Author Topic: RolandRadio 2020 (Read 8990 times)

RolandRadio · « **Reply #25 on:** 12:03, 18 March 20 »

Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 11:03, 18 March 20

@Targhan The OSSC/Hauppauge Rocket combination creates MP4 files which I then upload to YT. If necessary, I then use 4K video Downloader to strip the audio content of the YT files - aside from MP3 the only other audio file options are MPA and OGG.

We can read nearly any audio file as long as they are not drmed. So it’s no need to convert audio. I can test you audio formats here to check if your easiest way to save the audio files will run natively in our broadcasting system.

RolandRadio · « **Reply #26 on:** 12:07, 18 March 20 »

Quote from: Targhan on 10:22, 18 March 20

@RolandRadio Seems to work fine! I didn't hear the new songs, but I'm sure I will eventually .
Two suggestions:
- You should put the Mono stream on the front page too, because some people will use it (including me).
- The random algorithm is not great. I always hear the same songs. Lately I use a random on my local collections of my tracks and heard many songs I didn't remember and that I almost never heard on the radio.

Thanks for you great work!

We have now a list of every title we have in our database. So you can search for the titles. If they are in the list. They have been played on the station. Our database contains around 2000 titles. Played have been around 1300 now. So the list is growing live as the titles are played.

Check out [size=78%]https://rolandradio.net/titles[/size]

ComSoft6128 · « **Reply #27 on:** 12:37, 18 March 20 »

Cool,

If you can select the first ten files I will convert them to MP3 and send them to you in a day or so. . I should be able to do this on a weekly basis until all the files have been transferred to you.

RolandRadio · « **Reply #28 on:** 13:34, 18 March 20 »

Quote from: Targhan on 10:22, 18 March 20

- The random algorithm is not great. I always hear the same songs. Lately I use a random on my local collections of my tracks and heard many songs I didn't remember and that I almost never heard on the radio.

You'll find a detailed description of the playout rules on RolandRadio at our homepage: https://rolandradio.net/aboutus/rulesofplay

RolandRadio · « **Reply #29 on:** 14:03, 18 March 20 »

Quote from: ComSoft6128 on 12:37, 18 March 20

If you can select the first ten files I will convert them to MP3 and send them to you in a day or so.

As i hope to get every classical sound from the cpc i dont bother where to start with. just select them as you like.
For uploading we have a nice "how to" on our homepage [size=78%]https://rolandradio.net/participate/upload[/size]
Thank you!

ComSoft6128 · « **Reply #30 on:** 15:28, 18 March 20 »

Hi,

Filezilla gives this error message when I use it - "You appear to be behind a NAT router. Please configure the passive mode settings and forward a range of ports in your router.
Warning: FTP over TLS is not enabled, users cannot securely log in."

So no Filezilla for me - I have sent you a link to a folder on my new Dropbox account and you will be able to download the files from there.

RolandRadio · « **Reply #31 on:** 18:30, 19 March 20 »

I have added the first 10 titles to our database. They are playing at the moment.
I love it.
i needed to trim them all and to use a humming filter but this worked like charm and the audio files are now in a very high quality. Normalized all and added to the database.
I can not wait to get more classical stuff

Thanky again

ComSoft6128 · « **Reply #32 on:** 20:39, 19 March 20 »

Glad you like them, I'll get another ten off to you Monday or Tuesday.
Is there anywhere on your site that you could show that these were transcribed to the CPC between 1987 - 89 by Rob Baxter?

RolandRadio · « **Reply #33 on:** 16:05, 20 March 20 »

I will add the credits to the database i am setting up at the moment. So this also will be a way to add more informations to a single title. I just am planning the database setup and what fields i think i may need.

Targhan · « **Reply #34 on:** 19:06, 20 March 20 »

Why does the Title page indicates that 1279 titles are in the database? My collection has 1714 files, and you've added some more.

Targhan · « **Reply #35 on:** 20:10, 20 March 20 »

Another quirk, I don't think the "musician session" announcement was heard (David Whitakker at 7 on Friday). Maybe all musician announcements are discarded?
Or maybe it is ok and I didn't hear it?

