Category Archives: About the Guide

Sneak peak

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Fred Stiening

What the new crawler looks like – told to scan all cumulus stations (Click for clearer image)

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Volunteer “reset”

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The past week or so, substantial progress has been made on improving the tools for quickly reviewing and FIXING out of date information. Brian has been assisting me in this process. Just a recap – with 16,000 radio stations, just … Continue reading →

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Milepost ahead *update*

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Fred Stiening

*update* The 10,000 count on the main page has been replaced with the live count – the number now includes streaming LPFM stations, which made the number go up by about 300

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‘Splain this

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Fred Stiening

If you go to Google Earth View to the East of Bakersfield California out in the fields of Almond trees near this intersection. I count about 30 boxcars all owned by Amtrak. You could empty out a moderate sized city … Continue reading →

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New Optimism

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The StreamingRadioGuide.com domain was going to expire September 20, 2015 if nothing was done. Yesterday, I took the leap of faith and plopped down the $35 to extend the registration for three years, undoubtedly to the great displeasure of every … Continue reading →

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Unable to login?

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Last week I tried an experiment – putting blog. In front of streamingradioguide.com That broke stuff. — modified instructions Click on this link: http://blog.streamingradioguide.com/startingover/ Then go to the bottom of the column on the right, and there should be a … Continue reading →

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Hold on tight – here comes jquery.js

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Fred Stiening

As others have pointed out, the Streaming Radio Guide web site looks like it was written in 1999, because it was 🙂 Pretty much all of the “current” web sites use an open source javascript library called jquery.js. If you … Continue reading →

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Competition is good

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The CEO of Emmis Radio has been on a campaign for a long time to get cell phone makers to enable their capability to listen to FM radio stations (the Wifi connection is itself just an FM receiver, so this … Continue reading →

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IPv6 update

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Well, just when the Internet ™ was working well, here is the bad news. After a decade of putting off the inevitable, the IPv4 address space is officially exhausted. No more 1.2.3.4 for you! Since moving to the linode server, … Continue reading →

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No Mas – OXI !

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The Greeks have declared their independence from the bloodthirsty global bankers. Let the hunger games begin. Some observers note this is largely an inter generational fight. The people who are living in England milking their Greek government pension they started … Continue reading →

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