LiquidLounge

Posted on December 1, 2014 by That British Bloke
That British Bloke
Heart of the LiquidLounge media empire

Heart of the LiquidLounge media empire

Do you want to listen to a radio station which plays an eclectic selection of music, most of which you’ve never heard before?

Hmm. Thought not. But if you do try LiquidLounge, broadcast from the heart of my NAS here @Bloke Acres to The World using the facility of The Interwebs.

Actually, this isn’t so difficult, but it does mean running a server on your home network and threading ports through your router/modem to enable the outside world access to your marvellous good taste.

Speaking of which, The Most Marvellous Time Of The Year is fast approaching so LiquidLounge will be shifting into Christmas Season Mode. Sorry about that. But Mrs Bloke likes it.

Anyway, LiquidLounge is currently run on an old laptop running Win7pro using WinAmp, ShoutCast and ShoutCast GUI.

You can listen to it here or see the last twenty tracks on its playlist here.

I’ll look at each of these elements in detail in other posts.

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Getting A Music Player In Your Sidebar

Posted on November 30, 2014 by That British Bloke
That British Bloke

Just had an interesting issue getting a music player in the side bar to actually fit.

Adding is easy enough from your WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets.

I just added a text widget into the sidebar. This enables you to add text and/or html script into the sidebar.

The script to show a music player is very simple:


<audio controls="controls">
<source src="YOUR MUSIC SOURCE FILE LOCATION">
</source>

The problem was this script led to a player bar which wanted to be around 450 pixels wide. However, the sidebar is only 200 pixels wide so half the player bar overflowed further to the right.

Fortunately, the WordPress sidebar will also recognise more sophisticated html so I was able to include an inline css command at the beginning of the widget – HOWEVERWIDEYOUWANTITTOBE=numerical value in pixels:


	<style>
	audio { width: HOWEVERWIDEYOUWANTITTOBEpx; }
	</style>

There doesn’t seem to be any need to include any other html script.

Hope this works for you.

Next, I need to figure out how to get my tag cloud to stay in the sidebar …

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That Grumpy British Bloke Is Back

Posted on November 30, 2014 by That British Bloke
That British Bloke

Yes. I’m back on the blog.

It’s been a while, but I’ve just been too absorbed in facebook and kind of lost the plot.

But Oh! That British Bloke is back on a new platform. It’s even on my own server, so let’s see if I can learn to handle WordPress.

oldblog

Just in case anyone was wondering the old school blog is still available here, but as you can see, it’s been pretty neglected for a while.

So as we head for another new year I’m going to be pontificating about the usual stuff; cycling, listening to music, Living In America, and a couple of new things. Well, not so much new as resurrected, like trains and modelling and stuff.

So far, I’ve managed to adapt the page theme, so it won’t look identical to any other blog out there. I’m not too happy with the graphics and colours yet, but that will change.

BTW: You can listen to what I’m mostly listening to today by clicking the player over in the right hand column. And should you feel the urge try LiquidLounge, a fairly random selection from my music library. Sometimes I listen to it and I’m convinced I have the greatest musical taste on any planet. Other days I wonder if I should start deleting big time. You can see the last 20 tracks played by LiquidLounge here.

Oh well, let’s see how it goes.

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