RolandRadio · « **Reply #36 on:** 21:30, 20 March 20 »

The shows are not listed at the moment on the homepage but configured and play.
If i check the playlist on [size=78%]https://rolandradio.net/playlist[/size]
there is 1 hour between 19:00 and 20:00 only playing Whittaker.

Not every Artist played at the "Artist only"-Show has an own announcement. Due to lack of time years ago :-)
The only Shows with announcements are:
- Ben Daglish
- Johnatan Dunn
- Kangaroo MusiQue
- Targhan
- Tom & Jerry

Charles Callet and David Whittaker are not done yet. If you have a nice and funny text for their announcement: post it here

Targhan · « **Reply #37 on:** 21:33, 20 March 20 »

Yes, there is one hour of David Whitakker, this works great. But I thought there should be an announcement telling something like "and now... get ready for one hour of ...".

RolandRadio · « **Reply #38 on:** 21:35, 20 March 20 »

edited my last post to point it out

Targhan · « **Reply #39 on:** 21:44, 20 March 20 »

Ok no problem, I thought it was a bug

. What about my previous question about the title count that seems a bit low? Sorry to bother you with all this, I just want to make sure all the recorded music can actually be heard

RolandRadio · « **Reply #40 on:** 22:04, 20 March 20 »

At the page https://rolandradio.net/titles you can find all the titles played within the last three days. Those are 1332 titles at the moment.

The database itself contains 1867 titles. So we are near to the state that every title is been played on RolandRadio which is in our database. At the moment the https://rolandradio.net/titles page is one large page - so you can easily search it for a title you have in mind and if its on this list it has been already played on RolandRadio. We have reset the list two days ago to get the duration of the whole title database and it seems that every title is played within 4 to 5 days.

Targhan · « **Reply #41 on:** 01:25, 27 March 20 »

I have listened to RolandRadio quite a lot lately, especially at around 11pm for at least one hour, mostly two (while coding, of course

). I have already told you the shuffle algorithm was not good enough in my opinion. Now I have the proof! The same songs always come up (I still didn't hear the latest songs I uploaded).

What I did is very simple: thanks to your Playlist webpage, I copied/paste the yesterday's playlist, did the same today and compared the result. For one hour, here is the result:

