[Novalug] Re: Audio Streaming

[greg pryzby]

Thx for answering the questions.

As a speaker balancing the slide (amt of text) to what is presented
verbally is difficult.

I personally try to minimize text and maximize verbal but that is
useless if the person didn't hear the talk. Using the 'notes' feature
and publishing slides + notes is something I think about doing.

My favorite talks are slides w pics that allow u to think as the
speaker talks but the slides are worthless after the fact!




On 1/3/08, W Alan Day <dayalan at nova.org> wrote:
> Roger W. Broseus wrote:
>
> >
> > I took a look at your slides and there are a couple of things I don't
> > understand. I'd like to see some specific examples of programs,
> > sources, source types, etc.
> >
> > In slide 5, you mention determining the type (?) of source and say,
> >     type, cat, or less .m3u and .pls files to find the real URL of the
> > stream
> > I don't understand what this means.  If one is in the process of
> > identifying a source, how does this work?
> >
> Using WXPR as an example, if you copy the link from their site you will get
>
> http://eastweb.streamguys.com/wxpr64.m3u
>
> This might not be the correct URL to use with streamripper -- sometimes
> there are extra URLs in this file that have boilerplate announcements.
> To discover the proper URL, save wxpr64.m3u to disk and use cat,   pls
> files work the same way.
>
> cat wxpr64.m3u
> #EXTM3U
> http://amber.streamguys.com:4370  (this is the real URL to be used with
> streamripper.)
>
>
> > Slide 7 - this line is too cryptic for me:
> >      e.g. ( 3 ) - .mp3, (2) - .mp3, (1) - .mp3, - .mp3 rename the -
> > .mp3 file to (4) - .mp3
> >
> if the -t option is used and the stream is interrupted by more than -m
> (seconds), streamripper will restart capture but won't overwrite
> previously captured material.  It changes the unnumbered filename to the
> next sequential name.  These partial programs can be reassembled by
> using the wildcard feature of bash after renaming the final unnumbered
> clip to the next sequential number.  Of course, the lost parts will be
> missing.
>
> cat \(*.mp3 > thistle.mp3
>
> > What is happening on Slide 8? What are the labels identifying and and
> > what are they used for?
> >
> The labels could be used with audacity to break up the captured stream
> into individual songs or pieces.  You may not want to bother with this.
>
> > Slide 10: is this a "program guide" that you use? Decode the
> > abbreviations.
>
> I collect multiple copies of Thistle & Shamrock (thistle) and Hearts of
> Space (HoS) program from different call signs in parts of the country
> that operated on different time zones.  The times have to be converted
> to local time for Kcron.  m (mono) & s (stereo) although I have
> experienced collecting both at once from the same station
>
> > Slide 11: what's this about? Relevance to audio capture?
>
> This map helps me decided what time zone a call sign is in.
>
> I guess I tried to telescope too much of my talk to be comprehensible to
> anyone who didn't hear it.
>
> HTH
> --
>
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