New Audio Server Discussion

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by Olaf

Please stop using dynamic compression!!

Everyone is adding more and more FX to the audio material to give it punch -- but as a result all stations sound the same and dynamic expression in music is totally lost.

First I thought this is your tribute to the RIAA, because they want you to stream recordings with less quality!

So please -- never add any FX to the stream! Once mixed in you never can get the FX out of the signal again. There are a lot of winamp plugins available so that anyone can create his own level of dynamic compression if he wants.


Greatings from Germany
Olaf

I'm in no way a sound person, but isn't that an issue with recording of almost all music? I don't think Aural Moon does anything like that, it's just the quality of newer music.

[dangerboy]

Are there any plans to broadcast via port 80? Unfortunately, my company's firewall blocks the ports that the Moon uses. I still listen at home of course, but it sure would be nice to have AM all day!

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by dangerboy

Are there any plans to broadcast via port 80? Unfortunately, my company's firewall blocks the ports that the Moon uses. I still listen at home of course, but it sure would be nice to have AM all day!

I once offered to do this for Mossy when she couldn't access the streams from her employer's network. I could easily do this on my router. However, soon the AM web site will be adding to the traffic on my T1, so I will not provide such a mapping.

If you were to make as little as a $50 donation, you could get the 128K stream and it does have a port 80 transmission.

[jtmckinley]

WOOT! glad to see new server is up!

I don't know if this is the correct thread to post this since I dunno if the new streaming server is the same as the request page search server, but here goes anyway...

Today I was trying to request "I See You" off of the 1st Yes album and did a search for "I See You" by song name (both with and without quotes) and got an out of memory error from the server. Adding quotes seemed to help some, I didn't always get and out of memory error with quotes, but it seems it was matching any song with "I" in the name or something.

I then tried to search for "Yes" by album name and it only turned up 4 of the tunes from the record. Also there seems to be some issue with the paging of the search results, when I try to go to the 3rd or sometimes even 2nd page of the search it goes back to the top of full song list as if there were no search criteria.

Anybody else having issues like this? Am I doing something wrong? Is this due to the new server and some kind of config problem? Thanks in advance for any help.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by jtmckinley

WOOT! glad to see new server is up!

I don't know if this is the correct thread to post this since I dunno if the new streaming server is the same as the request page search server, but here goes anyway...

Today I was trying to request "I See You" off of the 1st Yes album and did a search for "I See You" by song name (both with and without quotes) and got an out of memory error from the server. Adding quotes seemed to help some, I didn't always get and out of memory error with quotes, but it seems it was matching any song with "I" in the name or something.

I then tried to search for "Yes" by album name and it only turned up 4 of the tunes from the record. Also there seems to be some issue with the paging of the search results, when I try to go to the 3rd or sometimes even 2nd page of the search it goes back to the top of full song list as if there were no search criteria.

Anybody else having issues like this? Am I doing something wrong? Is this due to the new server and some kind of config problem? Thanks in advance for any help.

The music (streaming) server and the web server are two different machines.

There's work afoot to get the AM web server moved to a new machine which I've provided but all of the parties involved have been busy with life things and the effort has gone to the back burner.

JamForte has been trying to "secure" the current web server. It's possible that he has gotten a bit over-zealous causing this error. I will ask him to have a looksee when he has some time.

[Tocatta]

Congratulations to you and to everyone who are doing this dream a reality,
the sound are very good , nice fidelity , choice of the music, and imagine if are good now, with a powered transmition......

Tocatta.

Originally Posted by Avian

The new audio server has been installed! Thanks to everyone who contributed funds for us to make this major upgrade. It has solved a lot of issues we've been dealing with, and it opens the door for tons of really great improvements and new features. It's always an amazing sight to see how much the Aural Moon community comes together to support our collective musical voyage.

The new server is a Dell SC1425 Dual 2.8 Ghz Xeon with 1 GB RAM, and like our old server, resides in our Chicago datacenter. It has a new 300 GB hard drive all ready for tons of new music, but of course, contains everything from our original extensive music library.

Use this thread to report any concerns or strangeness you hear - or for that matter good things! In addition to the new hardware, we're also running a new version of the streaming software (SAM). I know some people have noticed an increase in sound quality, and there are many more features to come!

We've had one bug report already that crossfading of the songs gets turned on automatically somehow - unfortunately, you can't turn it off again easily without inconvenience to the listener. I hope they'll address that bug in the future - meanwhile we'll keep an eye on it, and try and keep working on the issue.

Thanks again for your support again, and enjoy! Were movin on up!