[Sudo-radio] Welcome to Sudo Radio!

Thu Feb 28 09:06:23 PST 2013

I will be at first Friday, and am eager to talk about radio stuff if you
want to chat then! I'm curious if folks envision a sort of streaming music
source, or a more open-access public radio station... in some ways they are
very different, although we could incorporate aspects of both.

R.

mediumreality.com
On Feb 28, 2013 8:59 AM, "rusty lindgren" <rustylindgren at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 Mark... LMAO!
>
> Um, ethics are first philosophy, so I think we should figure out what's
> legal in tandem, and just start building the monster.   There are a lot of
> indie labels that offer cheap service, which we could subsidize with cheap
> ads.  It's about $200 a month to pay for licensing, and the music is solid.
>  Creative commons is usually junk, to Wooster's point.  And, if we could
> quickly build a user base, and even bundle an app for our tunes, I'm
> confident that we could pay for $200 a month or come close to it.
>
> We can build the antenna, but it might be more reasonable to buy one.  Who
> can meet up on this next week?
>
> -Rusty
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:33 AM, mark burdett <mark at 510pen.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I haven't been in there in a while. does the studio have a mixer that can
>> handle a few mics + a few line-level sources? i.e. something better than
>> the little DJ mixer I donated. It'd also be nice to have a relay to shutoff
>> the studio monitors when the mic is potted up.
>>
>> Comet CFM-95SL is a pretty nice antenna and we can get it for under $100 (if
>> someone can build something better, go for it :)
>>
>> I can help scrounge up parts to make a better+cheaper amp than what FRB
>> offers. maybe we could schedule an amp building workshop soon.
>>
>> Hi friendly neighborhood FCC person reading the list archives! isn't free
>> speech awesome.
>>
>> --mark B.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Mischa Spiegelmock <
>> thadwooster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Current status is somewhat indeterminate. There exists
>>> radio.sudoroom.org, a site with two mp3 streaming players, one pointed
>>> at a stream that Andrew set up I believe, and an icecast2 server that I set
>>> up at sudoradio.com. I can't speak much about the other stream, but it
>>> was silent when I tried playing it earlier.
>>> For the sudoradio.com stream, we have unmetered 100mbit bandwidth,
>>> native ipv6 if we care, and a 192kbps music rotation going at all times
>>> with a large selection of music that I think is pretty awesome. Some of it
>>> is mixes and DJ sets (some by yours truly), some of it is experimental
>>> indie electronic music. I invite you to have a listen, it's usually pretty
>>> bumpin': http://sudoradio.com/listen.pls
>>> There is a bot that reports the current artist/track and also the
>>> current stream title in #sudoradio on free node, and the website has a mp3
>>> streaming flash player that I wrote and also reports the current
>>> artist/track/stream title.
>>> Andrew had rightly expressed a desire to have access to the stream
>>> configuration and server, and I am happy to provide it. Please speak to me
>>> in person I guess if you are interested.
>>> It would probably be good to consolidate the streams. We can certainly
>>> make one a relay of the other, but that seems like it would overly
>>> complicate things for no benefit. I'm open to ideas on what to do.
>>>
>>> There has been some discussion regarding copyright, which is an
>>> absolutely valid and reasonable concern. I think there may be some
>>> consensus that addressing it is less of a priority until we actually have
>>> listeners and there exists some creative-commons-licensed music that isn't
>>> utter shit.
>>>
>>> We also have a 0.5w FM PLL transmitter for terrestrial radio, which as
>>> far as I know is functional and has a filter and everything. It needs a new
>>> amp which can run anywhere in the range of $20 to millions of dollars, I'd
>>> suggest a 15w amp kit from Free Radio Berkeley, which runs about $80. I'd
>>> be willing to purchase one if someone is willing to build an antenna.
>>> There's a link on a previous email I sent on the subject to instructions to
>>> manufacture one on the cheap with nothing much more than PVC pipe and some
>>> wire.
>>>
>>> I may lend a core2duo machine to the space that we can use as a
>>> streaming source client, and a raspberry pi that we can dedicate to always
>>> playing whatever is on the stream, that could be plugged in to speakers or
>>> eventually the FM transmitter.
>>>
>>> I hope that is helpful.
>>> -wooster
>>>
>>> On Feb 27, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Alcides Gutierrez wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi! Ill be in tomorrow to check the room out. Got a brief intro from
>>> Jenny last time I was there.
>>>
>>> Im working on a solo podcast (hoping to get thrown into the lineup). Im
>>> also interested in doing live shows (that also get recorded). I hope
>>> interviews via skype or what not are possible.
>>>
>>> Ill be there tomorrow about 700pm or so if anyone on this list is up for
>>> chat. Ill be sticking around for the 830pm mesh meetup. Take care!
>>>
>>> Alcides Gutierrez
>>> http://e64.us
>>> On Feb 27, 2013 9:02 PM, "Marina Kukso" <marina.kukso at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Welcome to the sudo radio listserv!
>>>>
>>>> What is the current status of the radio? What have people been working
>>>> on? What do we need to move forward?
>>>>
>>>> Marina
>>>>
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>
> Rusty Lindgren
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