[Imc-aotearoa-tech] Re: [A-IMC radio] Re: radio geeks

[Aaron]

> Kia ora koutou ko Aaron,
>
> I don't see any point trying to get anything new happening with the global
> radio stream until the new year when holiday hysteria has died down and
all
> the migrations off Stallman should be finished and most of the bugs ironed
> out. If we can make audio files downloadable and streamable off Paranode
> let's just get on with that.

Fair enough, and I have my show successfully streamable in both Ogg and mp3
from paranode at the moment - links available from my website, a friend of
mine in the UK has been listening to the show. He says that he can't skip
through the file so there is definitely a need for people to be able to
donwload a file to play at their leisure.

Thinking further about that, I also imagine that people may like to download
one interview that interests them instead of the entire show as well,
Certainly anyone (like me) who is looking for interviews to play on their
own shows will prefer that. I'd say it would be ideal to be able to do both.

Then there's the issue of how much we archive, Paranode certainly seems to
be a monstrous storage space.
>
> One approach we could take it to make a radio.indymedia.org.nz page with
an
> index of all the audio that is available.

Have you viewed the www.radio.indymedia.org site, I often pick up stuff from
there - audio files are published in the same way that written articles are
on the main sites, except they disapear off the end of the wire, never to be
seen again after a time. Something like that could be good for us although
it would basically only have my show on it for a while (and maybe Joe
Citizen's).

The thing is, I have no idea whether there are another hundred people doing
a show like mine or if I am the only one in NZ (in which case we may as well
just post to the global audio wire or the mainA-IMC site). Possibly if we
have a nice bold link on the main A-IMC site to a new audio site that might
bring a few people out of the woodwork over time.

long term, a page like that will definetely be required though

 Then we need an indyradio tech
> with the Paranode FTP password for each part of the country with a radio
> program that wants to participate. They will be responsible for liasing
with
> program makers and station technicians in their area and organising
uploads
> of suitably edited program files in .ogg.

Yes, but who? Do you have people in mind, for instance the Earthwise people
I imagine don't use computers  much so you'd have to find someone with a
high level of dedication to organise someone else's show. Your thoughts -
can you find these people?
>
> I like the idea of having people uploading their own shows using the
> newswire, is this a problem? Am I correct in thinking the AIM site
> automatically flicks them on to Paranode anyway? Or does this still need
to
> be set up? This will still require some skill-sharing sessions at the
local
> level on audio digitisation, file formats and uploading process.

I have no idea whether things are flicked on to Paranode or not, the one
time I tried to upload an audio file to the A-IMC site it wouldn't work.
As for skill sharing - do we feel a wiki coming on?

>
> In the context of this, what should the imc-aotearoa-radio list be used
for?
> If we use it to share tech tips program makers will get flooded and unsub.
> Do we want this to be a techy list and have a separate mailing list for a
> newsmail to program makers? Or do we want to move techy discussion to
> imc-aotearoa-tech and keep this as a low-traffic general radio list?

I think at the moment a single list will be fine, when we get to the point
where there are lots of both types of discussion then we could split it up.

Maybe we can do some kind of 'presentation' about radio at the next IMC
'gathering', present the vision and see who is interested and ask the group
a few questions ourselves. Is that how things are done in the IMC?

Aaron

PS sorry this is all stream-of-consciousness, it's weird trying to plan
something when so many variables are unknown


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