I really want to continue my manlovefest with awdio.com, but the fact is that while the sound quality is kick ass, the site itself isn't reliable. I'm not gonna lie I was pissed the fuck off last Sunday when I wasn't able to get online and broadcast. I had a kick ass show planned out, I had just met and heard live one of the main musicians that I play on the show (Pete Berwick) and I was locked and loaded to premier the show on it's new site, with a new chat, and the embedded awdio player. Finally, all the elements of the show back in one place!
I was really pumped up and ready to go, awdio however wasn't. I had planned to continue to broadcast the show from awdio.com but instead of having to tell people to "click this link to hear the show, and type in this link to find us in our live interactive chat" I could just tell people to go to one site, click play on the player, type in a name and join the chat.
Apparently at the same time the powers that be at awdio decided that it was time to do some maintenance. Really, right now?
From all appearances, awdio was down for two days although it is back online and I would be able to broadcast right now as I type this. Until the next time, this is the second time that I wasn't able to do the show because of issues on the broadcasting site that I use to play the show.
So, needless to say I have been exploring other alternatives to broadcast the show. I posted a rant in the Facebook group for the show and a couple of regular listeners to the show have provided alternatives to broadcasting on awdio. I'll be flat out honest, the best option (icecast) will take more "know-how" than I currently have as far as html coding, as well as, well, just making it work. From what I've read so far, making the stream to the internet is actually not as hard as it might look, the downside is the embedded player would have to be provided from another site. That is the catch, sites that can provide code for an embedded player either want to charge, or are supported by advertising. The ads I can deal with, since most of my listeners are running an ad-blocker program.
I think my only option is to try and see how it works, at this point I don't think it could be any more unreliable than awdio.
Sorry people at awdio.com, you have a great site, and the sound quality is kick ass, but none of that matters if broadcasters can't broadcast.
Stay tuned guys, you know me, you know I will make this shit work.
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Show updates;
So far, in the near future I believe I have two musician interviews lined up. I need to find a reliable stream to broadcast the show with before I can commit to them. In the mean time, I will be using the awdio stream to broadcast while I explore other options. If anyone has any ideas please leave them in the comments section, thanks!
In the meantime as long as the awdio site decides to cooperate I will continue with the Sunday broadcast from there and use the embedded player on the site. Obviously this is a short term solution until I can find the better one.
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