January 2012
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Loudcaster Daily DJ: Ross Hemsworth (The Hammer)...
The Daily DJ today is talk show host The Hammer (Ross), from Nailing It! The Hammer Show. Where to listen: http://loudcaster.com/channels/854-nailing-it-the-hammer-show More info: http://thehammershow.co.uk/ Ross and I first met in August of last year when he was in between radio homes.  His website hinted at some pretty interesting (and edgy)talk show topics and I wanted to hear more.  We both...
Jan 12th
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Loudcaster Daily DJ: Daniel Peragine(DJ DP) on DJ...
The Daily DJ today is DJ DP (Daniel), from DJ DP Radio. Where to listen: http://loudcaster.com/channels/986-dj-dp-radio More info: http://www.djdpradiolive.com/ Daniel and Loudcaster have traded messages in Twitter a few times over the last month.  He’s always so positive and attentive.  You really get a sense of his personality if you listen in to his news spot, which he also posts in...
Jan 6th
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Loudcaster Daily DJ: Jack Sharp from JackMix.FM
Today is the first day of our new feature, The Daily DJ Our spotlight today is JD, from JackMix. Where to listen: http://loudcaster.com/channels/73-jackmix More info: http://jackmix.fm/ When I asked Jack how he got started in radio, his answer inspired him to be the first DJ in our spotlight.  He answered “I started in radio right out of high school.  Worked at a local MOR station for 2...
Jan 5th
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Happy New Year - Now bring on the fresh!
We hope everyone had a fabulous set of holidays and are looking forward to the new year! In the spirit of newness we want to encourage everyone be FRESH! Channel owners and DJs don’t wait for spring for a good cleaning of your line ups, playlists, and content.  We know its time consuming, and most certainly a labor of love, but spritz up your channels with plans for new Station IDS and...
Jan 3rd
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November 2011
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Time to update your Loudcaster Widgets!
Hey Loudcasters,  Along with our soon-to-be-released Fall Updates, also coming is a Now Playing Widget with a makeover.  This also means that your existing widgets will fail to function and need to be replaced.  Don’t panic though, its 3 simple steps to new widget magic. The widget is comprised of your channels logo, a background color, now playing information for up to 5 tracks overlayed...
Nov 23rd
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October 2011
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“I am amazed at radio DJ’s today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio...”
– Lucky for us Loudcaster is internet radio, a better breed of DJs. Thanks Loudcasters, you’re the best.
Oct 30th
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Interested in creating a morning show? Free...
Hey Loudcasters and Radio Broadcasters! Got an email today from allaccess.com (Thanks guys!) inviting radio broadcasters to a free webinar.  I know what you’re going to say… Webinars are usually boring!  Don’t rush to judgement this could be insanely awesome.   Here’s the skinny.  The Reynolds Group (You know Steve Reynolds’ work even if you haven’t heard his...
Oct 6th
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September 2011
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Sep 22nd
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Listeners dwindling on your radio station? ...
Hey Loudcasters and Station owners,  Getting listeners is taxing, and maintaining them is just as much so.  So I thought it appropriate to post a list of thoughts and tips about getting and keeping people coming back.  PLEASE feel free to add your comments and thoughts and I’ll update the post with them. Also, any listeners out there reading this, we LOVE your feedback too! Tip #1 Keep...
Sep 19th
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Sep 8th
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DJ Bot not rotating as you'd expect?
Hey Loudcasters,  Ever wonder why tracks aren’t rotating as you’d expect?  Often times this comes down to track selection rules.  The rules are located in the Manage Audio section of your DJ Dashboard.  Lets say your rules are: 200 - Track 180 - Album 160 - Artist 30 - Station ID / PSA Lets take two tracks, “One Fun” and “Two Fun”, by “The...
Sep 7th
August 2011
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Is there room on the lifeboat?
In our small team at Loudcaster, whether there is room in the online-radio-or-streaming-music-industry for all the players in it is a topic that rears its head once in a while.  As we discussed it the other day, Brandon made the point that the market is far from saturated, that the services are structured differently, bring in different audience, and have different goals.  Basically he was saying...
Aug 31st
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Preview Of Upcoming Scheduling Feature
As promised, Dear Loudcasters… — drumroll please — SCHEDULING! Our new scheduler features: Easily navigable Full screen calendar Drag and drop playlist onto weekly calendar view Built-in error protection against double booking  Heads and shoulders above the previous schedules method and we just know you’re going to dig it as much as we do!  I’m so excited...
