GOON RADIO: GBS-FM is back on the air

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newsomnuke: Feb 25, 2007

Clarence Boddicker posted:

what I don't get is, theres a forum at g2 and all these posts (about the station!!!) could go inside of it, but instead it gets used like, once per week to announce a movie is happening.

The forums is very bare-bones at the moment, and until it gets a facelift I suspect it's going to remain mostly unused. We don't even have polls for power hour.

# ? Jan 18, 2011 06:32

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 18:32

Kilonum: Sep 30, 2002; You know where you are? You're in the suburbs, baby. You're gonna drive.

It's too loving clunky and user unfriendly.

plus I liked having the forums in a separate tab on G1 and this is just... painful.

# ? Jan 18, 2011 06:43

DaWolfey: Oct 25, 2003; College Slice

Clarence Boddicker posted:

announce a movie is happening.

Next Mondays is going to be a doozy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vey_jxgduvU

# ? Jan 18, 2011 09:29

Test Pilot Monkey: Apr 27, 2003; I've seen Westerns, I know how to speak cowboy.

newsomnuke posted:

The forums is very bare-bones at the moment, and until it gets a facelift I suspect it's going to remain mostly unused. We don't even have polls for power hour.

So how's development going :haw:

# ? Jan 18, 2011 09:42

Nihiliste: Oct 23, 2005; The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

newsomnuke posted:

The forums is very bare-bones at the moment, and until it gets a facelift I suspect it's going to remain mostly unused. We don't even have polls for power hour.

I think that Peachstapler is the guy jonesing for Power Hours, really.

# ? Jan 18, 2011 14:21

Dominus Vobiscum: Sep 2, 2004; Our motives are multiple, our desires complex.; Fallen Rib

Nihiliste posted:

I think that Peachstapler is the guy jonesing for Power Hours, really.

The only Power Hour we need is the weekly Queen Power Hour.

# ? Jan 18, 2011 15:18

Default Settings: May 29, 2001; Keep your 'lectric eye on me, babe

Biweekly, on odd weeks it's Bowie.

# ? Jan 18, 2011 15:30

Fuschia tude: Dec 26, 2004; THUNDERDOME LOSER 2019

Nihiliste posted:

I think that Peachstapler is the guy jonesing for Power Hours, really.

As long as the system supports Condorcet voting I'm fine with it.

# ? Jan 18, 2011 15:39

Nihiliste: Oct 23, 2005; The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Fuschia tude posted:

As long as the system supports Condorcet voting I'm fine with it.

I like the idea of being able to pick top two or three choices to get a solid sense of what people really want to hear.

# ? Jan 18, 2011 16:05

newsomnuke: Feb 25, 2007

Test Pilot Monkey posted:

So how's development going

I did some more but then stopped because I wanted to play a video game!

# ? Jan 18, 2011 16:09

Test Pilot Monkey: Apr 27, 2003; I've seen Westerns, I know how to speak cowboy.

newsomnuke posted:

I did some more but then stopped because I wanted to play a video game!

If it's Minecraft we may never see any progress.

# ? Jan 18, 2011 17:00

Kilonum: Sep 30, 2002; You know where you are? You're in the suburbs, baby. You're gonna drive.

Test Pilot Monkey posted:

If it's Minecraft we may never see any progress.

worse.

It's WoW.

# ? Jan 19, 2011 03:04

newsomnuke: Feb 25, 2007

Actually it was neither.

# ? Jan 19, 2011 11:01

Nihiliste: Oct 23, 2005; The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

newsomnuke posted:

Actually it was neither.

Well spill, man!

# ? Jan 19, 2011 14:38

Test Pilot Monkey: Apr 27, 2003; I've seen Westerns, I know how to speak cowboy.

Is there a Joanna Newsom dating sim?

# ? Jan 19, 2011 15:41

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Test Pilot Monkey posted:

Is there a Joanna Newsom dating sim?

Yes, but only Andy Samberg gets to play.

# ? Jan 19, 2011 17:21

Sywert of Thieves: Nov 7, 2005; The pirate code is really more of a guideline, than actual rules.

Clarence Boddicker posted:

what I don't get is, theres a forum at g2 and all these posts (about the station!!!) could go inside of it, but instead it gets used like, once per week to announce a movie is happening.

And we put that in the chatroom topic as well. :v:

Nice avatar, newsomnuke. :parrot:

# ? Jan 19, 2011 19:13

StevePerry: Sep 5, 2003; don't stop believin

Nihiliste posted:

I think that Peachstapler is the guy jonesing for Power Hours, really.

