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Club-Hating DJ Seeks Irregular M3U Streaming Service For Live Mix Sessions

beaucoupkevin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:30:41 -0800

Is there any provider that gives you streaming server short-term/irregular rentals for an M3U stream? I'm using Nicecast on my Mac in connection with Traktor and would like to do a thrice-monthly mix session type thing with my records. The companies I've looked at online have all assumed I wanted to constantly broadcast instead of just offering one-off live events or the like. Has anyone in the green set up such a thing or know of a service? I'd gladly pay $10-$20 for a 2-hour session for 100 listeners or so at 128kbps, but I really don't want to spend $400 a month to offer it constantly.

How do I nicely organize my library of 80 gigs of MP3s?

Nelson — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:07:05 -0800

How do I nicely organize my library of 80 gigs of MP3s? My goal is to get my new Sonos system working nicely and presenting a tidy library of music. Ideally with cover art. It'd also be nice if iTunes would work reasonably well with my music collection, but iTunes is so awful I'm willing to write it off.

I've got 80 gigs of MP3s I've accumulated over the last ten years. They're all organized neatly in directories like "Genre / Artist / Album Name / 01 TrackName.mp3". The m3u tags, though, are a mess, with lots of variations and mistakes. And I have no cover art.

For years I've played my music in WinAmp or via a Squeezebox by just walking my nicely organized directory hierarchy. But newer music software seems to prefer to use m3u tags and categorize things by Artist, Genre, etc. And since my m3u tags are a mess, the resulting catalog is a mess. I can still play stuff via Sonos by walking a directory hierarchy, but it doesn't work very well and I feel like I'm missing out.

I've seen various software products that try to scan your mp3 files and try to correct m3u tags, remove duplicates, download cover art, etc. Do any of the Windows apps work well? Alternately, I still have most of the CDs in a box somewhere. Should I just send them all to a ripping service?

How do I send all MP3 links on a webpage to Winamp?

waxpancake — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:51:09 -0800

How do I send all MP3 links on a web page to Winamp (or, I suppose, any audio player)? I've had several promising options, but they're all dead ends. The Launchy extension lets you send a single link to any application, but not multiple links. Alf Eaton's MP3 to M3U bookmarklet works wonderfully on public websites, but the site I'm using requires authentication to view pages. Please help! This has been bugging me for ages.

Putting the

FreezBoy — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:50:40 -0800

Are there any web-based Playlist Editors? I'd like to export my song library in XML, put it on the web, and have friends pick songs for a playlist and save it. I'm not picky about output - XML or m3u would be nice, but I'd take text. Any ideas, or will I have to build it myself?

Easier way to stream MP3 files?

Cosine — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:26:50 -0800

I'm trying to setup Firefox to stream MP3 files from my webserver rather than download them first. I know about creating an .m3u file with a link to the mp3 to do this but does anyone know an easier way, I'm not going to create .m3u files for 90,000 songs.