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Title: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 08:39, 08 April 15
Hi there. I want to annonce, that our new radio station called "Roland Radio" now is official online. We are streaming the finest Amstrad CPC tunes as 128 kbit/s mp3 streams in stereo and mono and also have a 64 kbit/s ogg stream set up.
You can find a track list showing the latest 128 tracks played also as webplayer and all informations about the Roland Radio in the news section.
Follow us on twitter @cpcradio or on Facebook - get in touch with the greatest tunes on cpc.


A big thank you to targhan for giving us his collection of cpc tunes for our databases.
And now: tune in!
Roland Radio | Amstrad CPC music & very much more (http://rolandradio.net)
Title: Targhan Only - Every Wednesday from 13:00 to 14:00
Post by: XyphoesRe on 12:04, 08 April 15
You like the music of Targhan? So you will love our special program on every Wednesday. Enjoy the best CPC tunes from Targhan from 13:00 to 14:00. You'll love it. Check out the schedule at Roland Radio | Amstrad CPC music & very much more (http://rolandradio.net)
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Neil79 on 12:05, 08 April 15
Awesome, added to foobar  ;D
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Targhan on 20:19, 08 April 15
Great stuff :). Glad you could release this so quickly! It's a rare event on CPC :).
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 20:48, 08 April 15
:-) Mr. Quickly they call me sometimes  :P



Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: villain on 21:23, 08 April 15
Quote from: XyphoesRe on 20:48, 08 April 15Mr. Quickly they call me sometimes  :P

Even Randy does? ;-)

Need to integrate the stream into the Radio-plugin of XBMC. m3u should work, I think...
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 21:23, 08 April 15
Yes, you can also add the new MONO-Stream for the STEREO-Hater :-) like me :-)
Title: Be on Roland Radio - send us your voice!
Post by: XyphoesRe on 00:40, 09 April 15
Do it like some others did before! Send us your voice like MaV did: http://rolandradio.net/jingles/mav-en.mp3 (http://rolandradio.net/jingles/mav-en.mp3)


record your voice like in the sample above if you add some greetings and what you think should be on the radio. email your track as MP3 or any other sound format to info@rolandradio.net. We add some nice CPC music and play it on the Radio. Check our track list on Roland Radio | Amstrad CPC music & very much more (http://www.rolandradio.net)


And if you like - you can also send us a version in your mother tongue like Optimus did: http://rolandradio.net/jingles/optimus-gr.mp3 (http://rolandradio.net/jingles/optimus-gr.mp3)
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Neil79 on 22:58, 09 April 15
I've listened to this all day! Bloody fantastic
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: CraigsBar on 00:40, 10 April 15
Quote from: Neil79 on 22:58, 09 April 15
I've listened to this all day! Bloody fantastic
I'm not the only one then. I love the hourly beeps.
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Neil79 on 00:41, 10 April 15
Quote from: CraigsBar on 00:40, 10 April 15
I'm not the only one then. I love the hourly beeps.


hah Yeh, the only thing that threw me was the interview :p
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: CraigsBar on 00:42, 10 April 15
Quote from: Neil79 on 00:41, 10 April 15

hah Yeh, the only thing that threw me was the interview :p
:)
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Neil79 on 00:59, 10 April 15



I loved this station so much I featured it!


Indie Retro News: The latest free games, indie games and retro news: Roland (http://www.indieretronews.com/2015/04/roland-radio-top-quality-streaming.html)



Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 12:35, 10 April 15
Great that you all like Roland Radio.


If you have any questions, ideas, improvements, suggestions, fruit cake - write a message.

Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 18:21, 11 April 15
We now have added an small external Radio Player which you can use from our homepage. A small window will pop up in your browser and plays Roland Radio. Also the information about artist and track are updating now so you can see what you are listening.
Check our Homepage Roland Radio - Amstrad CPC music & very much more (http://rolandradio.net) and start listening to Roland Radio.


Thats what the player looks like:
(http://i1.wp.com/rolandradio.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Roland-Player.png)

Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Neil79 on 20:56, 12 April 15
I can't stop listening !


