I updated WordPress this morning and it has caused a few problems with all of my sloppy little K2 hacks. Updated K2 also, which seems to have gotten a little more complicated recently– I feel like I lost a little bit of control, but maybe that’s a good thing. Anyway, hopefully I’ll have it all sorted shortly.
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Today, when Quinn was testing stuff our for our i312 webcast tomorrow, he pointed me to Nicecast and promptly blew my mind. He was interested in its talk-show type features, but the fact that you can use it to broadcast any kind of sound from your computer is what got me excited. I could barely make it through my class tonight because all I could think about was rocking some vinyl on the internet.
So, after setting it all up (which was pretty easy, once I realized I needed to set up a static IP address for my laptop), I was playing "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Home Computers" and Morrissey’s Viva Hate for Trei and Sam to enjoy however they wanted to in the privacy of their own respective homes. Just put my computer in the counter (see pic), plugged in the cable and bam. (By the way, I’d have to put "Alsatian Cousin" up there with best album openers, though it certanly doesn’t reflect the rest of the album)
The moral of the story is, The Phonograph Disaster can now play records for a remote crowd that only half-wants to hear them. This is exactly the impetus I needed to get back into my record collection since the big shuffle it underwent when we moved. I just need to figure out a good time to spend a couple of hours online when someone wants to listen. Some of you with real jobs– I will play custom sets for you!! Just let me know when and what. No more NPR mornings for y’all.
Nicecast also broadcasts your iTunes if you want (including tracknames, which comes with some baggage), or any other audio source on your machine, and you can apply all sorts of effects to the broadcast channel. I’m still not sure how exactly to execute it, but methinks this could lead to remote freakout jams with some mindmelting feedback. More on that as things develop.
I’m also excited about using it as an excuse to interrogate everyone I know via Skype, and to explore it as a remote karaoke option, modelled after what Jeremy used to do over paltalk (?) (there’s a karaoke preset in the Nicecast effects bundle!).