Mediamaster... Is it Gone?

See: http://hiberniaskids.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-stream-your-own-radio-station.html

I have been using MediaMaster to stream the MP3's on my hard drive to SL. Although it has not worked perfectly 100% of the time, it is so easy to use, and of course the best part is that it is Free!! Today I have not been able to access the site at all!! It's as though it has vanished from the face of the earth! Does anyone have any information about this? Thanks in advance!

I have the same prob ... tried to look on some of the techsites but no news about it. I am hoping it is just a tech glitch that hasnt ben picked up by the techs cause of the holiday.

ran across this tidbit:

Bugger

I've not been able to hit the mediamaster.com domain at all for three or four days.

I suspect that little conversation with mediamasters pretty much queered the deal, I think. What a shame, I put a lot of work into my mediamaster radio station.. hours and hours.

Hotspur

Having spent an inordinate amount of time uploading my collection onto their site, I sent off an e-mail to inquire as to the current state of play, visa vie 'My Radio'.

This morning I received an e-mail back from Eric Hixon (eric@mediamaster.com), stating the following

'Yes, we have had some power issues we are trying to deal with at our ISP. It is a pain for us as well.'

Fingers crossed all will soon be well, hope this helps.

Thanks for this, Cain, I was rooting around trying to find a decent email for these guys with no success. Power issues are a drag, but it's not as bad as if they had been hounded out of business.. phew!

H.

It seems very odd that they have been off line this long for a simple power issue.

If nothing else, they would have a front end server up saying so, rather than no response at all.

Their blog says power issue, but why can't they just show a simple front page with that information.

Cool down guys, they are back.
They still have little problems with the load balancer, which means the stream and the frontpage are not running yet, but you can sign in into your radio with:

http://n90.mediamaster.com or http://n91.mediamaster.com

so is anyone able to stream their music from Mediamaster now? I seem to be having problems still.
If not, is there another similar service?

No, it seems they are still working on it.
And no, as far as i know there is no other service like that.

ok - thanks Georg

Hi All

MediaMaster is back up and running so you can listen to your own sounds on your land again.

For those of you still unaware, MediaMaster provides a service that allows you to upload your own music to their site and create a radio station from your collection. You then copy and paste your own 'URL' into your preferences on your land and listen to whatever mix you have created.

At present this service is entirely free, but there is a plan to charge at some time in the future.

MediaMaster can be found at '

If you cant be bothered to register and upload your own music your are more than welcome to have a listen to some of my mix at

' http://n90.mediamaster.com:8000/plist/3000024725/Bamboo2u '

Just copy and paste this URL into your audio settings on your land and have a listen, if you like the sounds then go make your own.

You can also paste the URL into a media player of your choice and listen where ever you go in SL......... I would recommend 'Foobar' as the best free player on the net, just 'Google' it, and download.

Hope this may be of help to some of you.

Thanks for this information, Cain

Nothing as effortless as MediaMaster that I can find, and I have looked!

Still, you may wish to look into Pandora Radio, or MP3Tunes.com. I've tried to stream both of these but they are not really set up to generate a stream like MediaMaster.com is.

My efforts with MP3Tunes: http://hiberniaskids.blogspot.com/2008/06/streaming-music-from-mp3tunes-service.html Don't be misled by this one, it is a flawed solution. It will stream a single song, but not a playlist. I'll make the changes to that post shortly, so I don't mislead anyone.

Pandora, as far as I have found, has NO outgoing stream that can be utilized (without a lot of illegal hacking). They use Flash Players and a unique cataloging system-- you don't really upload YOUR music to a catalog, you build a playlist based upon an initial performer choice and vote on "similar" music as it streams along. Gradually your choices are reflected. Still, it plays in a flash player, and there's no way to legally play this in world-- and no, I'm not interested in hacking it.

H.

Has anyone had success with the old Shoutcast/Winamp setup for this?

edit: a quick search answered my silly question. Never mind! Gaaa *needs more coffee*