ILXOR Listening Room - DJ my day

http://listeningroom.fettig.net/room/ILXOR/

Listening Room is a website for listening to music with your friends. Anyone in a room can play mp3s from their computer, and everyone hears the same thing at the same time.

Listening Room is also a work in progress. For best results, use a recent version of Chrome, Safari, or Firefox. If it stops working, try hitting the refresh button.

^great idea imo

neat!

That looks great. I tried to add something but don't think it took. Already running late this morning though so know time to fool with it.

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And, before giving me grief, its the only browser I can use at work.

yeah this doesn't seem to work in IE yet but it's a cool idea, will check it out after work

# Amazing Creature is now forksclovetofu. ( 2:41 PM )
# Fabulous Hamster is now hoihoihr. ( 2:41 PM )

Slightly Confused is now seandalai

it's really glitchy but once they get this worked out it could be ilx with music.

Oh, you can change your name. Was this thing designed by an ILXor?

how kind of you to allow ilxor to dj your day

maybe it's about not uploading more than two or three songs at a time?

clearly this is meant for me to DJ everyone's day, right?

(soundtrack would just be a bunch of stuff from the ILX metal poll today, honestly)

it seems to be crazy glitchy, but the potential is awesome.

it's gonna need constant pruning and attention; i think certain tracks stick in its craw and you need to remove them as they come up.

and ilxor, throw on some metal!

:(
cant get in. have tried chrome and IE8.

firefox basically works.

we need more djs

site doesn't work for me, sorry :(

it worked but then it didnt

gotta hit some refresh buttons

i did a refresh and it didn;t work and then i opened it in another window and that didn't work and then i made a cup of tea and that really worked but it didn't have any cake with it so that part was good rather than great

so, are we supposed to upload mp3s to it ?
if so, then surely this is open to the same kind of troubles as muxtape ?

has anyone upped songs you like yet? I couldnt get in the room, it just froze everytime and im on firefox

several people have upped stuff! feel free to try creating a different room and posting link here if you wanna.
you're not uploading the mp3s per se, you're streaming them just to your room. you can't replay.

what stuff you liked has been upped? Did ilxor up some metal?

ahhh .. penny has dropped.
http://listeningroom.fettig.net/room/ireallylovemusic/

Generous Cat added The Bees by Holger Zilske from From Birds & Bees EP. ( 9:42 AM )
EZ Snappin added Beat of Love by Voice of the Beehive from Let it Bee. ( 9:49 AM )
Gracious Fellow added Color Of Success by Morris Day from Color Of Success. ( 9:42 AM )

generous cat???

it randomly generates these weirdo animal usernames
i got "glowing rabbit"

the spinning artwork is freaking me out.
no idea how that happened.

this sounds weird spinning artwork?

it pulls your mp3 info including the album cover and then the album cover appears as a record, which spins.

aw it's not doing the spinning album covers for me

tempted up upload Mouldy Old Dough by Earl Brutus - but concnered this would allow the track to be 'leaked' ?

honestly i'm digging what forks is listening to too much to add my own shit yet!

ha.
each room needs a bookmarking list so you can flip between each one.

yeah, i'm juggling like three and missing stuff.
this is killing my productivity today

Current playlist:

Sweet Like a Honey Bee by Sir Lancelot from Trinidad Is Changing
Loretta Lynn - Little Red Shoes.mp3
Freedom Day by Max Roach from We Insist!: Freedom Now Suite
The Chicks I Pick Are Slender, Tender And Tall by Louis Jordan from 1941-1943
St. James Infirmary by Josh White from Le Triomphes des Blue
Shake, Shake Mama (Cherry Ball) by Mance Lipscomb from Texas Blues Guitar
Mewing And Squealing by Elks from Elk Mating Rituals
The Assassination by Dixie Nightingales from Disturb My Soul - The Stax Sessions
Hush Hush by Dixie Nightingales from Disturb My Soul - The Stax Sessions
Cool Water by The Sons of the Pioneers from Hillbilly Fever!
Brown Eyed Handsome Man by Chuck Berry from His Best (Vol. 1)
Astral Glamour by The Homosexuals
Walkin' In The Rain by Marvin Gaye from The Soulful Sounds Of Marvin Gaye
Marion's Theme by The London Symphony Orchestra from Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Never Can Say Good-Bye by New Birth from Greatest Funk Classics
Holidae Inn (Featuring Ludacris And Snoop Dogg) by Chingy from Jackpot
Mood Indigo by Charles Mingus from Mingus Dynasty

okay, so if the record is totally black, it won't load the song. If it's got a picture on it, it's fine. If there's gray on the record, that's the playtime.

so, are we supposed to upload mp3s to it ?
if so, then surely this is open to the same kind of troubles as muxtape ?

― mark e, Friday, January 14, 2011 10:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this doesn't allow direct downloads though does it? it's just streaming? it'd be more comparable to internet radio then, or someone running a shoutcast server, which i don't know the legality of.

yeah.
i realised once i got a room up and running and started playing around.
going to try and figure out which album artwork is going to be fun to watch spinning.

I guess "Listo Medellin" didn't play then since I shut my PC off when I left for work.

wch is okay because I forgot I only like about 1/3 of that song a lot and the rest is kind of weird.

aaaaand now it's down?

seriously, we gotta get this on ilx. it's the killer app we need.

i think it's an FMU guy who made the site; their community found it over the weekend and broke it.

swag cru beat yall to this by several hours lol B-)

its cool but it only really works w/ like at max 5-7 participants ...

otherwise its like one of those parties where ppl fight over the ipod

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.

I'll be around for bit starting...now.

Bump for 4th hour of Zoogz Rift marathon.

Zoogz Rift segueing into alleged experimentalism, catrock revisited, intermittent rain showers and possibly some frogs.

And Motley Crue.

bump.

tirsdagsJAM

It's grungey in here. HALP

night time bump.

that sounds sexual, but it isn't. (or maybe it is.)

Anyone tried this Google+ Hangout thing yet? Apparently you can share YouTube, but also music?

somebody is playing a guitar and making a guitar-face

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

the ~tbrr~ room we did on LR for avantgarde/noise/etc was great for about four days before the software went to shit

id like to do something similar on outloud but the 20mb limit is pretty restrictive on duration and/or quality for a lot of this stuff idk

Do it!