That vaguely sounds like you're saying I am the only person who wants this. Power Hour was a phenomenal democratic event that drew people back to the station (and forums), working together via an honor system to add 30-40 songs in a row of a particular artist. And it happened every week for over four years, without fail, even on Christmas (although it was sort of beat on the holidays). The new incarnation of the station really needs poll functionality (and editing) before I can do anything like g1. I can't control voting off-site; it opens up the possibility of multiple registrations for a single user, which would be an easy way to tip the polls in favor of a particular artist. It's supposed to be for fun, after all, so why leave the door open for someone to ruin it? It will always happen (the latest example, Christina Carmi cockblocking every Thursday at 1-minute past the hour by adding the Apologetix).

You're free to disprove the above, but what I said has already been posted months ago in the Power Hour sub-forum, so if you (or anyone) wants to go there and pour a tall glass of suggestion for me, I am all ears. That said, PH was something I enjoyed doing and yes, I'd gladly do it again. And I'm sure we'd have people lining back up to participate (and maybe flood those little green forums with some life).

# ? Jan 20, 2011 02:25

Talas: Aug 27, 2005

I really enjoyed the Power Hours, especially those I was expecting to hate but didn't. Like the Skinny Puppy PH, that was something else.

# ? Jan 20, 2011 03:15

TANZENTURTLE: Oct 15, 2009; Pikachuuuuu

Couldnt find anywhere this was asked or explained. What's the tax to your internet allowance listening to something like this?

# ? Jan 20, 2011 05:52

Kilonum: Sep 30, 2002; You know where you are? You're in the suburbs, baby. You're gonna drive.

It's a 128kbps stream, so 56.25MB per hour

EDIT:

Kilonum fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Jan 20, 2011

# ? Jan 20, 2011 07:09

Nihiliste: Oct 23, 2005; The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

TANZENTURTLE posted:

Couldnt find anywhere this was asked or explained. What's the tax to your internet allowance listening to something like this?

It streams at about 128 Kbps, I believe, so you can extrapolate from there. That's 460,800 kilobits per hour.

# ? Jan 20, 2011 17:21

Jonnty: Aug 2, 2007; The enemy has become a flaming star!

Nihiliste posted:

It streams at about 128 Kbps, I believe, so you can extrapolate from there. That's 460,800 kilobits per hour.

Google does some nice conversions. http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...77eda9bd6a22404

# ? Jan 20, 2011 17:59

Fuschia tude: Dec 26, 2004; THUNDERDOME LOSER 2019

I love spontaneous organization.

# ? Jan 23, 2011 19:52

DaWolfey: Oct 25, 2003; College Slice

We're going offline briefly for a spot of maintenance.

Back shortly!

# ? Jan 23, 2011 21:55

Scuttle_SE: Jun 2, 2005; I like mammaries; Pillbug

DaWolfey posted:

We're going offline briefly for a spot of maintenance.

Back shortly!

Already back, I don't think anything actually got interrupted... Just had to move a disk around

# ? Jan 23, 2011 22:21

Nihiliste: Oct 23, 2005; The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Scuttle_SE posted:

Already back, I don't think anything actually got interrupted... Just had to move a disk around

Is there more space available now? Meant to ask that earlier.

# ? Jan 26, 2011 16:50

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Fuschia tude posted:

I love spontaneous organization.

NUMLOCK!

# ? Jan 26, 2011 17:19

Scuttle_SE: Jun 2, 2005; I like mammaries; Pillbug

Nihiliste posted:

Is there more space available now? Meant to ask that earlier.

Don't worry about the space, I'll add more disk if neccesary

# ? Jan 26, 2011 18:15

Nihiliste: Oct 23, 2005; The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Scuttle_SE posted:

Don't worry about the space, I'll add more disk if neccesary

I'm perpetually amazed at how much storage space Swedes have to throw around.

# ? Jan 31, 2011 14:20

Dominus Vobiscum: Sep 2, 2004; Our motives are multiple, our desires complex.; Fallen Rib

Nihiliste posted:

I'm perpetually amazed at how much storage space Swedes have to throw around.

Storage space is dirt cheap these days. You should still be surprised by the amount of bandwidth Swedes have to throw around.

# ? Jan 31, 2011 16:02

varl: Feb 11, 2007; . . .

I found an (obvious) workaround for playing GBS-FM with Boxee (if you don't care about having App button for it, or if you are using the Boxee Box).

I downloaded http://gbs.fm:8080/listen.pls and put it in my music folder on my computer serving stuff to the Boxee Box.

Through the "Files" menu option you just select "Browse" and browse to the location where you saved listen.pls and play it from there.

I do not know if the pls-file shows up under the "Music" section since my Boxee is still syncing. I'll post an update when it's done.

varl fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Feb 3, 2011

# ? Feb 3, 2011 20:44