- Joined
- Apr 20, 2011
- Location
- The shores of southern CT
It's been a while for a post from me here....new job, family stuff, all the things in life both expected and unexpected that sometimes get in the way of fun things to do.
First, the website for TeenBeat Mayhem is still on hold, looking for an affordable designer. Not impressed at all with the options for a D.I.Y. website.
I have been working for the past few years on a streaming radio station that plays nothing but the songs listed in both of my books, sprinkled with tunes that are not included (mainly LP-only tracks, songs from non U.S. groups, etc.). We've now rated over 18,000 songs from U.S. groups / performers, so that total will eventually comprise the streaming library for TeenBeat Mayhem Radio. I wanted to get the station rolling as soon as I had enough songs recorded directly from my own 45s, so the station will kick off this upcoming weekend. November 12th, Saturday, 9AM EST.
Here is some info - the station can only stream to listeners in the U.S., Canada, and Europe for the time being. The station will be hosted by Live 365. They are the only stream host available to include a no hassle / no paperwork required licensing package in their service. It is covered in the monthly operational cost. Live 365 states they are working on licensing to other countries like Australia, Japan, and Mexico to name a few.
The stream quality package is the only option for streaming with Live 365, 128 kbps. Of course, this cannot hope to match the sonic expectations of most of the G45 crowd, but for those who would like to have a streaming option playing your kind of music while you are doing something else, well, TBM Radio might be your option. I've worked hard to optimize the on-stream sound, having run test streams over the past month. The stream is in mono as well. All of my transfers are done analog, direct from the original 45 to disc, without any tweaking or added sonic restortation. I want to have the songs play as if you were at my place and we randomly selected songs from my collection. As I have at least 80% of all titles listed in both books, the transfer job is an on-going process. That is the reason TBM radio will just stream on weekends until further notice.
Start time is 9AM EST Saturdays, then going all weekend til around 9PM EST Sunday night. There are no commercials (well, at least until I get successful, ha!) and the stream is totally automated - no talking DJ or specialty programs. I do have voiced station IDs and promos that drop in between songs here and there. But the entire playlist streams fully automated, with the song selection based solely upon the TBM song rating by the algorithm I created. A song rated "1" is rarely selected. In the first 100 hours of playlists, only 5 songs rated "1" were selected. A "2" rated song was selected approximately 53 times. The bulk of selections per hour are songs rated 3 and higher. Once the bulk of the library has been transferred to digital, songs that are rated higher will be selected slightly more often than the lower rated songs, with a cap to protect against too many repeated plays per weekend session. The meta data tags are complete and differ from the normal / standardized tag categories. I wanted to include as much info as I could squeeze in, so you will see the decimal song rating next to the songtitle, the label and release number in the "album" meta tag, the location in the genre tag (60sGarage_TX) for a Texas state location. what you see will depend on the device you use to hear the TBM Radio stream. I have no control over the display, other than what appears on the TeenBeat Mayhem Radio Live 365 webpage. The people who listened to my test streams reported various results for the meta data display using their phone, tablet as compared to a computer or laptop.
The webpage is offline now, but will be up and running by Thursday. Hope those of you who can will tune in at some point.
This should be the link:
TeenBeat Mayhem Radio
First, the website for TeenBeat Mayhem is still on hold, looking for an affordable designer. Not impressed at all with the options for a D.I.Y. website.
I have been working for the past few years on a streaming radio station that plays nothing but the songs listed in both of my books, sprinkled with tunes that are not included (mainly LP-only tracks, songs from non U.S. groups, etc.). We've now rated over 18,000 songs from U.S. groups / performers, so that total will eventually comprise the streaming library for TeenBeat Mayhem Radio. I wanted to get the station rolling as soon as I had enough songs recorded directly from my own 45s, so the station will kick off this upcoming weekend. November 12th, Saturday, 9AM EST.
Here is some info - the station can only stream to listeners in the U.S., Canada, and Europe for the time being. The station will be hosted by Live 365. They are the only stream host available to include a no hassle / no paperwork required licensing package in their service. It is covered in the monthly operational cost. Live 365 states they are working on licensing to other countries like Australia, Japan, and Mexico to name a few.
The stream quality package is the only option for streaming with Live 365, 128 kbps. Of course, this cannot hope to match the sonic expectations of most of the G45 crowd, but for those who would like to have a streaming option playing your kind of music while you are doing something else, well, TBM Radio might be your option. I've worked hard to optimize the on-stream sound, having run test streams over the past month. The stream is in mono as well. All of my transfers are done analog, direct from the original 45 to disc, without any tweaking or added sonic restortation. I want to have the songs play as if you were at my place and we randomly selected songs from my collection. As I have at least 80% of all titles listed in both books, the transfer job is an on-going process. That is the reason TBM radio will just stream on weekends until further notice.
Start time is 9AM EST Saturdays, then going all weekend til around 9PM EST Sunday night. There are no commercials (well, at least until I get successful, ha!) and the stream is totally automated - no talking DJ or specialty programs. I do have voiced station IDs and promos that drop in between songs here and there. But the entire playlist streams fully automated, with the song selection based solely upon the TBM song rating by the algorithm I created. A song rated "1" is rarely selected. In the first 100 hours of playlists, only 5 songs rated "1" were selected. A "2" rated song was selected approximately 53 times. The bulk of selections per hour are songs rated 3 and higher. Once the bulk of the library has been transferred to digital, songs that are rated higher will be selected slightly more often than the lower rated songs, with a cap to protect against too many repeated plays per weekend session. The meta data tags are complete and differ from the normal / standardized tag categories. I wanted to include as much info as I could squeeze in, so you will see the decimal song rating next to the songtitle, the label and release number in the "album" meta tag, the location in the genre tag (60sGarage_TX) for a Texas state location. what you see will depend on the device you use to hear the TBM Radio stream. I have no control over the display, other than what appears on the TeenBeat Mayhem Radio Live 365 webpage. The people who listened to my test streams reported various results for the meta data display using their phone, tablet as compared to a computer or laptop.
The webpage is offline now, but will be up and running by Thursday. Hope those of you who can will tune in at some point.
This should be the link:
TeenBeat Mayhem Radio
alas I got the message "not available in your country". 