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1	12542		2020-03-26 23:58:42	Tarann Ltd	Afterburner - Theme 2                                           PLAYED yesterday at 23:50:33
2	12656		2020-03-26 23:55:32	Unknown Artist	The Race Against Time For Sport Aid'88 (Games without frontiers)        PLAYED yesterday at 23:13:32
3	12105		2020-03-26 23:53:08	Unknown Artist	Magicland Dizzy - Main Menu                                     PLAYED yesterday at 23:31:30
4	12214		2020-03-26 23:52:37	Unknown Artist	Monty Python's Flying Circus                                    PLAYED yesterday at 23:37:15
5	12223		2020-03-26 23:52:35	Unknown Artist	Mountain Bike Simulator - Start Game                            NOT PLAYED yesterday
6	12316		2020-03-26 23:51:11	Unknown Artist	Prison Riot - Highscore                                         PLAYED yesterday at 23:49:08
7	11708		2020-03-26 23:50:05	Unknown Artist	Freddy Hardest                                                  PLAYED yesterday at 23:08:33
8	12259		2020-03-26 23:49:26	Unknown Artist	Nonamed                                                         PLAYED yesterday at 23:52:37
9	13172		2020-03-26 23:49:17	RolandRadio	Jingle - Ultrasyd (japanese)                                    NOT PLAYED yesterday
10	11630		2020-03-26 23:47:51	Elie Daniel	Fire!                                                           PLAYED yesterday at 23:07:07
11	12234		2020-03-26 23:45:42	Na th an	Sir Ababol - Ingame                                             PLAYED yesterday at 23:55:26
12	12874		2020-03-26 23:45:35	Unknown Artist	Wriggler - Game Over                                            NOT PLAYED yesterday
13	12821		2020-03-26 23:43:29	Unknown Artist	Wanderer                                                        NOT PLAYED yesterday
14	12387		2020-03-26 23:41:11	Unknown Artist	Rock'n'Roll - Ingame                                            PLAYED yesterday at 23:02:08
15	12639		2020-03-26 23:40:03	Unknown Artist	The Master Of Space - Main Menu                                 NOT PLAYED yesterday
16	12397		2020-03-26 23:38:38	Unknown Artist	Rygar - Theme 6                                                 PLAYED yesterday at 23:16:42
17	11686		2020-03-26 23:36:30	Unknown Artist	Fire & Forget 2 - Level 2                                       PLAYED yesterday at 23:19:32
18	11238		2020-03-26 23:36:25	Unknown Artist	Arkanoid - Theme 7                                              PLAYED yesterday at 23:40:45
19	13157		2020-03-26 23:36:17	RolandRadio	Jingle - MaV (english)                                          PLAYED yesterday at 23:06:59
20	12629		2020-03-26 23:35:20	Unknown Artist	The Armageddon Man                                              PLAYED yesterday at 23:33:54
21	11691		2020-03-26 23:34:02	Unknown Artist	Fire Land                                                       PLAYED yesterday at 23:18:06
22	12876		2020-03-26 23:31:36	Unknown Artist	WWF Wrestlemania                                                PLAYED yesterday at 23:37:46
23	12078		2020-03-26 23:29:32	Unknown Artist	Liverpool                                                       PLAYED yesterday at 23:26:29
1	12039		2020-03-26 23:26:28	Kevin Parker & Mat Something                                                    NOT PLAYED yesterday
2	12619		2020-03-26 23:24:18	Unknown Artist	Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles                                     PLAYED yesterday at 23:28:33
3	11789		2020-03-26 23:20:57	Unknown Artist	Gobot                                                           NOT PLAYED yesterday
4	12261		2020-03-26 23:20:21	Unknown Artist	Oh Mummy                                                        PLAYED yesterday at 23:23:26
5	13087		2020-03-26 23:16:52	Ron Klaren	Battle Squadron (Title)                                         NOT PLAYED yesterday
6	13166		2020-03-26 23:16:45	RolandRadio	Jingle - robcfg (german)                                        PLAYED yesterday at 22:26:16
7	12870		2020-03-26 23:15:35	Unknown Artist	Wonder Boy - Ingame                                             PLAYED yesterday at 23:10:17
8	11419		2020-03-26 23:13:44	Colin Porch	Dragon's Lair - Intro                                           PLAYED yesterday at 23:40:52
9	12806		2020-03-26 23:11:56	Unknown Artist	Demoniak 4 - Asm                                                PLAYED yesterday at 23:44:03
10	11666		2020-03-26 23:10:42	Unknown Artist	Fast Food Dizzy                                                 PLAYED yesterday at 23:42:40
11	12391		2020-03-26 23:10:10	Unknown Artist	Roland In The Caves                                             NOT PLAYED yesterday
12	11625		2020-03-26 23:09:16	Unknown Artist	Dwarf                                                           NOT PLAYED yesterday
13	11651		2020-03-26 23:09:11	Unknown Artist	Exploding Wall                                                  PLAYED yesterday at 23:47:12
14	12753		2020-03-26 23:06:28	Tony	Kidjo - (QuasarDisc 2 - Interview)                                      PLAYED yesterday at 23:57:35
15	12450		2020-03-26 23:04:45	Unknown Artist	Sirwood                                                         PLAYED yesterday at 23:00:25
16	13159		2020-03-26 23:04:37	RolandRadio	Jingle - Nilquader (english)                                    PLAYED yesterday at 23:31:22
17	11854		2020-03-26 23:04:04	Unknown Artist	Humphrey - Main Menu                                            PLAYED yesterday at 23:40:12
18	11865		2020-03-26 23:03:39	Imagitec Design Inc.	The Shoe People - Title                                 PLAYED yesterday at 23:00:01
19	12814		2020-03-26 23:02:04	Unknown Artist	Vigilante                                                       PLAYED yesterday at 23:11:56
20	11193		2020-03-26 23:00:14	Mark Tait	1943                                                            NOT PLAYED yesterday

