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19 January 2008

chrismear Radio MetaChat. So, I'm going to try and do a radio set. Starting at 9:30pm GMT, 4:30pm EST.→[More:]
I warn you now, it is going to be very random. And I'm not sure I've managed to figure out the technology yet. So it might be a complete and utter fail.

post by: chrismear at: 16:21 | 18 comments

GO FOR IT! I like random.

posted by wendell 19 January | 16:22

I am warming up with a test track now, which is completely non-indicative of the stuff I'm about to play. But if you can hear Bill Evans, then it's working.

posted by chrismear 19 January | 16:24

Oh, and I'll be in IRC if anyone wants to come and bitch at me, or whatever.

posted by chrismear 19 January | 16:25

It's working.

posted by box 19 January | 16:28

Awesome.

posted by chrismear 19 January | 16:28

Alright, here we go.

posted by chrismear 19 January | 16:30

Yarg! I love that "Too drunk to fuck" song, I love that whole album but that song especially. But I had to tune out quick though because I had my 4 y.o. in here as I was listening. There aren't many songs I wouldn't let her listen to, but that's one of them. I'll tune back in in a few...

posted by DarkForest 19 January | 16:47

Aw, shit, sorry. I should have posted some kind of warning.

posted by chrismear 19 January | 16:50

Anyone have any ideas why I can't connect to this? Neither WMP nor iTunes works -- generic 'network error' msg and hanging on 'connecting' respectively. Turning off Windows firewall makes no difference. Pinging kara.fast-serv.com (the stream server) works. I'm connecting through a college network, and I don't think it's ever worked for me in the past.

posted by matthewr 19 January | 16:58

No prob. No harm done. Things like that keep me on my toes.

posted by DarkForest 19 January | 17:01

No idea, sorry matthewr. (It does sound like some kind of college- or uni-level blocking, though. Speaking from experience, it doesn't take much to ingratiate yourself with the powers-that-be; I once got them to reset the DNS cache for the entire uni network because one of the sites I run wasn't resolving properly, merely because I was the first person to email them in about a year with any vaguely technical knowledge...)

posted by chrismear 19 January | 17:01

d-|-b

[this is good]

posted by lonefrontranger 19 January | 17:04

matthewr, the college might be blocking the port (9320). As a test, you might try to telmet to the port:

telnet kara.fast-serv.com 9320

(I don't think this will harm anyone.)

posted by DarkForest 19 January | 17:09

*attempts to marry chrismear's radio stream, then recalls that bigamy is frowned upon in this country...*

posted by lonefrontranger 19 January | 17:23

Great set chrismear!

posted by typewriter 19 January | 17:31

That's all, folks! Set list taken (posthumously) from my MeFiSwap mix from last year. (Cheatin', kinda I know.)

Thanks for listening!

posted by chrismear 19 January | 17:31

Yeah, it looks like 9320 is blocked. This might just be a college thing rather than uni-wide, so I'll try my faculty network on Monday. The college also blocks remote desktopping, which I have a legitimate need for, so I might try and get 9320 unblocked at the same time. The uni IT people are very competent, but my college ones are hopeless and would (hopefully) fall for any technical-sounding request.

posted by matthewr 19 January | 17:32

Dang, missed it.

posted by TheDonF 19 January | 18:51

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