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Comment on Hackers steal Facebook Pages – creator loses administrator rights by Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:11:56 +0000

Yea. I kind of have the same issue. The band I was with created a page and then let people outside the band manage it. Bad idea. I guess the admin’s page was hacked and now we dont have access to update or delete the page. SUCK BIG TIME..

Comment on Hackers steal Facebook Pages – creator loses administrator rights by Paul van Jaarsveld

Paul van Jaarsveld — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:40:29 +0000

This is quite an old post, but still adding my 2 cents. It´s pretty simple. You either leaked your username and passwords somewhere, or you clicked on a link that took you to a page that looked like facebook, or to an app in facebook that asked you to re enter / auth your facebook account. In some cases you could have used a third party plugin where you have to enter your facebook details and they leaked your details to the hackers. Lastly, you could have been using facebook through a non secure http instead of https connection, and your data was intercepted. You could also have been keylogged if there was spyware and keyloggers installed on your machine via a virus. Really lots of things that can go wrong. best anti virus is not to use windoze at all and then it´s a matter of common sense on facebook and other websites.

Comment on by Linda Kristina

Linda Kristina — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:55:22 +0000

Thank you for the great advice.

Linda

Comment on how to stream your music into Second Life — six software source clients compared by Bail Bonds Los Angeles

Bail Bonds Los Angeles — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:52:09 +0000

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Comment on add a ReverbNation widget to a wordpress blog post by the undeniable

the undeniable — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:34:07 +0000

yeah.. followed your directions and nada. just posting html script. been at this for days now trying to figure out how to post our reverbnation store. i’ve read so many articles and none of the directions seem to be working- OR i am just retarded.

Comment on How do I send my music to listeners in Second Life? Shoutcast, Icecast, and streaming explained by Joe Bear

Joe Bear — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:46:15 +0000

Hi Garry -
Have you been inworld? If you have a parcel of land, you could certainly set it’s media URL to your stream. That would be a start.

Comment on How do I send my music to listeners in Second Life? Shoutcast, Icecast, and streaming explained by Garry

Garry — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:16:46 +0000

I run a station playing all genres of dance music, i would like to offer our stream to second life for free and are more than willing to help with any advertisement.

contact djgarryc@live.co.uk

http://www.corruptradio.net

Garry

Comment on how to stream your music into Second Life — six software source clients compared by David

David — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:10:59 +0000

thanks for the info Joe

Comment on how to stream your music into Second Life — six software source clients compared by Joe Bear

Joe Bear — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:05:35 +0000

Hi David.

Well, this post is focused upon streaming source clients. This is the part that gets your audio shipped up to a streaming server, so the guests at your venue can pick up your stream, by means of the Parcel Media URL. The fact that WinAmp has the Shoutcast plugin streaming source client, rather than a standalone streaming source client, kind of muddies the picture. However, the music/audio creation application and the streaming source client are functionally two different things.

You are likely bumping up against a limitation of WinAmp as a music/audio creation application. WinAmp was originally designed merely as a means of a computer owner to listen to mp3′s on that computer. The original vision likely did not include any sort of DJing. Accordingly, it handles a single audio source at a time, with no ability to mix in (e.g.) a mic signal alongside the music.

What you are needing is a more full-featured music/audio creation application. There are many from which to choose, which I’ll cover in a bit. However, I should point out that your current solution of WinAmp with the Shoutcast plugin is both a music/audio creation application (WinAmp) with an integrated streaming source client (Shoutcast plugin). Accordingly, you’ll need to address both these requirements.

Any of the standalone streaming source clients listed above should work for you. As mentioned, the job of the streaming source client is to take the pre-mixed audio generated by your music/audio creation application, encode it into mp3, and send it to the streaming server up in the cloud. Butt would work fine for this. However, your music/audio creation application needs to generate a pre-mixed stereo signal — music and mic — with which to feed butt.

There are many configurations that would allow you to do this. One way would be to employ a hardware mixer external to your computer. You could continue to use WinAmp (but not use the Shoutcast plugin with it).
- Run a cable from the headphone/speaker out on your computer to a stereo input on the mixer.
- Feed your external microphone to another channel on the mixer.
- Then run a cable from the output of the mixer to the line in on your computer.
- Lastly, configure butt to get its input from the computer’s line in.

In this manner, butt would be seeing the pre-mixed audio from WinAmp and the mic, and sending it on to the happy listeners in SL. You could pick up a small mixer from craigslist or a pawn shop suitable for the job in the $10 – $20 range. Add another couple dollars for cables, and you’d be in business.

As I said, this is merely one scenario that would work. There are many other options.

Comment on how to stream your music into Second Life — six software source clients compared by David

David — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:35:29 +0000

I use Winamp at the moment. But can’t talk on it and SAM4 is not something I want to spend the money on right now.Do any of the above programs let you voice i know alot of clubs in second life want there DJ’s to talk.