IDEA - Building a retro radio station
So, basically, I have been playing with a new CMS recently and it had a really annoying radio widget shoved in a corner playing outdated music. Like most developers, I am quite lazy, so instead of removing the code, I just kept pausing it in the hope it would go away.
This has got me thinking, would there be room for a retro-based online radio station? A service which lets users from a range of hotels pick what song they want on next.
I have worked in internet radio for over a year as Technical Manager for a community station in addition to doing Audio Production work for FM stations (Jingles, adverts, backing tracks that sort of thing).
So simple question: Would you use a radio player specifically for retro users?
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That would definately be used by many retros if it's:
1. Easily accessible and easily added to their CMS
2. No mentioning of ANY other retro hotel names (People might be worried about advertising)
3. Possibly add some retro news as well with updates, upgrades, developments, etc.
I think not only retros would use it, but if you made a site then lots of people would check it out.
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Sounds like a good idea but you must consider what would be needed to run this 'retro radio station'. If you're talking about a 24/7 radio station dedicated to hotels/roleplays then you may have to find people in the retro scene with experience in DJ hosting (like yourself) from various countries. The radio's DJs would need to be given a specific time through the week for when it's their time to DJ. The best solution would probably be a timetable showing which DJ is on at what time & day. The fact that the radio would also have a request system means that the listeners get to listen to the music that they want to listen to. Personally, I like the idea of a retro based radio station. It's different to the annoying free embedded radios that play the same music over and over.
Quick question, who is going to pay for this? Yourself? Because I doubt many people would actually contribute financially towards this.
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Sounds like a good idea but you must consider what would be needed to run this 'retro radio station'. If you're talking about a 24/7 radio station dedicated to hotels/roleplays then you may have to find people in the retro scene with experience in DJ hosting (like yourself) from various countries. The radio's DJs would need to be given a specific time through the week for when it's their time to DJ. The best solution would probably be a timetable showing which DJ is on at what time & day. The fact that the radio would also have a request system means that the listeners get to listen to the music that they want to listen to. Personally, I like the idea of a retro based radio station. It's different to the annoying free embedded radios that play the same music over and over.
Quick question, who is going to pay for this? Yourself? Because I doubt many people would actually contribute financially towards this.
Sites like Habbox used to be full of people who wanted to DJ, I know from experience, everybody wants their time in the spotlight, so hopefully finding presenters wouldn't be a problem. Getting a 24/7 coverage shouldn't be a problem either, I know a now dead co-worker coded a nice little automated music player for when the station I work is offline (during nights) - This could be used when nobody can cover a show, if that's too challenging I'll use other methods.
I am living at home with parents, and I'm on quite high money for my age so I am happy to pay for a few servers - I might have a nice donations box but I'll make it optional.
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1. Easily accessible and easily added to their CMS
2. No mentioning of ANY other retro hotel names (People might be worried about advertising)
3. Possibly add some retro news as well with updates, upgrades, developments, etc.
I think not only retros would use it, but if you made a site then lots of people would check it out.
1 - I can make it a nice little widget that'll fit nicely into any realistically themed CMS
2 - I was thinking that myself, was considering the idea of doing like a hotel wide room of the week competition or something like that though? Not sure how people would feel about that
3 - Yeah easily, might do that as a once a week/month thing so it doesn't become too technical for every day users
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I am 100% in support of this if the following rules are enforced.
*No favouritism for specific hotels
*A set standard (no n00b dj's using a built in laptop mic)
Note: And please PM me if you go through with this or need any help!
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I got a radio i always can upgrade so more people can listen, more GB songs. It have AutoDJ (CloudDJ) and Live DJ. If no Live DJ is on = AutoDJ start playing songs.
Tell me if you need it. I can also get cheap hosting websites :P
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I've been actively involved in a few official Habbo fansites with quite senior roles at each of them, I am a huge fan of radio and I'd love to help out - I'm a web designer and developer so would gladly help out.
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Like already stated, this would be great as long as it wouldn't become an advertisement radio and biased to any hotels. You should run it like a hotel with staff though. Set time slots. You could advertise openings for DJ slots.
If you want to discuss this, I'm open to helping out with it. Please private message me.
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Wreckless
Like already stated, this would be great as long as it wouldn't become an advertisement radio and biased to any hotels. You should run it like a hotel with staff though. Set time slots. You could advertise openings for DJ slots.
If you want to discuss this, I'm open to helping out with it. Please private message me.
The radio i can get cheap is so cheap we don't need any ads on the radio. And yes. I can get the radio but i'm not the best to code websites and then a name.
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Haven't checked this post in a while as I've been quite busy. Just to clarify, I wouldn't be using any hosting/streaming pre-setup package. Also, I appreciate the amount of people offering to help out and code and stuff but from experience things become messy when this happens, I'd rather work alone. I am very very slowly working on the site for the radio, I can't work to tight deadlines because I am a busy person.
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Yes and No! As an idea, I like this. However, me personally ALWAYS INSTANT MUTE radio from hotel's website. I prefer much more playing my own music than listening some JB from radio, where 10 years old kid screams my ears off. Nuff said.
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r63
Haven't checked this post in a while as I've been quite busy. Just to clarify, I wouldn't be using any hosting/streaming pre-setup package. Also, I appreciate the amount of people offering to help out and code and stuff but from experience things become messy when this happens, I'd rather work alone. I am very very slowly working on the site for the radio, I can't work to tight deadlines because I am a busy person.
Sounds good, just figured that I make the offer to help. It still stands. :)
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You guys want to create an Radio Community stuff? Like loads of hotels in one single radio?
I think it's not a good idea, firstly is the case if one of the DJ's decide to annouce another Hotel. That's one of the reasons.
Another thing is that Habbo Hotel is GLOBAL, so if I open a brazillian hotel, I'll want a Brazillian Radio!
I think it is a good idea for each hotel have their own radio with Turn On/Off settings at User Settings.
The owner would have more control about it.
An idea I had was a public Ban domain community. Banning user in one hotel for DDoSing and all would ban in 'em all. Though the ban would need to be reviewed from some of the community's Staff, with a full reason.
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Droppy
You guys want to create an Radio Community stuff? Like loads of hotels in one single radio?
I think it's not a good idea, firstly is the case if one of the DJ's decide to annouce another Hotel. That's one of the reasons.
Another thing is that Habbo Hotel is GLOBAL, so if I open a brazillian hotel, I'll want a Brazillian Radio!
I think it is a good idea for each hotel have their own radio with Turn On/Off settings at User Settings.
The owner would have more control about it.
An idea I had was a public Ban domain community. Banning user in one hotel for DDoSing and all would ban in 'em all. Though the ban would need to be reviewed from some of the community's Staff, with a full reason.
Well, you would have to establish rules and if a DJ advertises a hotel, they'd be fired. It would just have to be strict. Also, as far as the foreign thing, I don't think that really applies here. Yeah there are foreign hotels, but think about it, you don't need a foreign retros list.
This would be mainly for English hotels. Foreign hotels could use it, but that's on them.
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Wreckless
Well, you would have to establish rules and if a DJ advertises a hotel, they'd be fired. It would just have to be strict. Also, as far as the foreign thing, I don't think that really applies here. Yeah there are foreign hotels, but think about it, you don't need a foreign retros list.
This would be mainly for English hotels. Foreign hotels could use it, but that's on them.
Yeah, but a big part of the community doesn't have English as a main language. But it's ok, it's not a big problem since it's maded for the English part.
And yeah, I agree.
