I think it's a great idea

I remember when we had people, for example tempes and simcut, spinning in the chat. It was fun. And I think there's enough time for lots of people to spin, so I don't think that will be a problem..

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And with the fact that this forum has people from all over the world, it would b very easy to have people spinning through out the day

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Here's an idea:
Instead of various DJs spinning live on TA radio, various people can send Swamper (or whoever is running it) sets that they recodorded, and then based on how good they are they can all be played pre-rocorded. This is also kind of better for some DJs because some people can spin better pre-recorded sets than when they spin live (it's a psychological thing). please don't flame, it's just an idea

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Rustang, it is definitely a good idea for maybe during off peak hours, that we have the DJs that are too nervous for a live audience, to just record sets. Though, it is much more entertaining hearing a live DJ and chatting with him or her at the same time. In my time with TA, I have never heard one of our channel residents ever bad mouth a DJ that trainwrecked, maybe just pointed it out, but never go "U FUCKING SUCK!! UR JUST A WANNABE DJ!! GO BACK TO SPINNING WHEELS!!" nah, this doesnt happen..I know from experience...I have trainwrecked a few times, and I am still doing my weekly show. So to anyone out there that is a DJ, TA Radio is not about criticizing other DJs...It is about putting up a forum, where DJs can get the spotlight for a couple of hours, and expose themselves to the world. Its really all about the music, and thats what we are all here right?

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Originally posted by ABTsportsline Spective? I've never heard of him. I have a 24 hour radio station (FM) down here that i broadcast livesets (mainly armin and ferry, some marco v. and gielen thrown in) .... if i could figure out a way to shoutcast it, it would be able to be "another station" for trance.... But no one wants to help explain how things work in the shoutcast department. As for the TA radio idea, i think its great... but remember what happened last time we tried that? Besides i think we need to get more people listening to the "unknown tracks" streaming radio first.... that should be playing everytime someone enters the site. -ABT-

ABT, great idea, but it is illegal to broadcast a radio stream without their knowledge. Although I do sound like a total hypocrit because I download mp3s, but god damnit, I BUY VINYL! So yeah, since that radio station only broadcasts recorded live sets, we might as well just cut out the middle man and do that ourselves. I strongly discourage the idea of playing live sets of the big jocks out there, since the point of this is to provide a forum for DJs who arent as big as Paul Van Dyk and SPECTIVE, but are looking towards it. Tho, I doubt anyone could surpass this Spective guy, hes just BLOODY MARVELOUS.

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Originally posted by Spective Rustang, it is definitely a good idea for maybe during off peak hours, that we have the DJs that are too nervous for a live audience, to just record sets. Though, it is much more entertaining hearing a live DJ and chatting with him or her at the same time. In my time with TA, I have never heard one of our channel residents ever bad mouth a DJ that trainwrecked, maybe just pointed it out, but never go "U FUCKING SUCK!! UR JUST A WANNABE DJ!! GO BACK TO SPINNING WHEELS!!" nah, this doesnt happen..I know from experience...I have trainwrecked a few times, and I am still doing my weekly show. So to anyone out there that is a DJ, TA Radio is not about criticizing other DJs...It is about putting up a forum, where DJs can get the spotlight for a couple of hours, and expose themselves to the world. Its really all about the music, and thats what we are all here right?

It's true that live DJs are more entertaining, but this is a good alternative for the DJs with a slow connection, or certain setups which would prevent them from being able to spin live. I didn't mean anything about trainwrecking or anything like that, because i know that everyone has good/bad days, and that the people on this board criticize mixes in a posative manner.

And about "off peak" hours, there's no such thing. TA is worldwide and that means that at any given time there will be people listening.

One thing that really got me thinking though, is where would these DJs be spinning from? Not only would the main server have to be fast and stable, but if a DJ wants to spin from their setups at home they probably won't be able to. even those who have cable or dsl could face some problems because upload speeds are usually capped at around 50 k/sec. just thoughts coming into my head though...

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Good idea - but only if there's a required level of professionalism and quality present among the DJs. Strict schedules (if a DJ commits to a certain timeslot then he better honor the commitment). Also, a little more musical variety would be welcome, not have the same DJs bang out the same tunes over and over again. Also, bandwidth might be a problem as well, especially on a high-traffic site such as TranceAddict. I doubt Swamper would be able to provide bandwidth necessary for a shoutcast stream, especially considering the state the site is in right now.

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Originally posted by skywarp especially considering the state the site is in right now.

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Originally posted by Spective I strongly discourage the idea of playing live sets of the big jocks out there, since the point of this is to provide a forum for DJs who arent as big as Paul Van Dyk and SPECTIVE

Hah! although i hardly see how would they ever find out i was broadcasting radio stream? i have no commercials or anything, for all they know i could be a DJ spinning .... and besides, my operation is so lo-pro and lo-key that i dont think anyone would notice

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ok..so pretty much all of us think its a good thing...well thats cool.

I dont really think the server would be an issue, the way ppl shoutcast now doesnt use TAs server(I think) and we could do it the same way, just throw a TA label on it, and add a link...

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since i'm a production major for radio, i think i could whip up a batch of ID's to play for when the station is just running regular choons, or if someone wants to stick em in the middle of a liveset...

i could even make DJ identifiers... "you're listening to (insert name) live in the mix on tranceaddict radio"

if this peaks anyone's interest, i could spare some time, PM me if you're interested...

BTW: if you're a little sketchy on my skill, i'll be upping a demo tape to my website sometime in the near future (only my old on-air demo is up right now)

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I also think its a good idea although some little things should be changed so that the same thing wont happen again.

A year ago when we had it we used to stream @ low bitrate which was understandable because back then probably the majority was using 56 k at the time. I think thier should be a bitrate for low bandwith & people with high bandwith..

Also, alot of radio edits help . Not cheesy radio edits, but when someone isnt spining, a shuffled winamp playlist would do the trick . Some oceanlab, cosmic gate, above & beyond radio edit will do the trick & more . It's not a problem hearing the full tracks play, I mean there are a couple extended trax that are radio friendly. Just have to find them thats all.

And, dj's from both US & NL time zones heh. Not all people are able to hear people spin at all times of the day (peeps have different schedules).

Everything I said is pretty much

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ok... in reference to my post above... i'm currently working on station promos for our radio station, and i've finished one so here it is...

http://dj_shockwav.tripod.com/promo.wav
right click and choose 'save target as..'

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