DaveInVA wrote:A-okay here this morning, too. Thanks, Bill, for all you do. Have a great day, RP'ers.

 michaelgmitchell wrote: 
Whatever was happening with Octoshape yesterday morning and afternoon cleared up for me by late afternoon and its still working great this morning...

 BillG wrote: 
About 8 hours before this changeover, I had set up to rip thirty or so hours of RP to listen in my car, so I have now listened to eight hours of the intermittently sputtering encoder, and now that I have listened to a couple of hours of the new one on the "Unknown Server" I can say confidently "That DID take care of the problems!

 schtan wrote: 
You can email those to me. I'll see what I can do about getting the file-checking script to be a little less finicky.

thanks
-bg

See !

 michaelgmitchell wrote: 
     How's this ?

Octoshape works fine for me here and now. Forum pages not so good !
Can not reply for one thing!

 DaveInVA wrote:Sorry to report the same here in the northeast. 

Don't know if its just me but the Octoshape has been doing the buffer under-run thing again today. This morning it did it occasionally but its gotten worse as the day goes on sometimes doing it multiple times a song now....

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
i get the same thing trying to upload tom petty superhighway mp3's ...

 BillG wrote: 
No not iTunes, I did buy the tunes from an online music seller - 7digital.com. They seem to be high quality digital files. I used that company before and never had a problem.

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
Was it created by iTunes?  iTunes creates mp3 files with non-standard headers (& inferior audio quality) that are often rejected by our file-checking script.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
No, it's not VBR. It has a bit rate of 320 with an audio sample rate of 44 kHz.

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
is it a variable bitrate?

I'm getting this message when I try to upload a file to the LRC:

Your upload doesn't appear to be an MP3 file. Double-check the file name as it needs to end in ".mp3".

However the file is definitely an mp3 file and it ends in .mp3

 HazzeSwede wrote:'Whinyboy' reports likewise. That's weird. But it sounds crystal-clear this evening in the East. Thanks, Bill.

 rosedraws wrote: 
With Windows XP I needed first to install the Octoshape Client.  I have then set it to use my default player (Foobar2000) and not to run on computer start up.  I have then created a desktop shortcut with the location URL "octoshape:PARADISE.stream1_mp3" .

On my system this starts up Octoshape, then starts up Foobar2000 and then plays the RP stream.  Song title and artist displayed.

I used to not bother with Octoshape as it was such a faf to open up Octoshape, wait for my browser to open and display the choice of feeds and start playing.

I was disappointed not to be able to google a straight forward solution so now I have found one I have put it here:
http://blog1.dhsound.co.uk/blog/_archives/2009/11/2/4369343.html and google has indeed found it.

This one click solution is great and sounds fine too.  Does it save Bill any money?  I don't know but I hope so.

 BillG wrote: 
Thanks Bill,

That seems to have sorted it.

 BillG wrote: 
Clicking the link on the home page... does nothing?  Did it launch something in iTunes?  What is supposed to happen?

It's working for me... (wonderfully, I might add) I just am lobbying to have it explained better.  And if I know, I could answer folks in the forums who ask.

 BillG wrote: 
(After some coffee) I figured that out this morning ;-)