We are deep into the winter season and we have a really warm and dry spell of weather that has people outside of the house doing outside chores and activities that we normally don't in the Winter so I have music too match.

 I have setup sounds for the next several hours into the early evening with various genres. I will break in periodically however and make changes as I feel the vibe of what is coming.

You can of course continue as well to make requests during this time by clicking on the "Make Request and Dedications" link then sorting through the thousand of songs on the site and clicking the "Request" next to the song.

This Winter Warm Spell is brought to you by Snakeice's "House of Beats"

I'm wading in the beginning stages of setting loose a flow of mellow notes down the internet stream from my vantage point here in Sactown. Since this unusually warm and dry winter isn't providing any flows you can always come here and play in the notes.

Well time to get some shut eye staying up late too many nights in a row so I'm off to the bed not early but for me ....yes. More positive changes to come!

Performing some test on the music stream to try and squeeze a few extras out!

-             http://dhoytt.com:8000/32kbps

-          http://dhoytt.com:8000/128kbps

-          http://dhoytt.com:8000/160kbps

-          http://dhoytt.com:8000/320kbps

You can still access the streams with the above but you must type or paste that into a media player such as Winamp or VLC.

To access via a browser just to get the link up you would use the following format or also place in your media player of choice:

 

-          For 32kbps:

o   http://dhoytt.com:8000/listen.pls?sid=1

-          For 128kbps:

o   http://dhoytt.com:8000/listen.pls?sid=2

-          For 160kbps:

o   http://dhoytt.com:8000/listen.pls?sid=3

-          For 320kbps:

o   http://dhoytt.com:8000/listen.pls?sid=4


The Listen Links have been modified to work on my website as well just click the appropriate link and it will open up a file that will activate your preferred media player in your OS or it will give you the opportunity to delegate your favorite media player.  

You may need to go into your browser and tell it how to handle the content type, I'll have more detailed information on this later.




The three embedded Flash Player Links at the top work just fine by clicking on the bit rate your choose to stream at.

Well all its time to upgrade the radio stream finally to Shoutcast DNAS version 2. There are some advantages to moving to the Shoutcast DNAS version 2 but the main one you will notice as listeners will be that instead of pointing to a different port for different bit rates for my stream you will point to just one port and then tell it what stream to listen for.

I have currently tested out the configuration already on my test server in private mode and everything seems to be working just great as far as the streaming goes. I now have to get the authorization key from Shoutcast to run this new stream publicly and have it listed from my test server and then I will be moving it to my live production server tonight. I will also have a few links to update on my web site and then everything will be set.

To connect to the new stream the format will be the following:

-          http://dhoytt.com:8000/32kbps

-          http://dhoytt.com:8000/128kbps

-          http://dhoytt.com:8000/160kbps

-          http://dhoytt.com:8000/320kbps

 

I apologize for this brief interruption but I'll be up and streaming again soon!

Very late night "Quiet Storm" and you are in the center of it just as we are in the middle of our first 2012 storm here in Northern California.

Setting it up to be real wild while I work out!! I'm going to be tuning in using mobile Winamp app on m android while at the gym. You benefit by hearing this good music with me regardless of our activity!!

The "House of Beats" is thumping out Big Wild A$$ Beatz into the Internet stratosphere going way back on this Wednesday evening. The madness has already begun all you have to do is tune in.

Deep into the night sliding into that momentary moist night and then right to sleep with the Snakeice Hot Toddy mix better known as the slow grind!