Well, the flash drive experiments are pretty much over by now. It Just Works™, which I am very happy with. 🥰
Also, no time to waste. You need to listen to this week’s Favourite of the Week™: “High Wire” by Roman Messer, ThoBa, and Veronica Bravo! No delaying!
Don’t believe me? You shouldn’t! Trust your own taste in music!
The next show will be on Wednesday, August 28, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
Download and Playlist →The experiments are still not done! Today’s experiment: can I play from and record to the same flash drive at the same time? Preliminary results say: yes, I can!
That is pretty great because it changes my after-show workflow in a way that allows to move the DJ table out of the way before uploading the show; previously everything would stay where it was until I finished encoding the show from the USB drive the player exposes. Now I can simply rip out the flash drive and put the player away!
But that is not all that is awesome, we also had a bunch of great tracks tonight! “Orion” by Driftmoon & Hel:sløwed was great, “Syndicate” by Renegade System was great, Alan Morris’s remix of Robert Nickon’s “Delyo’s Voyage” was great, and the Novakaine remix of “Never End” by Yoji Biomehanika was — you guessed it — great!
However, greatest of all (today) was this track: “Love Again Like That” by Miyuki and Tara Louise, remixed by Sam Laxton! ❤️
Just do me a favour, listen to the show, and if you find a track that you think is pretty great, tell me about it in the comments. 🙂
The next show will be on Wednesday, August 21, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
Download and Playlist →More experimenting: not only did I play today’s show from a flash drive, I also recorded the show to a flash drive; to a second flash drive, nonetheless! And from what I can tell so far, everything has worked absolutely flawlessly, which actually saves me a good deal of work of every week, because connecting the player to the MacBook is almost infinitely more trouble than just putting stuff on a flash drive, which takes mere seconds and doesn’t even require a USB cable. Technology! ❤️
And again, the Stream Deck worked great. Really glad I finally got that, really mad that it took me so long. 😄
Anyway, we had a bunch of cool tracks, like “Venezia” by Alessandra Roncone, “Emotion FM” by Craig Connelly, and The Favourite of the Week™: “Timelapse” by John O’Callaghan (disguised as Joint Operations Centre), remixed by Sean Tyas (disguised as abstrkt). 🔥
But once again, there’s so much more music to listen to, don’t let my picks keep you from listening to all the tracks, right here.
The next show will be on Wednesday, August 14, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
Download and Playlist →I did another experiment today: I played the show from a flash drive. Even though syncing is blazingly fast, now that I installed an SSD in the player, it is still easier to move a flash drive from the USB hub to the player than it is to get out a cable, attach it, way for the player to boot into USB host mode, transfer files, then basically reboot the player. Next week I’m going to try and record the show on the flash drive as well; a backup recording with REAPER will be available.
The Stream Deck was also fantastic again. That investment really paid off fast!
Short nod to this week’s Favourite of the Week™, the Bogdan Vix remix of “If You Only Knew” by Amber Revival and Hel:sløwed!
There’s more tracks you could listen to, whenever you want!
The next show will be on Wednesday, August 7, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
Download and Playlist →So, first show with the Stream Deck! Did you notice all four light effects I kept triggering throughout the show? (Did you even spot the Stream Deck in its inconspicuous location, right next to the player’s screen, with the same angle, even, so it could blend in perfectly? 😄)
I really liked having it there, especially for switching scenes, like when the cat shows up, or when it leaves, or when it’s time to end the stream. For all those things I had to turn around and use the PC behind me which totally destroyed my flow.
I still need to integrate it with my overlay, I’m still planning to build in a playlist feature and then trigger the next track from the Stream Deck, so I don’t have to mess around with the browser for that anymore, either.
Alright, so, let’s talk music! What did we have tonight? New tracks by Alex M.O.R.P.H. and Luminn, John Askew, David Forbes and Mark Sherry, Signum and Superstrings, Cold Blue, Alan Morris and Macro Cera, and Ashley Wallbridge and C-Systems. And the Favourite of the Week™ is the 2024 Rework for “Don’t Give a Fuck” by Stoneface & Terminal.
