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The mail bounces at both the support and john addresses with a security alert warning. I’m a little nervous posting the license info here on a public board though.
I have just sent another mail with the license data for my current BA1 installation. This time I used my other address, which I think is the one on file with your computer. This one didn’t immediately bounce, so maybe it will get through.
Is there still anybody to do support for BA1. The e-mail address on the site as well as the one I used last time are bouncing my e-mail. I’m trying to move my BA1 to a new computer. The original has finally died and I moved it to a newer one. But am now enjoying the barker announcements every hour or so. Is it still possible to do this or has the dream finally died?
VLC works on my stream as well. As does Firefox if I turn off the site safety. I’m trying to get HTTPS compliant for the nervous types. There are tons of pages telling me how to get HTTPS on my server, but so far nothing has fixed the problem. I’ve been poking at it for about 2 years now and was hoping somebody who uses BA1 was also hosting their own stream and could tell me that it can be done. Offsite hosts also seem unable to pick up this stream even though I can hear it and have a few listeners who obviously can hear it. So yes, I’m aware of many pages of HTTPS instructions. So far I have not had success using them and am pretty much done with the whole mess. This is my last gasp effort before I just accept limited listenership online via BA1 direct streaming and go back to the ever annoying Icecast 2 server that works when it feels like it.
Things are great now. Thanks to all for their help. License got rid of those PSAs. My thanks to John for fixing things and the little extra bonus for my trouble. Thank you!
It turns out that my many e-mails were going to the spam box. So no matter how loudly you bark, nobody notices you in the spam box.
Many thanks especially to Mr. Klorox and Milky for taking the time to troubleshoot this for me. It works and I am grateful.
You can hear it in operation here:
http://supercfl.ddns.net:20110 and :20111 for higher bit rate. AAC+ of course. Still battling startup changes from rebuilding from scratch this month. We sold the licensed transmitter and are now living on the HD4 channel. But the new owner got all of our previous equipment so I have been busy. Getting the new owner squared away and starting all over again on HD4 has kept me busy since March 1. Which is good.The Chinese transmitters I’m allegedly using are not commercial grade. They’re consumer devices and take a standard stereo audio stream straight out of an iPod or whatever you have. No pre-emphasis issues as it’s built in. I suspect it’s the 50 ms European standard because it’s a little muddy. But with a little extra goose from the HD treble setting, it’s just fine. Good and loud, both, but not as nice as feeding a REAL transmitter some processed baseband audio.
Am streaming to an HD transmitter via the BA1. Also using the processed audio via speaker jack to feed the Chinese transmitter. Running it in mono to decrease multipath from the attic antenna.
I have now sent the License info copied directly from the License info button on BA1 not once but four times. First 3 times to the address on the purchase page. Then again directly to John as a reply to his e-mail to me on his own account.
Still nothing. I don’t know if I’m ending up in the spam folder or something, but I’d really like to get my license to get rid of the barker.
Hey Milky…
John sent me another request for the license info that I’d already sent 3 times. I don’t know where it’s going, perhaps data heaven. It sent it as a reply to that e-mail and am still wondering if it got there. No auto-acknowledgement if there is such a thing.
BA1 works great for us now. We’re running an HD4 station and Internet streaming. AAC is running the main feeds. We’ve found a sweet setting with Plutonium that gives us maximum loudness on those Chinese ‘Part 15 Certified’ transmitters that friends are running the stream on. It seems as loud as the local commercial stations despite the ‘mitter’s built in audio limiting that has to be dealt with.
We found that cranking back the Deep Bass on Plutonium a bit reduces total overmod, allowing more loudness. And by pushing up the HD Treble control, we can mostly overcome the apparent 50us filtering they use.
It’s not the performance I get with my licensed translator’s PTek 300 TX and BA1 baseband input, but it sounds decent for an ‘under $200’ transmitter and a $228 processor. (Computer not included)
Thanks Milkmaster. I have sent a note to that address with what I hope is all of the necessary info.
Yow. I could swear I replied already but it’s not here that I can see.
Yes, the driver you pointed me to worked just fine. Supposedly the same AAC plugin as the one I had, except this one works and the other one did not. Thanks to everybody for posting the information. My trial version works fine. Now if I could just get the license that I paid for, I’d be a happy camper.
It’s simple once you have the right version of the right software, I guess.
Thanks for the input, team.
Yeah, I downloaded the optional AAC codec package and it doesn’t run on the demo. Will fiddle with it a bit more to see if I got the wrong one or something. I know I did this for the BA1 that I’m running on the air right now, but that time, I had no trouble. That forum info is unfortunately gone forever.
Not going to lay down the purchase price until I can get AAC running on the demo, quite simple. And if it’s a ME problem, I’m just stuck since I’m the only ME I have to help out here.
My faith has been shaken a bit, but I’m still running BA1 instead of making a move. I like the way the station sounds on the fringes with the extra boost I get vs. the Optimod running on my companion translator using the same model of transmitter, PTek 300.
Thank you Milkman. I know it can be done because my existing BA1 is doing it as we speak. But it will be pickled in kimchee if I remember the steps, and I can’t find them anymore. Any help locating this info would be much appreciated.
Where oh where has the instruction page gone that shows us how to add AAC encoders to BA1 streaming. It’s lovely that the sales brochure says we can do it. And yes, I did it using those instructions on my first BA1 installation. But I have forgotten how I did it and that info seems to have just vanished from the Internet and the reworked CE forums.
I’m ready to buy another BA1 just for HD and streaming purposes, but won’t do it without the optional AAC running on my demo version first. I know it can be done, so HOW? Anybody??
It could be that the output jack on the RealTek isn’t passing the full audio bandwidth. I have been up this road.
Try using the headphone jack, or installing jumper to the audio jack on the audio card board to pull out audio.
Different capacitors on different output jacks is what I’ve heard as the explanation of this phenomenon. When this happens to me, I get a stereo light, but a high pass filter was apparently sucking out the L+R audio and anything else above maybe 20KHz or so. So no 38kHz stereo difference signal for the radio to process.
