You can now follow updates to the Dreamland Blues Radio blog on Twitter. Our twitter ID is ‘dreamlandblues’.

I have other ideas about what to include in the Twitter stream but I’d love to hear your ideas. Drop a comment or an email to dreamlandblues at frontierdigital dot com.

C U on the bitstream.

You can now follow updates to the Dreamland Blues Radio blog on Twitter. Our twitter ID is ‘dreamlandblues’.

I have other ideas about what to include in the Twitter stream but I’d love to hear your ideas. Drop a comment or an email to dreamlandblues at frontierdigital dot com.

C U on the bitstream.

I’ve run Dreamland Blues Radio, a streaming internet radio station, since 1997. In the beginning I used WinAmp + Shoutcast streaming server on a Windows 95 machine. As the station grew in popularity and my then boss began to notice the bandwidth utilization of the R&D lab outside business hours (rats!) I came to the realization that I needed a more stable and scalable platform; enter Live365.

Of course, back then it wasn’t called Live365 (bonus points for anyone who can tell me the original name) but I was invited to preview the beta of the service – I jumped at it. The original setup continued to use WinAmp with the Shoutcast plug-in but the feed was then sent to Live365 for audience distribution; what is now called a ‘Live’ stream.

Continue reading Build a Live365 station using Linux – Part 1 →

I’ve change a few things about the site layout today.

• New site template – This one is called ‘Music’ and is available here.
• Added Live365 ‘now playing’ badge. – I’ve done away with the ‘now playing’ widget I was using and replaced it with an o-fish-al badge widget from Live365. It includes cover art for the currently playing track, track title and artist as well as links to play the stream.

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