outloud.fm/ILXORS — it's like Listening Room but not buggy and like turntable.fm but not designed for tweens. (RIP 2012)

hmm i'll check

Very lively right now. Come see us!

Junior Murvin → Cocteau Twins → The Frogs... that just happened.

Frogrock

I don't like the name so much compared to the previous 2 iterations of this concept but the interface is def the slickest so far. Actually really reminds me of early 00's chatrooms... nostalgia or something.

Come visit - we're having fun in there.

I could really see this concept evolve into something brilliant, with some more features, for instance the ability to book 30 or 60 minute slots for 'radio show' like stuff, include mic support for dj'ing (or stand up comedy), etc. Some kind of modding/banning/voting system would be required then tho, maybe like "more than 75% of the listeners hate yr set -> kick". Or something.

Checked in earlier - heard some amazing stuff. Thanks!

xp - if it isnt broke dont fix it.

with tight community moderation, a rating system, and the ability to stream without having to be in the chat room, i could see this being an internet radio alternative. are there room operators with mod privileges to ban trolls who queue up inappropriate stuff, or people who consistently play glitchy mp3s? I have zero interest in chatting on the internet, but wouldn't mind bookmarking a few consistently good rooms to listen to as background music or whatever.

i think i'm in there, and i tried to upload a song but it didn't work
??

yaaay it worked
i like this!

We are rocking Toronto!

http://turntable.fm/gfunk_friday

http://outloud.fm/ILXORS

FITE

anyone here?

http://www.funlinksdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/peanuts-lucy-psychiatrist.png

coming on in about 10 mins

okey dokey we're having a bit of a jazz wing ding guys

a+ jazz symposium this afternoon. though i still had some trouble with the player stopping at random, having to refresh the page every few minutes. maybe chrome isn't optimal for this after all.

tonight's sesh is kind of eclectic

someone else get in here

drag'n'drop from mac itunes no work
like most flash-based music stuff it's picky about bit rate
oddly it works on mobile safari but not regliar safari

animated site ICOn = BOOO

that icon is the best bit!

otm

outloud sounds like a youthgroup for lgbt teens

It's been fine with me about bit rate - I've uploaded plenty of 320s - but you can't upload anything over 20mb.

Quite a few occurrences last night of songs stopping half the way through, though. Thinking there might be a server glitch with vbr or something presently. They're generally good about fixing problems quickly once they know about them.

Quite a few = 3 or 4.

lol plax

The favicon dances! I'm out.

that icon is the best bit!

― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Sunday, July 3, 2011 12:15 AM Bookmark

metal

;_;

whinging about metal
;_;

wonder if lightly themed rooms might be a way to go

it gets v dancey at night

Mmmm currently dj-ing by myself in there. There's more people but I've no idea if they're listening because noone is talking. Anyhoo...

The favicon dances!

It's actually Cool Spot.

Many listeners at the moment, but there should be more uploaders too.

Whenever I see at least an hour's worth of queue ahead of me (which is always) I say fuckit, y'all'll just have to do without my brilliant choices.

I agree this is a problem...allowing everyone to upload five tracks each doesn't work well with more than a couple of users.

Hmm, I'll gladly remove some of my tunes from the queue if that means more people will upload theur tunes.

I'm at work so not available for Outloudage anyway...btw my comment wasn't aimed at anyone in particular, I've maxed out the queue myself on numerous occasions.

The reason I put the max amount was because few others seemed to be uploading, but maybe they didn't want to upload because of so many tunes in the queue? Oh no, it's a vicious circle!

a bit of restraint and turn-taking and not queueing anything when there's more than half a dozen already up ought to fix that. again not pointing a finger cos i've shoved plenty of tracks up.

Yeah I think we can place our faith in self-regulation.

I'm also liable to queue up drones, horrible noises and/or insect music, stuff I figure might not go over too well.

people cd maybe delete anything they've queued if they're gonna leave the room. wouldn't want to have rules about what kind of things people shd play but obv i wouldn't queue up 5 looooong Merzbow tracks and then fuck off cos that wd be a bit doltish imo

Okay, we decided that tonight's theme is SPACE! Log in to Outloud and get your cosmic kicks!

and kind of grit your teeth about how horrid it looks

I... kind of like the look. As I've said before, I prefer clean functionality over any graphics, but... I kind of like the trippy pyramids and strange creatures.

Me and crüt are playing around with it right now, if anyone wants to join in.

what's the "turntable" thing you can load from?

nm, i'll google it

anyway, my favorite thing about outloud was that you could load from your own files, you didn't have to search on this or that site. this loses that, but the ability to share videos is nice.

Oh yeah, I miss that ability, totally. This is a different thing, but seeing as we no longer have outloud, it's the best we've got.

Still no word from Michael on outloud yet, btw. It's the weekend, though...maybe he's not on fb at the weekend.

i may be here

Anybody around?

no. football is on

Also: BEAR with it, JJ. You'll get used to it.

Second call for Sunday afternoon rock party?

alright, here's the word from Michael:

hey dude. i know, i'm sorry

we're bummed too, but the reality of it is that we recently started getting letters and phone calls from BMI, SESAC, and ASCAP (the music licensing agencies) asking for money to secure licensing, since continuing to operate the site requires broadcast licenses from each agency. way more money than we are capable of coughing up right now, sadly. so at the risk of also getting legal threats for not paying up, we had to take it down for now until we figure something out. i'd like to bring the site back in some fashion, maybe something password resicted or invite only, but i'm not clear on if that would protect us legally either - we'll have to see.

:( bye outloud, it was fun.

Tis a sad day. Actually, I guess the truly sad day was several weeks ago when it actually went offline, but knowing what happened is also very sad.

Noooooooooooo.

It sounds so final. :(

WHY MUST EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD THAT IS GOOD AND PURE DIE

I'm surprised they even let us listen to music tbh

Anyone want to kill a few minutes? With KNIVES.

Should we rename this thing to "plug.DJ/ILXORS"? Also – come on in, the music is fine!

What about a new Plug thread, and an "RIP" + lockage for this one?

I wouldn't lock this thread, but yeah, new one for plug and an RIP in the title would be good.

plug is pretty nice!

any "upload yr own tracks" service is probably not going to fly anymore, i guess...

...

Made a new thread: plug.DJ/ILXORS – it's like Outloud but not defunct and like turntable.FM but internationally accessible and with more bears

this would have been a perfect night for this shit to still work

i mean

for reals

theres always plug.dj

now that i actually made it work

it has bears and kind of sucks but hey

http://www.plug.dj/ilxors/

if u intersted. toadies party!