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Bote's Streaming Audio Page

Updated 2009.12.23

Bote's Mixer Board, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Bote's Wild Feed, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Bote's Mobile Feed, anywhere

What You Need To Listen

WinAmp

You should listen to these feeds using WinAmp, as that does the best job that I have found. It is free. It is widely used. Shoutcast was written by the same people as WinAmp so they were made for each other. There are numerous plug-ins and skins for it to enhance your enjoyment of it.

Here is a WinAmp equalizer file that will make the audio a little easier to listen to. It rolls off the highs and the bass a little bit for better communications-grade audio.

Tabletop Internet Radio

BUY ME and start listening!

You can buy a tabletop alarm clock-radio that receives Internet streams as well as AM and FM broadcasts. It can even play mp3 files off of a USB thumb drive. The sound is rich and full from such a small package, of course that also depends on the source.

The Infinite Radio 200 is sold under both the Acoustic Research and RCA brand names, so you might see model ARIR200 or RIR200 because of that. It's not perfect, but it's neat being able to "tune in" to an Internet radio station without tying up a computer to do it. It has 6 preset buttons across the top that save stations for each listening mode. It also allows you to go to their web site to browse thousands of online radio streams and store favorites on their web portal so that you can pick them quickly from a list on the radio screen. You can also search by location or by genre from music and talk radio stations. It's pretty cool.

The ARIR200 is great for listening to Icecast and Shoutcast streams because it scrolls the current selection across the screen, although on live feeds the name tag is not synchronized with the audio that matches it. I'm trying to get them to fix that.

You can order an ARIR200 from Amazon.com for about $90 as of this writing, which is the top of my comfort range. Still, I'm glad I bought this Internet radio because it is too useful to be without now, really.

Other Players

Windows Media Player will work, but you must sell your soul to Bill Gates in order to use it. Apple's iTunes also works on mp3 streams, but can be inscrutable in its operation. VLC is freeware and can be buggy, but has been improving in recent times.

Bote's Mixer Board

Status: * ONLINE *

Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A.

Trackstreamer status blog

Listen to Bote's Mixer Board Fort Lauderdale Streaming Scanner Feed — Icecast server mount point /botemixer

The fully qualified uri to Bote's Mixer Board is
http://colostreaming.com:8000/botemixer.m3u

This feed will be up full-time.

Program

Less chatty.

Normal program audio includes fire scanner traffic from Fort Lauderdale fire department, Pompano Beach fire, Broward County fire west radio, and Deerfield Beach fire.

If there is a noteworthy fire or police incident and I am here to control the scanner I will focus on that as warranted. Since Broward fire shares tactical channels A, B, and C among all their districts you might hear working incidents dispatched on other channels. The Wild Feed will have those dispatch channels.

Hardware

Radios: BC780 scanner for the Fort Lauderdale area Mixer Board feed.

Audio: A Mackie 1202 mixer board allows me to feed scanner and other audio into the streaming computer. So you never know when I might pipe in some other audio besides the scanner audio. Ya been told!

Software

The streaming software on my end is Simplecast. It is simple to set up and it works, which is more than I can say of that buggy and finicky Shoutcast plug-in for WinAmp. The monaural audio streams at 16kbits/sec with a sample rate of 11025 samples/sec. It sounds pretty good.

The server is Icecast version 2.3.2 running on a linux box at a well-connected co-location facility in Dallas, Texas.

Bote's Wild Feed

Status: * ONLINE *

Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A.

Trackstreamer status blog

Listen to Bote's Wild Feed — Icecast server mount point /botewild

The fully qualified uri to Bote's Wild Feed is
http://colostreaming.com:8000/botewild.m3u

Program

More chatty.

Normal program audio includes Fort Lauderdale fire-rescue and police, all Broward County fire-rescue dispatch and tactical channels, as well as Broward Sheriff's Office-Oakland Park. You might even hear baseball, music, me singing, or whatever wack stuff I pot up on my mixer board that feeds this streaming machine. This programming is *NOT* guaranteed work-safe; you've been told.

If there is a noteworthy fire or police incident and I am here to control the scanner I will focus on that as warranted.

Hardware

Radios: BCD996T scanner.

Audio: A Mackie 1202 mixer board allows me to feed scanner and other audio into the streaming computer. So you never know when I might pipe in some other audio besides the scanner audio. Ya been told!

Software

The streaming software on my end is ScannerCast, a FREE feed encoder from K1PGV. The monaural audio streams at 16kbits/sec with a sample rate of 22050 samples/sec. It sounds pretty good for communications quality audio.

The server is Icecast version 2.3.2 running on a linux box at a well-connected co-location facility in Dallas, Texas.

Bote's Mobile Feed

Status: * offline *

Location: Anytown, U.S.A.

Trackstreamer status blog

Listen to Bote's Mobile Streaming Scanner Feed — Icecast server mount point /botemobile

Program

I only operate this mobile feed on road trips where there will be something interesting to hear.

This feed has whatever my mobile scanner is receiving, usually railroad traffic, but could be public safety, ham radio, aircraft, or Space Shuttle audio. Check the Trackstreamer blog for the latest.

Hardware

Radios: BCD996T scanner.

Audio: HPQ laptop computer, SoundBlaster X-Fi USB audio input, and air card for mobile data access.

Software

The streaming software on my end is ScannerCast, a FREE feed encoder from K1PGV. The monaural audio streams at 16kbits/sec with a sample rate of 22050 samples/sec. It sounds pretty good for communications quality audio.

The server is Icecast version 2.3.2 running on a linux box at a well-connected co-location facility in Dallas, Texas.

Happy monitoring!


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