
The only limit to the amount of songs you can run with SAM is the space where the music is stored. Spiffy.
SAM also generates an accurate playlist of all the songs on the station and gives people the chance to make a request! This is very cool, even when we're not live you can still make the mojo yours by making a request and hearing it played withan an hour (in accordance with Live365 rules).
It's a wonderful program but it's not something you spend all that money on and treat lightly. I started the 5 payment plan a year ago but couldn't pay that last payment until now. So now we're a go.
I have my other computer up here, my first last HP before this one. It's not a super machine but it was great for its time and it's a stable thing. I have lightning-fast business class broadband up here, another plus.
So the plan begins to form. Why not take the other HP and use is solely for SAM? Store all the music there and run SAM off of there. DJs can have remote access to the machine so they can use it for live broadcasting or whatever they want. It's up 24/7 and even if it goes down in a storm we still have the stuff on Live365.
Step one was to order a KVM switchy thing at the suggestion of Mango. I didn't even know such things existed and it was much easier on the wallet than a second monitor.
Today I sucked it up and ordered an internal 500GB hard drive and another RAM stick. It can only handle so much RAM but 1.5GB is enough for one application.
I want to fill up this 500GB hard drive with so much music it's not even funny.
Of course this means a lot of work for Meathe, once again I thank the Lady Fate that he has the patience of a saintly Seal and the knowledge to make this all come together. He's going to have to remotely go into the other computer and do all the setting up of the stuff and the .php end as well. I'm useless, I can add songs and diddle the .php but don't look at me to set up sql from the getgo. Nuh uh.
It's going to be pretty awesome once it's done, I've been waiting for this forever it seems. I love the thought of letting people make requests and I love not having to manually make a default playlist page that needs manual updating. I love the stats it shows you and the funky things it gives you. We've had an upswing in listeners and interest lately, I can't think of anything better to keep the momentum going.
Of course there's the reality end. That's a total of $500 I've spent this month alone on an internet radio station in a world that's chock full of internet radio stations. Do I kid myself or delude myself that this is somehow going to hurl us into the big leagues? No, no I do not. A year ago I would have said yet but not anymore. I'm not doing this to get noticed. I'm doing this because it's really awesome and it will make the listeners happy and maybe attract a few new friends. I can eat filet mignon without thinking I'm anything special, ya know? I'm doing this because I want to. I like it, my co-owners like it, my DJs like it. I have a mont-blanc pen I use for writing everything and ya know what? My handwriting is still left-handed messy. There is no ego involved here.
I'm excited, I can't wait for all the components to arrive and get started. Sorry, Meathe. I love you.
This will certainly keep my mind off kidneys.
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