Week #3 Assignment

It was a hassle make one of those icecast clients work, part of the reason is I use a PC. I tried different ones available for PC, and finally got one work - SAM Broadcaster! The sound quality is not quite good(I'm using 128kb/s format), and there is about 3 second delay.


So my second step is to create a flash interface where people can listen to my live radio show. I can do this in flash, but I'm just too lazy to re-do sth people already have done a great work. So I used a non-wordpress version of Audio Player Wordpress plugin, thanks for the authors to make this great util and make it free. It's nice-looking, small and customizable. It's not intended to playback a live sound stream, but I tried it and it works beautifully! So my first radio player is here: http://unwiredd.com/garage/broadcaster/radioplayer2.html.

I didn't stop here, coz there is even cooler things I can do with the great flash music players out there. This time I made a multi-channel live radio client that people can tune in different live radio channel. Isn't that cool? It even has my channel logo up there! Again thanks to the author who made XSPF Web Music Player! So there it is: http://unwiredd.com/garage/broadcaster/radioplayer3.html. I also got a Meebo chat window up there, so everybody listening to my live radio can chat with me in real time.


I just love flash!