Where does RM broadcast from?

DeactiveCarib · Post by **DeactiveCarib** » December 12, 2004 5:20 pm

just out of curiousity, where does Radio Margaritaville broadcast from?

conched · Post by **conched** » December 12, 2004 6:38 pm

I'll take a stab at it...Bradenton, FL

VB for Buffett · Post by **VB for Buffett** » December 12, 2004 8:04 pm

my house....

Key Lime Lee · Post by **Key Lime Lee** » December 12, 2004 8:15 pm

Are you curious about where the shows are physically recorded or where it streams from?

conched · Post by **conched** » December 12, 2004 8:41 pm

Key Lime Lee wrote:Are you curious about where the shows are physically recorded or where it streams from?

Now I'm curious how it all works. I know it changes from time to time, but where is it streaming from and where is it recorded? Seems like Steve is working all the time.

Sometimes I have a picture in my mind of Steve sitting up all night like "Are You Out There" in Dar's song.

"Calling Olson, Calling Memphis
I am calling, can you hear this?
I was out here listening all the time
And I will write this down
and then I will not be alone again yeah
I was out here listening
Oh yeah I was out here listening
Oh yeah I am out here listening all the time." ~~Dar Williams

CaptDave · Post by **CaptDave** » December 12, 2004 9:25 pm

could be that Steve just really likes a lot of coffee....

DeactiveCarib · Post by **DeactiveCarib** » December 12, 2004 9:45 pm

Key Lime Lee wrote:Are you curious about where the shows are physically recorded or where it streams from?

basically, where in the world is steve when he is talking on RM . . .where does it stream from?

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » December 12, 2004 9:57 pm

DsilCaribe wrote:
Key Lime Lee wrote:Are you curious about where the shows are physically recorded or where it streams from?
basically, where in the world is steve when he is talking on RM . . .where does it stream from?

Detroit. Weird, huh?

j/k.

Brown Eyes · Post by **Brown Eyes** » December 12, 2004 10:26 pm

Man, y'all make it rough for a kid to get a straight answer around here!

HsvParrothead · Post by **HsvParrothead** » December 12, 2004 10:30 pm

I read somewhere a few months back it is from a studio in Orlando

'course take it with a grain of salt... I read it on the internet

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » December 12, 2004 10:31 pm

Brown Eyes wrote:Man, y'all make it rough for a kid to get a straight answer around here!

Just my way of saying I don't know...

HsvParrothead · Post by **HsvParrothead** » December 12, 2004 10:32 pm

CaptainP wrote:
Brown Eyes wrote:Man, y'all make it rough for a kid to get a straight answer around here!
Just my way of saying I don't know...

and even if he did... his photographic memory is out of film

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » December 12, 2004 10:33 pm

HsvParrothead wrote:
CaptainP wrote:
Brown Eyes wrote:Man, y'all make it rough for a kid to get a straight answer around here!
Just my way of saying I don't know...
and even if he did... his photographic memory is out of film

And I can't afford the processing!

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » December 12, 2004 10:33 pm

HsvParrothead wrote:I read somewhere a few months back it is from a studio in Orlando

'course take it with a grain of salt... I read it on the internet

I think it used to be Orlando, but it has been moved.....I don't remember where in FL it is now.

doxadive · Post by **doxadive** » December 12, 2004 10:39 pm

i just got back from my b-day trip to key west and one of the things i did before i left was to email Rm and ask if they were in key west and i would like to see them, they arent, there are in west palm beach

CaptDave · Post by **CaptDave** » December 13, 2004 12:24 am

I had heard it was out of the Orlando Margaritaville, but then it moved....
they seem to be doing stuff from everywhere recently...

Ilph · Post by **Ilph** » December 13, 2004 1:00 pm

As for Steve being on all the time, I'm pretty sure that he voicetracks (or pre-records) a lot of the stuff and then it is plugged into the computer and it runs with the songs. A lot of radio stations do this.

conched · Post by **conched** » December 13, 2004 3:58 pm

Ilph wrote:As for Steve being on all the time, I'm pretty sure that he voicetracks (or pre-records) a lot of the stuff and then it is plugged into the computer and it runs with the songs. A lot of radio stations do this.

Will someone explain the technical side of live streaming? When the concert is live, I assume someone at the concert site dials up and send the audio feed to Steve who controls the stopping and starting of it to some extent. How is the audio sent...in what kind of file?

How does all that work? I read a little about how to put streaming audio/video on your web site. Is that basically what Steve does and then we just sign on to the web site (or is it to a server) and capture the feed with whichever player we choose? And how?

How massive a server is there to handle that much bandwidth? Or is that even the way it works?

In this case, "questions are the easy part."

Wonder if Radiomargaritaville is the most listened to radio station on the net? Doesn't it cost Jimmy a lot to provide the station?

CaptDave · Post by **CaptDave** » December 13, 2004 4:43 pm

Yeah, thats pretty much how its done, I think....
The signal(s) go to a streaming server from the source location (could be concert, venue, or studio), and then it is 'posted' to the web... when you log in, it creates the stream to you from that streaming server...

I know that bandwidth has gotten a lot cheaper over the years, but technically, Jimmy (or someone) pays for every stream to every listener... more listeners=more bandwidth... maybe thats why the 'top' stream is only 40K or so... maybe they could offer a 'paid' stream to people if they got to go to higher quality sound...

not sure if RM is #1 or not, would be neat to see where it ranks...

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AlbatrossFlyer · Post by **AlbatrossFlyer** » December 13, 2004 5:32 pm

recently RM blurted out they were coming from the sarasota area.