2007-02-02
Slaygon

Some improvements

Hi,

As you may have noticed, there has been some glitches in the Matrix... err... stream lately.
Most of these has been due to some new stuff being implemented. Here's a little list of what has happened:

On the server end the following has happened:
* Upgraded version of SAM Broadcaster on the server
* New version of the compressor/limiter/EQ software, courtesy of Liket Leif
* We're not using the built-in encoders in SAM anymore, but something called LeifCast instead. Also courtesy of above mentioned Leif (DUH!)
* DJs are now able to get on air all by themselves using the automation scripts I've written (sounds simple enough, but there was more to it than you might think)
* The 24kbps and 56kbps streams are now using aacPlus for encoding. The 56kbps stream now sounds almost identical to the 128kbps stream.

On the cosmetic side of things:
* These pages are now slowly moving toward the use of Ajax (dynamic updates of parts of pages and other fancy stuff). Most noticable on the new NOW PLAYING thingy doodah that updates without the rest of the page updating too, which means you can actually use the IRC page without getting logged off all the time.
* [Edit] New favicon.ico, courtesy of luegisdorf! Thanks a bunch!

Erm. Was there something else? If there was, I've forgotten it. ;)
There are new features in the works that I bet you guys will like.

Hope you like the new bits (teehee, see what I did there?)


Cheers!