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connected
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 Posted - 2006/01/28 : 19:34:40
Connected Streaming is planning to launch a new company at the beginning of February 06. Certain parts of the site and automation systems are being finalized therefore we are offering you [color=red]20% off[/color] streaming and web site hosting till the 1st of february only. Once signed up your 20% discount will remain every month for life. Everything you need to start your own radio station or broadcast will be made available to you, Currently the tutorial section is still undergoing construction, We will happily work with you if you if have any questions regarding setting up the stream or web hosting in real time via msn or live chat. So what's available
We can offer you Shoutcast streaming and linux based web hosting with the award wining cpanel control panel. We can also offer Windows media stream without a control panel and windows hosting with plesk control panel ( Windows media is priced the same as our shoutcast streams.
An example of shoutcast streaming price is 25 listener slots at 96kbps costing you only £13.00 p/m Free setup
And just £4 p/m for a gig fo web site space.
A total of 32 Features are available in our Shoutcast control panel
Public or private directory listing selectable
Shoutcast server relay settings
Kick or ban by ip
reserve ip
XML stats
View server status
Title and url control
Start and stop Server
Edit Passwords
Usage statistics and graphs
Automatic Monthly usage email
Easy upload of Intro file and Back up file
On demand control and upload (coming soon)
We will be with you every step of the way to ensure your broadcast or web site hosting runs smoothly.
As i said before the web site is still being constructed but many option are available to you, including the shoutcast and cpanel order forms.
Click http://www.connectedstreaming.com/shoutcast.html for shoutcast and http://www.connectedstreaming.com/webhosting.htm for web site hosting.
If you would like to hear the quality of our servers you can listen to our demo stream and even request a song to be played automatically in the queue. http://www.connectedstreaming.com/radio The demo stream is mainly commercial music if you would like to hear the quality by listening to oldskool, simply check out http://www.remanissradio.net
Add [email protected] to your msn buddy list if you have any questions regarding the offer or Connected Streaming.
DONT FORGET TO ENTER THIS COUPON ON YOUR ORDER FOR YOUR 20% OFF. [color=red]l4stminute4[/color] (valid until 01-02-06)
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Underloop
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Posted - 2006/01/29 : 10:36:12
Looks good, and the prices sound good too! I went onto the site (nice design btw!) but the licencing page is down. Have you negotiated licencing with the MCPS/PRS/PPL or are broadcasters responsible for this side of things with your packages?
This is the main area of cost for any small station, and the one thing the UK seems to be lacking at the moment is a reasonably priced provider that covers licencing as well as stream providers for small/hobby broadcasters
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connected
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Posted - 2006/01/29 : 11:22:12
Hey underloop, Currently licensing is down to the indavidual broadcaster. We have been in talks with ppl, and mcps-prs to arange a suitable plan for uk broadcaster. The tricky thing is mcps-prs who collect the music rights royalties are saying that they will only license the end user directly. So what we are trying to establish is a online radio directory aimed at uk broadcaster's so inturn all stations will be displayed in one place. The owners of the indavidual stations can link through us on there sites, doing so they will also gain more votes for there station so it will display higher in the directory list.
As you can imagine the whole thing is long and complex, But this is definatly something we will be doing as soon as we can.
Trouble is with Uk licensing its very hard to understand, the majority of broadcaster i have spoke to wouldnt know where to start to even apply for a license. Also alot of broadcasters are using american joint licensing companies thinking they are fully licensed because there streaming server is based in the u.s but this isnt the case. If you broadcast from the uk you need a full mcps-prs and ppl license.
Anyway glad you like the site will be fully completed by the 1st of next month :)
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Underloop
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Posted - 2006/01/29 : 12:08:22
Your plans sound good! And certainly something I'll be looking into once its complete and the licencing is all sorted (providing the price is right of course ;-) )
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Originally posted by connected:
Trouble is with Uk licensing its very hard to understand, the majority of broadcaster i have spoke to wouldnt know where to start to even apply for a license. Also alot of broadcasters are using american joint licensing companies thinking they are fully licensed because there streaming server is based in the u.s but this isnt the case. If you broadcast from the uk you need a full mcps-prs and ppl license
Well, it depends how you broadcast from the american server. If your broadcasting live from the UK over to the american server then you need to licence the single stream that goes from the UK. If your music database is based in the US then you are covered, be it a live server broadcasting to the main US server, or your files are stored directly on the main US server. :-) Its just a great big PITB! LOL
Do you have a ballpark timescale for organising the licencing side of things? This year/next year?
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connected
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Posted - 2006/01/29 : 12:50:51
Its something were working on. It seems ppl are really helpfull to talk to but with mcps-prs there quite reluctent to work anything out. They want to be the ones that license the broadcaster they dont seem to want anyone to help them which is pointless.
What we have proposed is we make a radio directory to list all the stations, we then collect a percentage of the license fee of each broadcaster. So it would be one big joint license. We would report to mcps-prs and ppl by the way of how many broadcasting hours have been used how many listeners in total with full logs presented to them.
But the most important thing is we would make it easy for uk broadcasters to be licensed for a fee that wont break the bank. If Uk broadcaster can not find a easy informative and low cost solution to licensing then there just carry on evading the fees meaning the record companies and artists will also loose out on money that they are due.
I feel we could have this solution for ppl licensing within the next few months, we are currently working on a very in depth proposal that we can present to mcps-prs so it all depends on them really. Ideally i would like the whole joint license plan up and running by late april, but all depends on mcps-prs.
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silver
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Posted - 2006/01/30 : 03:41:35
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Originally posted by Underloop:
Well, it depends how you broadcast from the american server. If your broadcasting live from the UK over to the american server then you need to licence the single stream that goes from the UK. If your music database is based in the US then you are covered, be it a live server broadcasting to the main US server, or your files are stored directly on the main US server. :-)
Technically you still need a US license :)
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