Just uploaded last nights mix for your downloading pleasure... Starts out a bit minimal and works it way up to be a bit more housy and progressive near the end.
Click Here To Download! (105M zip file)
I have been running an internet radio station for the greater part of the past year now. Originally I had hooked this up to be a mostly auto pilot project, and my setup consisted of uploading mp3 files to one of my co-located servers, and then having mpd stream to shoutcast, so that it was sort of like iTunes in the sky.
As the year has progressed I have been getting more and more into music in ways I could never have imagined. I have been learning how to mix, and gathering an insane amount of music. Needless to say, after the first few sessions I was determined to figure out how to broadcast traktor straight to shoutcast.
At first this seems trivial right, because Traktor has support for internet radio broadcasting, yay! Wrong. Turns out Traktor did not want to pay royalty fees to license mp3 technology in a way so they can stream it so they decided to cheap out (it's not like Traktor is free, c'mon N.I.!) and only support the less popular (but totally decent) Ogg format.
This being the case, that means that to successfully plug Traktor into shoutcast we have to run a middle man program, via one method or another. The first method I tried was Nice Cast which is a mac friendly application that simply takes the raw output of your soundcard, transcodes it to your desire, then sends it to shoutcast for you. In practice this is not too bad of a solution but there was several reasons I was not feeling it, including added latency, wonky gain levels, occasional distortion, and the fact that its closed source and a mac only app (no running it on a unix server).
More after the break...
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I just released RMine, an open source iPhone application for interacting with a Redmine project management server over on github. This is actually the second incarnation of RMine, the first one was a bit more basic and was pretty much our first iPhone application.
This version is newer and snazzier and comes with its own redmine plugin for now. Eventually the goal will be to have it run with out-of-the-box redmine 0.9 or 0.10 when the restful api is far enough along where nothing else is needed. I am told that progress is being made every week on that front so it should not be long now.
Screenshots:
Check it out..
I can't believe that its 2010. Just saying it is mind-blowing enough, rather than believing its really here, but I am stoked!
This year I managed to not delete any pictures from my phone, although I could have taken a lot more, here are some highlights:
If I could only have a nickel from all the awesome moments from this year I forgot to photograph I would probably have enough to buy a pitcher, sigh. Alas, it was a very busy year and it had epic highs and a few lows too. The economy this year did start to effect us, but we have pulled through and things are starting to pick up.
In other news, this year we bought our first home which is super awesome and exciting! We are finally getting all settled in and are really enjoying it.
Besides slinging code, we just bought our burning man 2010 tickets (woohoo!) and are getting ready to go to Frostburn 2010 to be part of Bat Country PGH! Maybe there I will remember to take some more pictures :)
Well its official. I am now a homeowner. Exciting. Thrilling. Terrifying. And in leu of that, here is a new mix:
Click here to download!
Definitely far from perfect, but making small bits of progress each time! This one runs about 58 minues. To be played at full volume.
