Wątek: something i've been wondering about radio streams for a while

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1 z 12: Zseli22

Hi all. Let me explain what i'm trying to look for.
So bac when Clango was a thing, I could connect to a radio station, pause it, wait for 12 hours, possibly even longer sometimes, and when I resumed, it put me back to exactly where i paused, twelve hours ago. Then, I could skim through the last twelve hours of the stream and find out if there was anything intresting i wanted to record from it. I did this quite frequently in fact.
So, since klango died, i've tried looking for something that will let me have this functionality of buffering a stream into memory or something, for as long as you wanted. I tried connecting to streams of the radio station in question with elten's builtin player, as well as fubar2000, but could only pause, and wen i ddid pause, it stopped, not letting me hear what happened just a few seconds ago. It may have to do with the stream itself, not the player, but Klango's player was able to do this regardless of what stream it was connecting to.
So, is there anything that will let me do this? Thanks.

05.07.2018 15:43

2 z 12: railwayguy

I don't think so. Klango seem to have a automatically recording option which automatically was recording the radio station while it was playing. As far as I know, it was the only player that was having that option. That's why it was so great.

05.07.2018 16:46

3 z 12: Louisa

I wonder if it would be possible to put that function in elten? I agree that feature was very useful. I mis it sometimes. But don't know of anything else that does the same.

05.07.2018 22:15

4 z 12: railwayguy

Yes, it would be very nice if Elten would have that feature. I found it so nice too the way Klango was programmed.

05.07.2018 22:26

5 z 12: Zseli22

Good news. Just a few days ago I found out, that klango is still capable of entering custom URL's from the guest account, so in theory the functionality is not lost, you just need to find a stream to connect to, since the media catalog is no more.


16.07.2018 11:00

6 z 12: railwayguy

Do you then still have Klango installed on your computer? I removed Klango shortly before it was shut down.

16.07.2018 21:02

7 z 12: Louisa

I also removed my coppy. Didn't see the point of keeping it. Although the sound quality was better than elten, but that's another story.

17.07.2018 01:27

8 z 12: railwayguy

That's right. What's the point of keeping a program that doesn't exist any longer.
I don't know about the sound quality of Elten since I can't have access to the media catalog; although it must be said that the sound quality of a radio station does not always depend from the program you are using. It mostly depends from the URL type the radio station is using and some radio stations are not always using the best URL types.

17.07.2018 02:11

9 z 12: Zseli22

I keep klango on my computer for a few reasons, one of them being the fact that i was too lazy to remove it, and never knew when it would come in handy for, maybe checking file bitrates or just listening to a playlist of files. That's one weird thing about Elten,it's playlist management. I keep entering a playlist i made like a month ago, and i can't close it.
And now that I know that connecting to streams and being able to go back and record things is an option, i do that with Klango as well.


17.07.2018 11:18

10 z 12: railwayguy

Well, for me, these would be no reasons to keep a player like Klango that doesn't exist any longer. In the mean time, you can always use another player such as, Winamp, or I-Tunes to play your files until Elten 2.3 will come out. I'm sure elten will then work much better than it does now.

17.07.2018 17:06

11 z 12: Louisa

By sound quality, I ment the music, I listen too, doesn't come across as clearly on elten as on klango. I might just try out klango, and see how the stream works. Although I'm not sure how to use klango to access a stream. I listen to the bbc, and there is already a programme for that. Sorry for the very long post.

17.07.2018 19:27

12 z 12: thespyde

Longer posts are better than shorter ones in these forum-type things. If you read through a bunch of short messages, it does get annoying. Now, back to the regularly scheduled topic at hand.
Charles Wells
17.07.2018 20:08