Turn up the !radio

[woj107]

alright so I brought up this topic on ts tonight and I thought I would post and just see how far it will go. I know we got skilled developers and marketers in here and stuff....but anyways, is there room to have the !radio function in here ...the only thing that I can think of as a con is perhaps lag issues, but I dont know if it would be that drastic...pros would be listening to a library of ppls music other than mine  

 

for those of you that dont know what !radio is...there were servers years ago that allowed you to play the "radio" which would be a variety of songs that the admins put in a databse and you could listen to it in game and even request upcoming songs!...it was great, many people didnt use it which is understandable but for those of you like me that have been playing this for years and need some music...it did expose you to nice music here and there  

 

Thoughts on this and wondering if I can talk to mods about piloting this ?

[Mikey]

I posted this in tmx forums a while ago, apparently it's not possible (as i remember being told)

 

But times change, maybe someone can do it now it would be good to see

[dronez4]

This can be done from the help of Blacky and WD, if they cant possibly get it done, i'll give it a try, i have abit of C++ Knowledge... anyway this can definitely be done as blacky or wd i dont know who made the !enablesounds and !disablesounds, for '1' player which means if u can do that, surely u can do the same for music to 1 player...

 

cant we use the !sndp command as the function for this?

just put music on there and put !musicon and !musicloop

 

 

lmao now that i think of it.. the sndp can be done through the RCFDS command so this can be done another way that i know

 

WD And Blacky if u do see this, could u please find out if u can do this? would help an awful lot.. its a great idea

Thanks for the nice idea woj, Its life-bringing

[Mikey]

From what I recall it was blacky who told me it wasnt possible because of renegades netcode or something but hey feel free to try

[Volcom]

Well I have had it on previous servers, but I know it was possible.

[Whitedragon]

There are functions to play an MP3 for a specific player. Of course the player will need to already have the MP3 so it will be limited to the music included in the game.

[CerealKlr]

I remember seeing this back in the day...seems like it lagged the shit out of the server. I mean streaming music to 30 people has got to use a lot of bandwidth...doesnt it?

 

At least the server it was on was laggy....I only tried it a couple of times and it didnt work well, but things change. I wouldnt mind listening to a little seek and destroy by metallica while playing.

[shaitan]

It's possible to do, the same way we added the extra sounds. The drawbacks: that person will have to have in their data or they would have to download from us as they join.

I don't see it happening frankly. The reason I took out the extra 50+ sounds I originally added was because of the lag. The DU meter would spike like crazy when a person joined who didn't already have the sounds. The rest of the players 'felt' it too.

[woj107]

I dont believe that there has to be any files that need to be downloaded by the player prior to joining the server as I dont remember anything loading long in past servers...it was just if you wanted it to play on your end you just !enable the radio and then can !skip or !request song I think ...anyways it was just a thought and I would absolutely love it as I ALWAYS used it and listened to other genres of music instead of just playing my winamp that I know what songs are on there ...seems there is some interest in here but people are afraid of the lag. Again, if its feasible, as I always say, pilot it for a little then change if it didnt work!

[Joetorp]

www.pandora.com

 

You can set your own stations.

Joe

[shaitan]

I love you Joe, and your sarcy wit. :;P:

[rzrbk1018]

How about linking shoutcast to server and on RC site people can upload songs to it and they will play in renegade?

[Mikey]

How about linking shoutcast to server and on RC site people can upload songs to it and they will play in renegade?

I had shoutcast in mind too that would be great if that could work

[BillieJoe67]

Get RCBot a timer for each player that iterates through their albums at the correct intervals.

 

For Gods sake don't add any more packages that people have to download

[Joetorp]

www.pandora.com

 

You can set your own stations.

Joe

[shaitan]

!music on/!music off.......bitches.

You do not have to download anything, you already have always.dat in your data folder. The regular renegade songs are being played. If it goes over well, maybe we can add a few mp3's into another .mix file(like the one with the cool sounds), later on. o.o

 

When the server's empty at night I'll test it out and see how that idea works.Lag-wise + if brenbot doesn't throw a shitfit..

[woj107]

came in game during sleep-renning lol and saw this...tested it ...but to no avail ...yes I paused my winamp haha

[shaitan]

It's been running all night.

 

I'm not setting it up so it can be auto-downloaded through the server. That took about 6 minutes to download the 108mb. Currently it is playing on sniper. You can dl it if you want, has a few songs in there. Throw it in your RenegadeData folder.

 

http://rencorner.net/forums/index.php/files/file/75-songsmix/