NEVER CLOSE IT DOWN, EVER!
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 19:25, 13 April 15
At the moment we are in maintenance mode :-) We have to update three(!) wiondows pcs. Last update was 2012, so it is really necessary. at the moment we are updating the main studio pc, so kangaroo sits in front of the displays and also plays with the mixer and checks if everything is ok. hopefully we will be back in normal mode at 9pm, so we can continue to send the finest CPC music :-)=
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: TFM on 20:38, 13 April 15
Nice to see, how this all evolves. Can we add our own (CPC) songs too? Or is already "full". Guess Targhans collection is really big.  :)
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 20:45, 13 April 15
If you have some nice MP3 of CPC tunes you can send them to info@rolandradio.net If you should have a huge collection we also can give you access to our FTP system where you can upload a few gigabytes.
Title: Maintenance-Mode-Song :-)
Post by: XyphoesRe on 22:55, 13 April 15
As Roland Radio was down today for two hours due to Windows updates, we decided to make a nice Maintenance Mode Song for Roland to sing along in loops during the next maintenance :-)


This is the File: http://rolandradio.net/radio/maintenance.mp3 (http://rolandradio.net/radio/maintenance.mp3)



Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Neil79 on 23:17, 13 April 15
hah awesome
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: TCMSLP on 09:47, 14 April 15

I've been listening to Roland Radio the last few days.  Very nice! 

My only comment would be some tracks are too short - perhaps the shorter tracks should be allowed to repeat twice (I know probably not practical unless they're converted to streaming format on the fly?)  :)


Steve
TCM/SLP
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 12:19, 14 April 15
Hi. they are converted on the fly from flac format into m3p and ogg for streaming. But as they all have a fade out at the end  >:(  its not possible to loop them without having a gap.
So what i will do next is to remove all the tracks < 15 seconds to the jingles section, so they will only be played on our cartwall and/or before and after station ids and stuff. That will be the best to handle it. also i then can do a kind of "jingle show" or some contest "guess the jingle" :-)

Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: TCMSLP on 16:32, 14 April 15
I thought you may have converted them from a module format on the fly.

It's not really a big issue - just occasionally I'll start to enjoy something for it to then end abruptly :)

Roland Radio is currently keeping me sane at work.


Steve
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Targhan on 19:42, 14 April 15
Personally, I like the jingles and wouldn't remove them! They are part of the whole experience :).
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 21:02, 14 April 15
like the "time beeps" ? :-) lol



Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Neil79 on 23:52, 14 April 15
Any idea what keeps causing this on RR?


Decoding failure at 0:37.590 (Connection error):
"http://streaming.rt.cmo.de:8000/rolandradio" (http://streaming.rt.cmo.de:8000/rolandradio");
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Carnivius on 00:46, 15 April 15
It's currently 00:45 GMT and I'm up late working on Cosmic Prison Commando while the catchy and somewhat spooky theme from Prince of the Yolk Folk plays on Roland Radio streaming through my Winamp.   Good times.  :)
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Neil79 on 11:52, 15 April 15

Decoding failure at 3:56.884 (Connection error):
"http://streaming.rt.cmo.de:8000/rolandradio.ogg" (http://streaming.rt.cmo.de:8000/rolandradio.ogg");


And again, it was fine pre maintenance
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 12:13, 15 April 15
We have no issues here we know. You can try the mono stream or the ogg stream.
But: we will change streaming server to a newer version at the weekend i think. So we also wil add 64 kBit/s-Streams for MP3 stereo and mono i think.

Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Neil79 on 12:34, 15 April 15
Quote from: Roland Radio on 12:13, 15 April 15
We have no issues here we know. You can try the mono stream or the ogg stream.
But: we will change streaming server to a newer version at the weekend i think. So we also wil add 64 kBit/s-Streams for MP3 stereo and mono i think.


Cheers, shame really as it was fine before the maintenance.  The other radio stations are fine that I also listen too :/
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 18:38, 15 April 15
I'll check the system later today.
does anybody else have problems with the stream?
As i can not see any problems and the stream was 100% available today (as i listened to it) :D


But i'll check.

Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: TFM on 17:43, 16 April 15
Well, yes, it's like it arrives "chunky"... how can I say that... like a slow Skype connection.

Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 17:53, 16 April 15
On any "problems" you want to tell me, i need the following informations:
With this informations i am able to check the log files to approve that you've been listening and that there was a downtime of the stream service or anything else.

Without these informations i can not even tell if it's dark outside or not. So please - if you report problems do this as detailed as possible. As i am listening itself to the radiostream the whole day i have not registered any issues which not was later proven to be a track of crittersoap or crown :-)

Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Octoate on 18:08, 16 April 15
No problems here. I used VLC and the stream which Neil79 posted in a previous posting.
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Neil79 on 18:43, 16 April 15
Using Foobar, Mono stream!


I think the problem is the internet connection at my family home, not the beastly one at my place. Usually when the bandwith is a problem on any other radio player it cuts out and cuts back in again, however on Roland Radio, any form of break or lag causes a complete shut down of the stream.


Does this make sense?  :)
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 19:53, 16 April 15
Yes, makes sense  ;D  NO Roland Radio is better than stuttering Roland Radio  :P


Maybe i should set up a 64 kBit/s stream? But i also switched today from "real stereo" to joint stereo wich reduces bandwith and increases quality
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: TFM on 20:56, 16 April 15
Using the internet address and online player, it seems to work pretty well now. Don't know it you changed something or it the net is just more free now. Good work anyway!  :)
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Neil79 on 22:17, 16 April 15
Quote from: Roland Radio on 19:53, 16 April 15
Yes, makes sense  ;D  NO Roland Radio is better than stuttering Roland Radio  :P


Maybe i should set up a 64 kBit/s stream? But i also switched today from "real stereo" to joint stereo wich reduces bandwith and increases quality


That would be good ^, for people with really poor internets..


At home I can use the full wack, Fibre Optic :D
Title: New Streaming-Server also on Port 80 for "business use" :-)
Post by: XyphoesRe on 18:21, 19 April 15
NoRecess wanted it, and so we did it :-)
We now have a new streaming server set up wich not only runs on Port 8000 like the most shoutcast/icecast player expect, but you also can use now Port 80 for "listening through firewalls" at the office during work time. Yay!.


Check our the brand new IceCast2-Server at: Roland Radio Streaming Media Server (http://streaming.rolandradio.net/)



Title: Rate the music - make a Top 10 of CPC Sounds
Post by: XyphoesRe on 16:32, 26 April 15
I have implemented a first, small "rating" system, so you can now give +1 / -1 to the tracks at the track list.


Roland Radio track list | Roland Radio (http://rolandradio.net/the-roland-radio-track-list/)


I will make this a bit nicer in coding and optics soon.
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: TFM on 17:29, 26 April 15
Wouldn't it better to keep it positive?
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 18:10, 26 April 15
no, because we want to see, which tracks are great and which are not. if a track is rated too high in a negative way it will only be played on request on the station. if we do this only in giving "points" we have to define the "play it"-level over and over again.-

Title: Re: Rate the music - make a Top 10 of CPC Sounds
Post by: tastefulmrship on 18:12, 26 April 15
Quote from: Roland Radio on 16:32, 26 April 15
I have implemented a first, small "rating" system, so you can now give +1 / -1 to the tracks at the track list.

This is a great addition to an already amazing web-site/radio. However, I have just "+1" TURBO BOAT SIMULATOR 15 times and now it's #1 on the Top Ten list. Is there any way of stopping people from abusing this new feature?
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 18:34, 26 April 15
Yes, we will add some routines to avoid "up/down"-voting  :-*
But this takes a while. as i coded the last time as php/fi was actual (google it) i need some time to get in touch with those nice new things in php5 and jQuery and stuff. not that easy for an old Roland :-)


I just start to implement those basic functions and will do the "dont abuse"-stuff later on. As i have to modify the databases behind while i learn how to combine things and functions :-)


So at the moment the Radio Station is posting the played tracks, i add them to the databases and on the same second they appear at the artists page if not already listed. Lot to do. But it will get better and better from weekend to weekend :-)

Title: Re: Rate the music - make a Top 10 of CPC Sounds
Post by: TFM on 20:52, 26 April 15
Quote from: Jonah (Tasteful Mr) Ship on 18:12, 26 April 15
This is a great addition to an already amazing web-site/radio. However, I have just "+1" TURBO BOAT SIMULATOR 15 times and now it's #1 on the Top Ten list. Is there any way of stopping people from abusing this new feature?