Aug 25th
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Uploading
Guess what time it is kids?!  Track Uploading Time!!!   (((( and the crowd cheers… that means you, go ahead, cheer.  hmm… that wasn’t much of a cheer, thats better! ))) For our upcoming release, track uploads are easier than ever.   Tracks can be selected in your file explorer, using a drag and drop interface, onto the track type (PSA, Station ID or Content), a handy feature...
Aug 23rd
Personal vs Personalized
Radio’s definition is in limbo now, is hotly debated in some circles, and will likely come out the other side looking quite different than it does even after this recent movement.  That said, I love radio, regardless of its definition. I feel, however, it’s important to make a single distinction.  Radio is personal… Sorted music collections are personalized.  Both have their...
Aug 22nd
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Preview Of Upcoming Playlist Feature
Greetings Loudcasters!!!   More goodies for our favorite DJs.  Today we have a demonstration of creating new Playlists in the DJ Dashboard.  It’s so easy and smooth I’m dripping with anticipation of this all being released and putting it into your capable little paws!! Creating a Playlist shouldn’t be clunky or cumbersome, it shouldn’t need a manual and it...
Aug 20th
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Are you interesting enough to be ugly?
Radio stations, podcasters and bloggers in a way have it easier than the rest of their web-counterparts.  People don’t only absorb content from these sources from their originating website.  This means that if your site is so-so, difficult to navigate, ugly as sin, or just unappealing, it might not turn away all your viewers, they simply never see it.   But for the rest of the audience who...
Aug 18th
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Music Communities. Its Cliche…. For A Reason
Communties around music are nothing new.  Since it’s inception when the first caveman began banging sticks on walls as a way of communicating some emotion, idea, or action, others listened and responded accordingly.  Regardless of the reason of the particular song or sound, others will flock to engage, give opinions, join in, learn about, purchase or belong to a conglomerate of like minded...
Aug 17th
DJ Dashboard and Loudcaster Stack COMPLETELY NEW!
We’ve had requests.  We’ve watched the logs.  We’ve seen the glitches, the needs and the potential.  We knew we could do better, and just like the 6 million dollar man… “Gentlemen, we can rebuilt it.  We have the technology….. Better. Stronger. Faster.” And so we did.  You may think all has been quiet from us the last few months, but we were not sitting idly by as you made requests for features,...
Aug 15th
Rockabilly-Radio Station Manager - Owner
We have been running and monitoring our Audio output of the Auto DJ Bot and adding and deleting tracks to suit our requirements, so far it has been very reliable with very few Glitches, dropouts or buffering. The new feature of the Scheduler we will be testing out from August 15th and will report anything that is working well and what may need adjusting or improving, We hope to assist in that end...
Aug 15th
taxbiz asked: Two questions: When, if at all, do you expect to have an Android App.
Second, I have a WiFi radio. How do I get Loudcaster channels picked up by the radio.
Aug 14th
June 2011
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Loudcaster is Growing!
Its been a pretty insane year at Loudcaster.  From website redesigns to massive architectural changes and the change in customer expectations creating 24 hr/day support initiatives to spreading the word of how awesome our DJs are, we’ve really stretched our limits and expanded our horizons. We’re proud to say that in 2011 we have grown 184% over last year with new listeners and DJs...
Jun 16th
April 2011
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#rain Dan Mason of CBSi views radio as a utility...
We’ll expand Dan’s view on radio and media with a full article later today.
Apr 11th
February 2011
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New Loudcaster Feature: Better Track Manager
Hello Loudcasters! We’ve soft-launched a new track manager. It’s in your dashboard and will run side-by-side with the current track manager until it’s shown to be be bug free. This is what you can do with the new track manager: - Upload multiple files right in the browser, so say good by to FTP if you’ve been dreading it - Better search capabilities - Ability to edit meta data - Visual...
Feb 13th
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Chat Streams
Two things make on-line radio special to us. First it’s delivered over an Internet connection, which means you can can interact with the other people using the radio stream. Second, when consumed with desktops and mobile devices, you can blend interesting imagery with it. So now you can jump into a chat stream on Loudcaster and see what’s up with everyone including the DJ’s, and be wowed by...
Feb 8th
January 2011
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Help us build a super simple desktop radio...
By now, 2011, broadcasting should be as easy as blogging and it’s not. Many people are overwhelmed by it. We want to change this by getting together with a desktop app developer that loves online radio, broadcasting and DJ-ing. Over the years many first time broadcasters have told us they find virtually all on-line radio broadcasting tools are a bit like jumping into an F16 fighter cockpit...
