If you enjoy listening to Shoutcast stations, including WRAJ Internet Radio and WFTU-AM, AOL has released a new look of the Shoutcast website. I have tried the beta copy before being released to the public last week and I thought that its great that AOL is finally taking big jumps for Shoutcast’s directory.
Not only there is a new website, but there also tons of new features; including a new toolbar to listen to Shoutcast stations, a Facebook application, embeddable widgetsand, and support for devices. Shoutcast already supports on iTunes, Windows Media Player, Real Player, various set-top boxes such as cable and internet, and the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) and Sony Mylo.
The search is expanded as well on the website which allows users to search stations that played artists they search. For example, if we search John Mayer, it will list stations that recently just played or is playing that artist.
WRAJ Internet Radio and WFTU-AM does have a Windows Media stream but unfortuanetly Microsoft does not maintain a directory such as this for their streaming software like Shoutcast.
It was reported by Jenthony that WRAJ Internet Radio’s music guide on wrajradio.com was hacked on Friday. It did come to the company’s attention that there was a security vulnerability in the broadcasting software used for WRAJ Internet Radio to send song data to the website. My friend Maria O’Connell, in charge of handling situations like this one, said to Jenthony “It turns out that the hacker was able to access the computer used to broadcast the station at its headquarters in New York and was able to write the files within the music guide section of the website.”
Last year, WRAJ Internet Radio stopped sending song data to the website because of bandwidth issues. The WRAJ Internet Radio team in California is investigating and reviewing security issues on the site.
If you do see a page that seems to be hacked on my site, please notify me immediately with the timestamp and URL of the page.
If you noticed in my Facebook feed that I have posted notes called “HTTP 404 > Not Found.” It turns out it was one of the problems I had with my site last night, as more than 400 people accessed the site at one time which caused the servers to crash. If you didn’t know, Facebook imports my notes from my blog at anthonyzaragoza.com which sits on wrajradio.com.
And with this trouble, I must bring your attention of a video that I must show you. This video was for a science project that I worked on with Niki and Tonia, it is meant to be posted on the internet to spread the word that Five Towns College is not going green! Don’t worry, I didn’t use my full journalism skills for this video as we had a short time with the video and footage. It has a low quality because of the way YouTube accepts videos. The video took a few days to create because we are getting ready for the future of video editing in my offices! You can watch the video by clicking here. Be warned, what you about to hear is true! I don’t know if we had the best presentation in the class, but our science professor asked us if she can show this to the administration, so I said “sure, why not.”
By demand (I’m assuming), there are now more pictures from I-CON in the Photo Gallery on wrajradio.com. Click here to see them.
Videos are still coming as we launch our new Video Gallery section with Video Podcasting technology by the end of this week.
And this Friday for School, Mary and I are going to put on some of our costumes (Mary will wear her ears and I will wear my Mario Hat and bring the Shrooms) and we will wear it to school!
Besides the troubled RIAA and CRB problems bothering my life with WRAJ, I did attend the IBS conference in New York City last weekend. Friday was the fun day, while Saturday was the boring day.
I got into the conference a few minutes late Friday because of parking issues I had the train station. Later, I got into interesting conversations with several other students from different colleges. I stayed at the conference till 6 until I left to go out to eat. I did stay at the same hotel the conference was held that night, and Saturday night as well.
No one from Five Towns went Saturday, besides my friend Rob. I was in several panels on Saturday, After attending several panels on Saturday, I meet up with my sister Jen and friends, Jim and Fred. We went to Rockefeller Plaza later that night and purchased ‘Sorry’ at Toys ‘R Us in Times Square (Why did we get it, I don’t know). Sunday morning, Jim and I went to Top of the Rock and what a great view!
It’s true, the RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) and CRB (Copyright Royalty Board) is trying to increase the rates for streaming royalties that can force thousands of internet radio broadcasts/stations, including WRAJ Internet Radio, to shut down. As of now, the new rates are not in effect and WRAJ Internet Radio will continue to broadcast until any future notices.
The new rates are crazy, I will be paying DOUBLE the amount of royalty fees than a regular AM/FM station.
If you want to help the internet radio broadcasting community, click here to learn how you can help.
It has happened before, and it has happened again. Another flood has happened in the basement, especially the WRAJ studio area. Luckily, no equipment was damaged, and no one got hurt. The on-air broadcast stream was not affected. The cause was a drain that failed As of now, there is going to be a meeting sometime next week to avoid floods, likely action will be takin.
It’s time for another game bowling. The score sheets are posted, by clicking here.
I will be attending the IBS, the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, conference this March and yet again I will be in a panel at the conference. I am unsure at this time which ones I will be in, but I’ll let you know when the time comes.
The last time I was a panel speaker at a conference was at the Live365 conference back in April 2004 and May 2005 in San Francisco, California. Now those conferences were great, especially when my friends were all drunk at the after party lol!
Well my sixth, I think, semester started last week and for some reason I’m not too comfortable. First, I am not happy with my journalism class, and my schedule is all screwy. I guess that’s life, especially with a good station like mine to operate on the side.
Well, since early this year, we’ve been having bandwidth problems (aka internet problems). The internet has been going slower, causing buffering issues on the station to occur more often then usually, especially when someone else uses the internet on our network. We are currently looking for a seperate ISP line for the station so this won’t happen, mostly this will be replaced by the new Verizon FiOS service.
Not only there is a new website, but there also tons of new features; including a new toolbar to listen to Shoutcast stations, a Facebook application, embeddable widgetsand, and support for devices. Shoutcast already supports on iTunes, Windows Media Player, Real Player, various set-top boxes such as cable and internet, and the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) and Sony Mylo.
