UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6.4 - 6.7 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas UBB Mp3 Radio Jukebox

Imagine, on your UBB site, you have a link to a streaming UBB Mp3 Radio Jukebox, that provide your members the ability to play all your mp3 files live while browsing your board.
Every member can share his own files to the same community, and everyone can make their own playlists (m3u-files) of the music this community shares.
Using streaming software, that downstream your high quality mp3 files on the fly, everyone even with slow modems are able to listen to the music directly without downloading anything first.

This requires:

• A good frontend integrated in UBB
• A frontend that give the users full flexibility in choosing files to play, and to make and edit their own playlists
• some of the best streaming server programs giving the horsepower in the background :-)
• a lot of people posting good ideas and comments to this thread :-)
• and someone good at coding PHP

I have triad out some of the programs already made for this.
I havent found something as good as I want, and neither I have found anything that easily can be integrated in the UBB.
(integration..I think of cookies, memberpermitions...whos online, and that stuff)
A nice pactical interface I have found in AGATHA that is demonstrated HERE
Agatha uses the mpg123 to take care of the downstreaming of the mp3 files.
I havent found that combination so good, but I like agatha's functionality.

Another combination is the MP3SDS that is very good in the way it uses the LAME downstreaming encoder. But the MP3SDS graphic interface and functionality itself is NOT any good, for this purpose at least

As a start of my idee, and to make some of you clear in what I am looking for, I would love to combine something like Agatha's funktionality with the MP3SDS great way of using the LAME.

This is just an idea, and I am shure a lot of you folks can do it even bether.
But to make this have a chance to become something great, I hope a lot of people give constructive comments to this thread.
If it cant be done by you great UBB hack coders, we can use the discussion to define some idea what we want and ask some other place to get it done.

But join this thread and let us all hear if this could be a great hack

[ July 12, 2001 02:21 AM: Message edited by: gaulalauk ]

BTW, if any of you know of better software to make this happen, I will be more than happy to hear about it.
And if that sofware can be integrated i ubb...that would be great.

And dont forget...this can be used as a REAL RADIO too for those very active communities, so please dont consider the idea as just some grownup kiddies useless playground

this is a great idea!

Sounds like a great idea!

well you could use something like shoutcast, after you set this up u could make a link with a icon or something then let your members use winamp to strem the mp3 audio, but members could not pick files or anything but its something u could do if a mod wasent made

[ July 10, 2001 08:18 PM: Message edited by: Dark Vegeta ]

AWESOME IDEA!!!

Who is working on it?

H8t to pour salt on the womb but...

Not everyone has ISDN, dsl or broadband. Most peeps use 56k modem normally connected approx 40-48k. 50 - 52k if they were lucky.

Plus.. for those site that have allow rich media... (flash, asf and or a chat rooms) it's going to slow eveything right down to a 'T'.

Good idea but way too soon... i would w8 a while.... well untill over 50% of users everyone upgrade to at least ISDN (128k).

Almost 50% of users still access the internet via a 14.4 - 33.6 bps modem.

About 35% Uses the common 56k modem

Less than 10% has ISDN

others <9% own servers and have access to ADSL, DSL, T1, T3, etc.

Great spaceship you have there, UltraNEO

I have tested downstreaming of mp3 files with serveral friends of mine on singel ISDN lines.
They had no problems playing mp3 files downstreamed to bitrate 32kbps.

Besides, in my country almost everyone have ISDN, and neither I think it can be an argument that many people still are on 14.4 - 33.6 bps modems.
We cant stop the world to wait for them to catch up...can we?

[ July 11, 2001 09:48 PM: Message edited by: gaulalauk ]

Good Point.

im on a 56k conected it 28k (31k if im lucky) and i have no problem downstreaming mp3 audio

Thats a great idea gaulalauk...anybody working on it?

Well i was actualllt thinkin of intergrating this into my next redesign, i thought of having a little box with select your tune, then a drop down box with all the songs available, then a play button next to it, with a stop button aswell, and next track, then when the song is selected a window pops up with a flash movie that looks like a media player, which has the song loaded into it, when it loads it plays, then the person can select what they wanna listen to on the main page, and it will change in the pop up, that way it doesnt matter where they go on the site the music wont be affected.

Great idea but lots of legalities and bandwidth problems.

If I was able to code this thing, I would have done it, without offering ONE SINGLE thougth, neither on copyright issues or bandwith problems.

I cant think of one single reason to let these two issues stop an intelligent and talented coder from making one of the best and most popular hacks ever made for the UBB

I would really love this hack if it ever got done. It sounds like a great idea! Keep up the good work ^_^.

that would be quality mate! that would be really cool great idea!

some new news
about this awersome hack ?

www.planetplastica.com has a broadcast window with live mp3s playing already. go to planetplastica.com and hit "broadcast" in the top nav to see what i mean.

ohh ok
thx