Hi all,

I've spent the last couple of weeks putting together a Pure Data based streaming radio station and it's finally at the point where I'm happy to let people know about it.

The system is a python script controlling PD and is able to load and fade between patches, the output of which is then streamed over the net. The whole thing is running off a cheap VPS server but it seems to be holding up well.

You can listen to it currently by going to http://radio.rumblesan.com and there are more details available on the technical stuff at my blog, rumblesan.com

One of the things I'm hoping is that I can get some other people involved in this. I have lots of ideas and things I'd like to add in future, but the first thing that really needs doing is making more patches. Lots more patches!

Over the weekend I'm going to write up how the control and interface stuff works and all the info needed for people to create patches. All the code and the patches made so far are up on GitHub if people want to have a look, links are in the blog post.

I love this. I've been playing it at work for hours on end. I wish I could find the time to get cracking and contribute something.

Just a heads up for anybody wondering what's happening with this.

Currently the radio is down due to the VPS exploding (data centre outage and DDOS attack) I've been rebuilding the server and things should be back up and running this evening.

I haven't been working on this due to a bit of a creative rut but I still intend to keep this running indefinitely. I have another PD/Python Radio station project in the works and I fully expect some of the work on that to bleed into Patchwerk, even if it is just a neatening up of code.

@tasteforreality: Just wanted to give a sign of live again. Had been working really much in the last months, but i think and hope i will be able to finish the wordpress theme in the next weeks.

Will the patches stream ok if they're outputting MIDI data or must it be audio? I could use a soundfont within the patch if necessary.

Hey, I'm afraid the output from the patches must be audio. changing that would be quite a lot of work currently.

I don't actually have any experience using SoundFonts with PD either. I'm guessing there's an external needed, is it in one of the existing PD libraries or would i need to add it separately? No problem if I do, I'm happy to try and accommodate peoples patches if i'm able.

if you can give me some more info then i;m sure we can work something out

Hi,

I'm glad to see the stream's up and running again. Always good for a listen. But one thing that used to be on the site seems to be missing - the "now playing" information. Have I just missed it somewhere, or is this info not accessible at the moment? Was a nice feature.

(also, how often are the patches rotated on the stream? The one currently playing is pretty nice, but it feels like I've been listening to it for some time now....)

Still hoping to submit something for this at some point, by the way.

hey, indeed the now playing part hasn't been re added to the site yet, needs to be fixed.

and yeah, the python script crashed but PD kept going so the same patch has been playing for... quite a while now, someone else pointed it out to me tonight.

I've restarted the stream but I need to improve the logging and error handling.

would be awesome to have you contribute, just drop me a linbe, i have a couple of patches to go on, i'm just being rubbish about getting to it. Might have a code push again over xmas

Hey TFR.

I had this concept as a dream for a few years, and I knew I couldn't make it work, and I always assumed I could never find a person who could. I am super pumped that you have done it. I love it.

If I can help in any way, I would love to. I am probably the worst coder on here, though. But still.

The best.

Hey Tango,

glad to hear you like it. the project has fallen on the back burner a little bit but I still try to work on it semi regularly.

if you want to help out then have a go at writing a patch for it. there's not much to it and the guidelines for how to do it are back up on the site at http://radio.rumblesan.com

cheers for taking an interest

hi,

i have dowmloaded 2 patches but i get many error messages after opening in pd on windows 7.

what could be wrong ?

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Unbenannt.jpg

Looks like you've downloaded a html file, which pd doesn't really like i guess.

these are the files from the radio and the ending is .pd !?

... yes, html files - but why ?

and how to import. copy and paste doesn't work for me

i have the pd files from here
https://github.com/notesandvolts/Radio-Patches/blob/master/05-TinkerbellsHymn/main-05-Tinkerbell%27sHymn.pd

hey ahs,

a better bet is to download the entire repo of patches from github as a zip file here

https://github.com/notesandvolts/Radio-Patches/downloads

when you want to play a patch as a stand alone version, copy the patchComs.pd abstraction into the patch folder, then start the patch as usual. patchComs mimics the patch startup as if it were played on the radio and handles the audio output

thanks for your help