[Kzyxtalk] Fwd: A proposal, and I need your collective memory....

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Thanks for including kzyxtalk in your broadside.  --beth bosk

On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:20:11 -0800, Norman de Vall <ndevall at mcn.org>
wrote:
> At last, we're included in the conversation:
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> FROM: "Jerry Fraley" 
> SUBJECT: A PROPOSAL, AND I NEED YOUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY....
> DATE: February 29, 2016 9:06:19 PM PST
> TO: "'Angela DeWitt'" , "'General Manager'" , , , "'Barbara Lamb'" ,
> "'Bob Vaughan'" , "'Cheri Christianson'" , "'Chris Skyhawk'" , "'Colleen
> Bassett'" , "'Dave Barre'" , "'Diane Hering'" , "'Doug Livingston'" ,
> "'Doug Mosel'" , "'Eric Labowitz'" , "'Floriane Weyrich'" , "'Fred
> Wooley'" , "'Gordon Black'" , "'Greg Krouse'" , "'Jamie Roberts'" ,
> "'Jeffrey Blankfort'" , "'Jeremy Dodds'" , "'Jim Heid'" , "'Jimmy
> Humble'" , "'Johanna Cummings'" , "'Katharine Cole'" , "'Linda
MacElwee'"
> , "'Lorena Calvo-Evans'" , "'Marcia Lotter'" , "'Marvin Trotter'" ,
> "'Michael Arago'" , "'Norman de Vall'" , "'Patrick Gomes'" , "'Pippa
> Thomas'" , "'Richard Herr'" , "'Rick Blaufeld'" , "'Ron Reed'" , "'Steve
> Garner'" , "'Tim Bray'" , "'Verge Belanger'" 
> 
> I have a proposal in mind in regard to the Internet streaming side of
the
> KZYX broadcasts… Bear with me here: We currently create 3 streams in
> real-time: 96 Kbps, mono encoded as stereo with high sample rate
> (44.1Khz) 32 Kbps, mono encoded as ????? same sample rate [This is a
> target for “dialup” users, and like, when did I ever get 32K on a
> dialup, like, um, never] 96 Kbps, mono encoded as ???? (checking) for a
> Shoutcast server Now I draw upon the collective memory about the
> Shoutcast connection—is it used for anything real??? The main stream is
> used to feed the jukebox (and more on that later, soon….) Shoutcast is
> a stream frontend, an “Internet Radio” index of sorts, basically
> micro-streamer marketing, however, this organization is a radio station,
> we absolutely /are/ a marketing organization, we don’t need the
> shoutcast exposure, it draws consumers away from our main product and
the
> outlets for consuming them. And in my opinion, that outlet should be of
> high quality. The proposal: I want to totally eliminate the Shoutcast
> stream and dedicate that bandwidth to create a quality full-stereo
> stream. The Good, The Bad, and the UglyThe Ugly—the small mixer that is
> used to control the levels on the streamer has reached the end of it’s
> life. The thing operates so hot that over time the solder connections
> inside are suffering, the pan pot unseats and leaves the right channel
at
> 0db, it’s annoying to have to check it so much. The Bad -- when I was
> untangling cables in the rack last night, I discovered the source audio
> for the rack is being drawn from an output meant for an FM
> transmitter—it’s not an audio output at all (it just so happens that
> the low end of the IF /is/ the MONO part of the signal, but it’s a
> signal meant to be connected to an audio input, so I’m just shaking my
> head on this one.) The Good – the AudioIP system blade in the rack has
> many extra outputs (only one really used, that’s the transmitter
> digital feed), and I want to create an analog mirror output and feed
that
> to a new little mixer, ultimately creating a stereo input to the
streamer
> device. [Oh, I see Johanna is already on top of the sound of The Bad and
> The Ugly in a different email. Awesome! So, memories, feedback, help me
> out here folks, I want to move forward unless the current configuration
> is critical to some world domination plan… J  Thanks all for tolerating
> my soapboxing! Jerry Fraley__Interim__ Operations DirectorKZYX-FM 
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> ">707-895-2324jerry_fraley at yahoo.com [41]  
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