ZX-Radio-2 - alternative - now mp3.

ZXNet echo conference «music.zx»

From Kirill Frolov To All 25 October 2006

Hello, scl^mc scl> I have ogg-vorbis in my k-lite codec pack, it is installed. downloaded scl> still from this site, but Winamp doesn’t care - it doesn’t play, damn scl> :( A typical example of what happens when anything is installed and from where horrible. Then it doesn't work at best... I changed everything in the broadcasting procedure: * changed format to mp3. In the future I will think about two streams: one 64kbps (sechyas 96) mp3 -- low quality and one 96kbps ogg -- high. * now AyEmul does not connect directly to the codec, but is first encoded to mp3 files - which makes it possible to have everything played in mp3 form for the last hour and possibly in the future provide RSS links to these files (for downloading in the form of files). * refused to use a windows machine - it was not stable, that's all time rebooted (perhaps “does not play” is not due at all to codecs but with the fact that it still plays, but there is silence...) AyEmul runs under wine. * refused at the same time from esound. I'm looking towards PulseAudio - it's for work not Requires a physical sound card in the computer. * now it is possible to display the currently playing module (http://mercury.probapribor.spb.ru:8000 - below is the line "current song").* a silece detector is clearly needed, because many AY modules are crammed with silence (at the end) for 1, 3, even 10 minutes, which is completely unacceptable. Until then cut off the silence with sox. This, by the way, is another and most significant reason (again nik-o and a 5-minute pause...) for which direct playback Ay_Emul --> internet is a stupid idea. * some kind of “effects processor” is needed to replace the stupid ABC with stereo. The Sound Blaster Audigy does a good job of this - but that means... analog loopback. :-( And in general this is all a stupid idea. Because it's copyright. I'm not sure I'm capable interview N tens or hundreds of ZX composers and that at least half of them will give resolution.