Yes, there is: Just don't do it!
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Targhan on 22:08, 26 April 15
I admit I don't think it's a good idea to rate music. For your own music collection, it's relevant, but no that much for a CPC radio. Music is a very subjective thing. For example, you might want to love the "Ranarama" music because it's a great game and it reminds you fond memories. Yet, the music isn't very good, objectively speaking :). Yet it has the right to be played as much as "Space Debris by BSC", because the guy that loves playing Ranarama maybe didn't give a crap about the demo Space Debris first appeared in.


I am more for a "play it soon!" button that would program the song in a while, with a security for preventing it from being played too often.


Just my 2 cents...


Trg.Aks
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 23:13, 26 April 15
at the moment its just a "rate" music fuction. very raw. not implemented in anything.
i am thinking about to pair rates with profiles so you have your own "top10" and a kind of mark for your most loved sounds but its very very rare at the moment. i try to refresh my coding skillz with this little project. who knows where it will end up :-)



Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Targhan on 23:58, 26 April 15
What could maybe be a good idea would be to have an "all star songs" session for one hour that would only play the highest rated songs.
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: villain on 06:40, 27 April 15
Quote from: Targhan on 23:58, 26 April 15
What could maybe be a good idea would be to have an "all star songs" session for one hour that would only play the highest rated songs.
I like the idea, even if I think the songs will be the same for ages... So it might get a bit boring over the years.
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: XyphoesRe on 08:05, 27 April 15
Oh i would more like an hour of "Best vs. Worst" - but you wont know which one is what :)

Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: McKlain on 08:10, 27 April 15
Well, you can make something like "top-rated songs of the month", besides having the all-time top-10.
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Neil79 on 17:45, 17 May 15
I have just put this tune in to my **list, it's awful, annoying and probably the WORST tunes I have ever heard on a radio! I always turn the radio station off when this plays  :-X
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Gryzor on 18:44, 17 May 15
Heheh works perfectly on my Kodi media player, much to the annoyance of the significant other


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:D
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Carnivius on 19:52, 17 May 15
Got it working on my PS3 too which is nice cos I've been using that to play music on a lot lately while I code my games on the laptop so I have a bit more speed out of my laptop.  :)

Haven't figured out how to get the artist and track title showing on it yet though.
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Carnivius on 20:22, 17 May 15
Hm, still not figured out how to get track and artist names but I did figure out how to assign an image file from the rolandradio site to the stream.
(http://i.imgur.com/E1g6OLi.jpg)
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Dizrythmia on 06:45, 26 May 15
I am loving this. I put it on when I'm working on lesson plans for my class & I put it on when I study at home. My partner has reliably told me "it's not real music you know... It's supposed to be played with the game..."

Bless her, she doesn't really get it :)
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: McKlain on 07:36, 26 May 15
Well, everyone is entitled to have an opinion...  :laugh:
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Gryzor on 17:15, 07 June 15
That's not an opinion, it's WRONG. And this is not an opinion.
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: RolandRadio on 18:27, 02 February 19
Some new tunes on the station.


Is someone interested to do a little Amstrad CPC podcast or kind of ,,show" to be played on Roland radio once in a while?
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: Gryzor on 08:59, 03 February 19
I've been waiting for a CPC podcast for a while...
Title: Re: Roland Radio - Your Amstrad Chiptune Broadcaster
Post by: geebus on 12:54, 12 February 19
This is one of the best things ever.
I've since passed it round my Office.
Thanks for your hard work!
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