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Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by tjohns »

sowbug wrote: post #40
ehPReth wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

oh awesome, thank you! I shall have a look into this :) edit: how important would antenna placement be? I assume it's not just like receiving an commericial FM music station signal in a building eh? I could mount it on the roof; but setting up a big mast would be an issue landlord wise! "As the crow flies" I'm fairly close to the airport

Half the transmissions come from airplanes, rather than the tower, so signal distance and strength will vary.

Any airborne aircraft are easy to hear, due to line of sight.

The tower and anyone on the ground are usually the trickiest signals to receive unless you're close to the airport.

Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by paxys »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #28
sen wrote: post #24

This is awesome. How would something like this she made? I had a similar idea (but mixing entirely different types of streams) and did a whole bunch of searching and couldn’t find a way to mix two external streams. Do you record/buffer the streams and write local chunks to stream from? Or is it more like “bounce this stream but mix some local audio files over it”?

I guess you could always play two streams at once and let the users audio device sort it out.

That's exactly what is happening here. There are two audio streams played by your browser, one being an mp3 file on the server (the lofi track) and the other coming from liveatc.net.

Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by paxys »

Kinda shitty to not even credit liveatc.net anywhere on the site while directly streaming their feed.

Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by dewey »

I've been using this now since it was posted but I'm realizing that it often stops the music (Safari), once I visit the tab again it continues playing.

Bug?

Edit: Now that I switched to the tab I could see for brief second a "Music could not load, try refreshing" message flash. After a brief moment it started playing again.

Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by sundvor »

paxys wrote: post #44

Kinda shitty to not even credit liveatc.net anywhere on the site while directly streaming their feed.

The speaker or broadcast symbol just above right of the the airport code in the middle takes the user straight there.

Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by brewdad »

humanizersequel wrote: post #23
HomeDeLaPot wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like you're right, this is breaking their TOS: >4) Since there are only limited numbers of connections available for streams, and because the site is funded through advertising and donations, you agree to consult LiveATC.net prior to linking directly to any of the audio streams. When you do link you agree to give credit to LiveATC.net with a prominent link to www.liveatc.net. Not nice.

>you agree to consult LiveATC.net prior to linking directly to any of the audio streams Why jump to that conclusion? She could have consulted with them while building this.

I would hope crediting and/or linking LiveATC would be a part of such an agreement. More likely, they are breaking TOS.

Re: Lo-Fi ATC

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Post by [deleted] »

sundvor wrote: post #46
paxys wrote: post #44

Kinda shitty to not even credit liveatc.net anywhere on the site while directly streaming their feed.

The speaker or broadcast symbol just above right of the the airport code in the middle takes the user straight there.

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