Jan 11th
December 2010
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New Loudcaster Features
Happy Holidays! We have new stuff! On-Air For $9.95 Many features have been made into options, so any new broadcaster can start broadcasting as low as $9.95  per month with crisp clear sound and a smooth listener experience. Compare that with the competition. Shoutcast We now support broadcasting with shoutcast clients in addition to icecast clients! So we can support any shoutcast based...
Dec 24th
September 2010
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New Loudcaster Features: Crossfading and MP3...
Greetings DJ’s! Two new highly requested DJBot features are now available for use: Crossfading…. With one caveat, if you turn this on all tracks get crossfaded. Including station id’s and PSA’s. Depending on a few things, it could sound a little odd when a PSA or Sation ID is played. MP3 Stereo… For that that prefer it, you can toggle the mp3 portion of your output between stereo and mono. ...
Sep 29th
August 2010
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New Feature: Generous DJ Referrals
Greetings Loudcasters! We now have a generous referral system that saves you money. You can find more details in the Broadcaster Dashboard under the Referrals Tab. It’s simple, when someone uses your link we assign a 30 day cookie. If they make a purchase in those 30 days, we’ll apply a credit to your account. The credit is 50% f what they signed up for, up to a max value of $25 per...
Aug 26th
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New Feature: Mobile Webite
Tonight we launched a mobile optimized version http://loudcaster.com! It allows for easy searching, listening and accessing favorite channels. Now your listeners can tune in with their Internet connected smart phones, like the iPhone, from the car or just walking around town! The mobile site can be a accessed simply by going to http://loudcaster.com with a smartphone. Visitors can switch...
Aug 25th
July 2010
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DJ Bot improvements
We’ve made some enhancements to the DJ Bot based on your feed back. DJ Bot is no longer cross-fading Station ID’s and PSA/Sweepers and we got rid of an occasional delay between track selections. We also simplified the scheduling of Station ID’s, PSA’s and Sweepers by combining them into a Station Break. Down the road we’ll add customizable clock-wheel features. Next on the to-do list is...
Jul 28th
March 2010
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Stats: AM-FM Dinasaurs are Losing Ground to...
According to the Radio Industry News blog, 2009 marked the first year terrestrial radio started to lose ground to Internet Radio, which now has over 69 million listeners.  Check out their post to see Internet Radio’s hocky stick and terrestrial radio’s glide path. If you cruise through the stats (and if you’re a listener, you already know) that the top reasons are: Finding things to listen to...
Mar 19th
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Mar 17th
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Monsterous Psychedelic Bubble Explosion
(wow.) I was checking out the Motel de Moka blog this morning when I came across Electroid 2000′s A Monsterous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind Vol. 2 (Platypus, 2008).    Schils posted it.  Great find man! I don’t know what to say about this track.  Surprising, strange, a little 60′s coupled with Middle Eastern?   I’ll settle for calling it wild. Motel de Moka: Keep on the hunt!
Mar 14th
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When I say 70s music, what comes to mind?
What do you think of when you think 70′s music?  Disco?  The Brady bunch theme song?  (I try not to.)  Many ears (and reputations) were wounded during the 70s.  Leagues of hipsters permanently lost their manhood from dancing in skin tight polyester jeans.   (They had this rating system called Paint Scraper.  From one to ten, how strong did the paint scraper have to be to remove the...
Mar 12th
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Daft Punk and the Tron Soundtrack
Coming soon and I can’t wait:  the Tron Legacy movie.  One of my favorite techno bands,  Daft Punk did the soundtrack.  I can’t imagine a more perfect fit.  Their style is so Tron anyway…  My favorite Daft tracks?  Da Funk, Harder Better Faster Stronger…  More coverage on the Synthetic Sound Blog.
Mar 11th
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Do your ears get bored?
I keep wondering about my ears.  They get bored.  They’re like little kids in a way.  Remember telling your Mom that you’re bored?  My Mom had two stock responses: Go outside or go read a book.  Those were primarily dependent on the weather.  Here’s what I know about my ears: Ear Likes:  Mainly instrumental, any genre (could be polka, could even be Bhudist Chants) Ear Dislikes:  The MBTA...
Mar 10th
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Be Live! Be Loud! Welcome to the Loudcaster Blog
Loudcaster is an internet radio platform that allows any broadcaster to easily build their own internet radio station! Stay tuned as this venture-funded startup lays down an incredible service for you to be live and LOUD!
Mar 6th