ILXOR Listening Room - DJ my day

00:06 OhNoItsReallyHi:someone bump ILXOR Listening Room - DJ my day and tell ilx its Gareth Night please ;)

Bump bump ... we're going through a punk retro phase.

Improbable covers night in full swing.

After an uploading hiccup, room appears to be working again.

Somebody come in here and upload music that Kerr hates, plz.

nice try

haha

Bump for 'Chico Batera's Cabana Cocktail'

Bumping for Barry Adamson, Neu, Politicians, Paul Simon etc etc

It's BEAR HOUR!

Apologies to those who were chased off a bit ago. I played the sucker and let Kerr push my buttons and I should've known better, really. The last thing I want is for the ILXORS room to be an unstable environment. It should be fun and vibrant and, most of all, varied.

...and that was the crux of my argument. If you have a single person uploading two tracks, of ANY genre, that go on for an accumulated 26 minutes (or thereabouts) it really throws a wrench in the works. A simple "hey, would you all be interested in hearing ________?" is all anyone really needs to do before uploading something that's really REALLY long. Otherwise, go nuts.

Hey, how do I shot this?

This reminds me of Picklefish, the pizza joint in downtown Mobile where somebody at night would invariably put Beck's "Debra" on the jukebox, which included about 18 minutes of silence before the pointless bonus track.

I wasn't chased off, btw, just had to restart my internet connection when it crapped out.

http://outloud.fm/ILXORS

hmmm, do i have to let them access my twitter or fb? cause that ain't gonna happen

just reg another acct

not really. that's just a sticky detail in the permissions, but these two guys who run the place could honestly care less about your twitter or fb account.

the log of the last hour is dispiriting reading

It was not enjoyable for sure.

currently playing a track from the new Motown/Mowest compilation. room warming up but still time to get your selections heard and make fun of kerr.

nevermind. cocksuckers just want to sabotage by uploading stupid shit then leaving the room. waste of time, imo.

Bumping. All is sweetness and harmony.

A few ppl on the outloud now; v mellow vibe as far as this first-time visitor can see.

Tony McPhee for the next five hours... Possibly.

BUMP, as I'm DJ-ing to an empty room...

Almost a handful there now; funk & disco evening in the making, it appears

Yeah, it's mostly funky in there this afternoon...

Has the site gone down?

Main page coming up, but can't log into a room.

can't even get the front page...

oh good, we back.

Still going!

Kerr's still funking and I'm just playing whatever comes to mind. Join us, won't you?

Good day! Sunshine!

FINALLY some good tunes RIGHT THIS SECOND.

where? I don't see anyone in the outloud

Couple of people in there now

Where would you rather be at [insert timezone-appropriate value] on a Sunday?

It is happening again.

yeah, i broke it by accidentally uploading a jpg file. :( i sent 'em an email asking for help.

and got a response back in ~5 minutes. back up!

re: turntable.fm

Can't remember if it was mentioned here or not, but I just posted this in another place and thought I'd reiterate here.

I've played around on turntable.fm a little bit and, while it has some cool aspects, it turns the experience into more of a contest or game than I'm comfortable with. I'd rather just hang with people I know and play tunes instead of voting things up or down. Also, the chat portion of turntable.fm is deemphasized in favor of some totally dumb "virtual club" setting which looks like an 8 year-old's video game. No thanks.

this is all true but I like that it automatically rotates among the room DJs so your tracks are shuffled better

also if you just create a small room and have a few people in there it's just hanging with people you know playing tunes

i.e. you don't have to bother with the voting business

also like that it sends you an email if one of the "DJs" you're "following" logs on

so you can know if any friends are on

Your positives register with me, but I still think the format/layout is really non-conducive to a good time.

it definitely looks corny. the avatars are like Wii characters.

oh yeah forgot I also like that you can search and play tracks from a database. I can't really upload anything from work so I could only use outloud as a listener

Fresh blood?

turntable.fm, front page:

We're very sorry, but while we would love to let you in and rock out with us, we need to currently restrict turntable access to only the United States due to licensing constraints.

We are working very hard to try and get you in as soon as possible.

That settles it, I guess? I think Outloud has worked really nicely, with few of the problems Listening Room had. It's a pity you have to use you a Twitter/FB account to log in, but you can just create a fake Twitter account like I did. I don't see any need to use another site at the moment.