PACIFIC SEAFARER'S NET PODCAST MP3 AUDIO FILES


The net is posting mp3 files of recent past net sessions. They are available for anyone who wishes to download them. For a 6 boat session, they have been averaging about 3 Mb per night, so if there were 12 boats, it might be a 5 or 6 Mb file.

The URL is http://www.pacsea.org/audio.

You may download them to your favorite folder on your computer and play them on any mp3 player. Also, if you'd like to see what my computer screen looks like with the shoutcast.com server, mp3 streamripper, and EtherApe network monitor running on my laptop, you will see a file called screenshot.jpg in the pacsea.org/audio directory.

In the screenshot, the network monitor and server terminal screen shows 5 listeners connected, one of them being the streamripper program in the same laptop, and it is the 68.6.31.23 connection. Even though it looks like a separate computer on the network monitor, it is actually in the same machine which is my wireless laptop housing the server, streamripper and network monitor. The laptop in the network monitor is 192.168.0.100, and the source computer shows as "BUZZ". BUZZ is a 200mhz Windows 98 Gateway machine running a Nullsoft Winamp DSP plugin for mp3 streaming. It sends the stream over my local in-house network to my wireless laptop. BUZZ is the machine with the soundcard that my radio audio output is feeding into. BUZZ is connected to the network by ethernet cable to a D-Link wireless router that is also connected to a cable modem. The router is 192.168.0.220 in the network monitor screen. The setup was actually fabricated for slow scan television, but was also just right for internet audio streaming. The other 4 listener connections seen on the network monitor window are net listeners outside on the internet.

The laptop is a Debian Linux 800mhz Sony Vaio laptop with a D-Link DWL-G650 wireless network card. The Shoutcast server is a linux command line mp3 streaming server supplied free by Nullsoft. The mp3 ripping program is a command line program called "Streamripper". All software on this laptop is open source free software including the operating system.