Posted on 2024-07-19

MixRemix Radio

I do a weekly show on anonradio called MixRemix - Creative Commons Jazz.

The songs are selected from my Creative Commons Jazz library at

https://jazz.mixremix.cc/

I have an algorithm that picks the music and it's a random algorithm. I pick 6 albums randomly and then I randomize the tracks. I wrote the code in php. It also writes the text file listing the albums and dating the show.

The show is two hours long and it is possible that 6 albums wouldn't be long enough but it hasn't happened yet.

My agency starts and ends with adding material to the library. (and making sure the shows are long enough)

The library is currently 21.3 Gigabytes of mp3 files. Every so often I go into a frenzy of searching for and adding albums. If you have released Creative Commons jazz let me know.

640 meg holds 1 hour of .wav files so approximately 10 hours of mp3 files. So 2/3 of a Gig is approximately 10 hours of music. In total around 320 hours of jazz.

Each week I run the program, check that it's long enough, and then I upload to a linux instance on the google cloud for streaming to anonradio and to the internet archive for public listening.

Here's the MixRemix Radio collection on the Internet Archive sorted with the most recent shows at the top.

https://archive.org/details/MixRemix?sort=-date

This collection also includes shows from when I ran a 24/7 streaming station from at home. I may do this again sometime but I have been awfully busy lately.

The library is also available in a web player that supports playlists.

https://jazz.mixremix.cc/music.htm

Click Random and then play and it randomizes the whole library.

Click Music Folder Player for the player code. It's a plain text program licensed AGPL-3.0. By plain text I mean it doesn't use a database. Music Folder Player is written and maintained by ltguillaume. It's on GitHub and Codeberg.

My generate the show code is very specific so it is unreleased. If you want a copy email hairylarry@gmail.com.

Thanks