Basically, most songs played at 11pm were ALSO broadcast yesterday at the same hour, but in different order!
Maybe your shuffle algorithm could be improved by... simplifying it? Maybe only prevent a song from being played if played 6 hours before or something like that and that's it? But that would be great if you could improve it! Thanks!

norecess · « **Reply #42 on:** 05:00, 27 March 20 »

Hello,

I have 2 requests on top of what @Targhan said

1. As a registered user, I would like to be able to request a song. Like, let's say, OK I'm in the mood of listening some tunes from Epsilon ; I can select few of them from Epsilon in the user-interface and they get queued. Once the "custom queue" (cf. user-requests) is done, you switch to the default playlist in place. Of course, the queue is visible to everyone, and we know who did the song request.

2. The white-only UI is a bit aggressive. Could you add a dark theme to it ? cf. user could switch to dark theme, info gets saved into a cookie (or in user's profile). Note that this is lower priority to me than 1.

Thank you

RolandRadio · « **Reply #43 on:** 18:51, 27 March 20 »

First of all: The title database is not extensive enough to generate a lot of randomness in the selection of titles. But I take a look at the playlist generator. At the moment we produce the playlists once every hour for the following hour. Probably the results would be better if we generated the playlist for several hours or even days. I will try this.

First of all, I want to introduce some kind of rating, so that single titles can be voted up or down. From the resulting "Top-X" list I will then try to generate an external playlist that will randomly assemble the Top-X titles for an hour and then transfer it to radio automation so that we can run a "Top of the Bleeps" hit parade at a certain time on certain days. Vice versa, we can also use "Worst of the system playlist :-) If there is a need for it? Maybe in the morning at 03:00.

After this function has been implemented, I will develop a wish concert function, where registered users can choose their favourite titles. These will then - combined with other wishes - also be played at a certain time. Depending on how well this is received, we can of course expand this function and the way it is used. It needs some patience :-)

Regards

Roland

norecess · « **Reply #44 on:** 19:19, 27 March 20 »

Your approach appears to be a bit complicated to me. Why not a pure, dummy random method for adding next songs in the queue ? Then just let users insert next song in the queue, when requested. No need of "top artists" and the likes (as much as I enjoy listening Targhan songs, I also want to be surprised with songs I never heard :-).
Note that this is a personal opinion, you do whatever you want with Roland Radio. It's already pretty good in its current state

RolandRadio · « **Reply #45 on:** 19:45, 27 March 20 »

The problem with requests for individual titles, that - if we want to provide the radio station with Gema/BIEM titles for a remix show at some point in the future - according to the regulations of the collecting societies, these may not be played recognizably at a defined time. So a function like "play wish xy next" is not possible without getting any problems. Just the "what comes next" function alone will be something we would have to remove as soon as we play Gema/BIEM-listed music.

But I'll think of something to make this work satisfactorily. Maybe it will be possible to play desired tracks always at the beginning of the following hour and arrange the wishes randomly, so that an exact playback time cannot be guessed anymore.

norecess · « **Reply #46 on:** 20:22, 27 March 20 »

Understood.

Then maybe that during the "special events", you could ignore user requests (with a message explaining that to the user) ?
(btw I like those events and it's a good idea to keep them)

Targhan · « **Reply #47 on:** 21:58, 04 April 20 »

Any news on the possible new playlist management?

RolandRadio · « **Reply #48 on:** 22:17, 05 April 20 »

I am working on it. You can find the progress of the project here https://rolandradio.net/aboutus/progress

At the moment I am working on the streaming server to get this stable

Targhan · « **Reply #49 on:** 17:25, 18 April 20 »

I think the "max" wording in the title bar is misleading. It's as if the server only accepted "max" connections. You should rename it to "peak", like you did in the mini-player.

Oh, there are now "artist hours" like in the old radio?

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Author Topic: RolandRadio 2020 (Read 8990 times)