But I’m sure you can find more tracks that you like if you listen to the show again, so: do it!
The next show will be on Wednesday, July 31, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
Download and Playlist →Things will be getting exciting in the next couple of weeks! On Friday I will be picking up a Stream Deck from some random person, and I want to use it to have more direct control over my stream and don’t have to turn around towards the PC screen all the time. I am also already thinking about what else I may be able to do with it… if you have any suggestions, I’m all ear!
I already programmed a couple of buttons in the Companion app but that work is still far from finished; it is amazing, how quickly you can get results with it. If you need to automate stuff in your home and have control surfaces (such as the Stream Deck, or a MIDI keyboard/controller, or random other USB input devices, or a browser), take a look at it.
Okay, I have to get back to programming buttons, have a Favourite of the Week™:
There’s more good tracks in this show, just listen for yourself!
The next show will be on Wednesday, July 24, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
Download and Playlist →June has begun, we’re getting dangerously close to summer (which means that somewhere around this time some of my allergies should flare up for a month or so), the encoding machine doesn’t give a single fuck, fans are great.
One of the things I am allergic to is cats, actually. Nevertheless The Cat™ has on this day blessed us with her presence, and we are thankful for it. We have also been blessed with good music, and I would like to bestow a special blessing upon this week’s Favourite of the Week:
Get blessed right here. Touch the screen, touch the screen!
The next show will be on Wednesday, June 12, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
Download and Playlist →Well, I guess the new machine is satisfied with the new fan settings from a week ago, it hasn’t dropped a single frame during the show. Splendid!
Also, pretty much nobody has said a word during the show. All the chat fit on a single screen! I’m so proud of you, my lurkers! ❤️ 😂
We did have a couple of cool new tracks today, such as RAM’s remix of “Walk the Edge” by Alex M.O.R.P.H., or “Lore” by David Broaders, or The Favourite of the Week™: “Paladir” by Kyau & Albert!
Continue your lurking here:
The next show will be on Wednesday, June 5, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
Download and Playlist →All the playing around with the fan settings that I did over the weekend apparently paid off. I test-streamed for several days (not lying here, the machine was encoding and streaming stuff for over 80 hours) without a single problem. The fans are barely noticable, and the machine itself doesn’t even get warm. Definitely an improvement! I’m more looking forward to the summer now; today it was raining and rather cold, as soon as the sun shines directly on the machine we can really put the fans to the test! 😄
Anyway, there also was a show! And we did have a couple of nice new tracks today, like “Remember the Future” by Bryan Kearney and Spektre, or “Way to Heaven” by Max Freegrant and Slow Fish (great name!). The Favourite of the Week™ is this one, though: “Starshine” by Aligash!
More cool tracks are hidden right behind the button.
The next show will be on Wednesday, May 29, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
Download and Playlist →Well, that was a hot mess of a show, and literally so. The encoding machine got so warm that it started refusing to do anything related to encoding which for an encoding machine is not a good look!
Good thing I bought a small fan a couple weeks back, so I was able to point something at the encoding machine which made it get back to work, for a while at least. Of course at some point its batteries were empty, and of course it cannot work and charge at the same time, and so began an endless cycle of me turning the thing on, it cooling the system for a bit until its battery ran out, me not noticing for a while during which the fan could charge, and then me finally noticing and turning it back on.
Just now after the show I went into the machine’s BIOS and fiddled with some fan settings which immediately made the fans go wild but OBS was able to display the shaders at a smooth 60 fps. I’ll give that more spin over the weekend and maybe I’ll even disassemble the thing once, to take a look inside and see if I notice anything. What would probably help would be to re-seat the heat sink on the CPU, with new thermal paste and everything, but it’s hard to put into words how much I do not want to do that. 😄
Anyway, in addition to almost-burning CPUs we also had a bunch of 🔥 tracks tonight! I absolutely recommend listening to the show again, and I totally need you to listen to my Favourite of the Week™: John Askew and Shelby Merry – “Steady & Stronger!”
The rest of the show was also pretty cool, and you can verify that here:
The next show will be on Wednesday, May 22, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
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