Ok well it's not entirely a 'NEW' feature, it was around months ago but now it's back again...

I spent dozens of hours programming this thing late last year and I haven't really had the chance to implement it, so I'm doing it again now.

Basically it is a shoutcast stream that automatically pulls unidentified MP3 Samples from the Unknown Tracks section of the forums and streams them randomly.

The interface consists of a java applet that connects to a java server to get the streaming song information - so as you listen to the stream you can click on the 'Click to ID' button and have a new window open up with the thread that has that sample in it (as well as begin playing the sample again to verify it's the sample you heard - and if not, a link to listen to the song previously streamed)

Required:

Java Plug-in (Already in IE unless you have Windows XP)
RealPlayer 8 Basic (or higher)

The URL is www.unknowntracks.com - so go ahead and listen.

...Future things to add:

- Only listen to samples from a certain date range
- Only listen to samples posted for IDing by a certain user
- Only listen to samples who have been heard less than x # of times (to increase exposure/likelihood of a successful ID)

There might be some bugs, so if u find any please reply in this thread with them and be specific (OS/Browser/Real Player version).

It's working good for me.

One thing that would be nice is a feature to skip to the next song, in case listeners can't ID the current song.

Is it possible there could be a high bit stream? 128/96 kbs? or would that take up too much bandwidth

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Originally posted by inatrance Is it possible there could be a high bit stream? 128/96 kbs? or would that take up too much bandwidth

The purpose of the stream is to identify short sound samples, not to act as a radio - 24Kbps/11025Hz Stereo is sufficient for this

the stream is working fine

but when i click on the button to i.d. the song
a new window pops up that says 'tranceaddict chatroom' as the title
but the page is just the main TA page, but for the last maybe 15% of the page a new frame is there and it has a bunch of random threads from the message board

and when i click the button to i.d. the stream automatically stops


btw, this is a great idea...i could (and am) just sitting here for hours just going about my internet business (shup up haha) and listening to parts of songs...its great
good work

why not using mp3 streaming?

this way of idíng tracks is WAY GOOD!!
and it works very good! keep it up!

*edit maybe an idea to keep an restriction to the amound of min. the track can have because i just listened to 2,5 min to a track i didn't know upped by Junkx.. mmm maybe an idea

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Originally posted by warpedd_ why not using mp3 streaming?

Uh, it is MP3s that are being streamed, however Real Player is the ONLY player that can stream MP3s while embedded within a webpage _AND_ responds to javascript commands to stop playing (i.e. what happens when you press 'Click to ID') - these are two requirements that are necessary for all this to be integrated properly.

Kid_Lax - Regarding the chat window stuff, the file it loads after you click is dependant upon your screen resolution, I used the files I use for the chat room as a template and I guess I didn't change one of them, I just fixed it... wow.. that's been like that for months. Thanks - things are even faster now once you click the button.

TimportE - I already put that suggestion up in Unknown Tracks, if I have time I may cut down the 3+ minute tracks to 2 minutes, re-encode and post up again

It's not working for me...

I have IE v6.0.2600.0000 and RP v6.0.5.27.

The error is "invalid resource path string in requested URL" and it gives this URL:
mem://0A7DCC20/http://www.tranceaddict.com/unknown.ram

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Originally posted by one_deal I have IE v6.0.2600.0000 and RP v6.0.5.27.

Maybe that Real Player version is messed up, 6.0.9.450 and above work, get a version here (basic) rp8-setup.exe

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Originally posted by Swamper Uh, it is MP3s that are being streamed, however Real Player is the ONLY player that can stream MP3s while embedded within a webpage _AND_ responds to javascript commands to stop playing (i.e. what happens when you press 'Click to ID') - these are two requirements that are necessary for all this to be integrated properly.

mod_mp3 didnt work?

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Originally posted by intrinsic mod_mp3 didnt work?

mod_mp3 is a server-based solution, everything that is running the server works perfectly and interconnects flawlessly... The only possible modification would be the client used but as I said none other than Real Player allow embedding + controlling of the controls via javascript.