Hacker's Family � FreeCast

Trac for FreeCast

alban — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:55:59 +0000

To make easier the FreeCast development, we’ve installed a Trac instance for FreeCast.

Trac is a software project management used by a lot of projects.

What are the changes for Freecast ?

Wiki

The Trac wiki will be the FreeCast Development Wiki. The Freecast User Wiki stays in place.

Tickets

The FreeCast Bugzilla issues have been migrated. The FreeCast issues are now managed by Trac.

Timeline

Now the FreeCast development progress can be easily followed via the FreeCast timeline page (or via the FreeCast timeline RSS feed).

FreeCast joins the other projects managed by the Tryphon Trac like AudioBank or JustRecord.

FreeCast start page fixed

alban — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:39:04 +0000

Due to a php upgrade, the FreeCast start page was broken for few days. We fixed the php code this afternoon. We apology for this technical problem.

How to customize the FreeCast GUI ?

alban — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:45:58 +0000

The FreeCast GUI used by network listeners can be graphically customized. In this way, deployers can integrate the FreeCast client with their graphic charter. The FreeCast client can become a natural prolongation of the broadcaster website.

A new page in the FreeCast wiki deals with the customization of the FreeCast GUI . It should answer to this frequent asked question.

French radio Galaxie FM 95.3 is testing FreeCast

alban — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:24:34 +0000

The french radio Galaxie FM 95.3 is testing several peer-to-peer streaming solutions to improve its web broadcasting. Listeners can start the Galaxie FM live streaming with the three tested solutions : FreeCast, P2P Radio and Peercast.

At this time, about 300 FreeCast nodes have been started to listen the Galaxie FM streaming.

Thanks to Kapzy from the Galaxie FM team for his usefull feedback.

New FreeCast wiki

alban — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:40:28 +0000

The FreeCast wiki has been deployed to replace the previous single and long wiki page. This wiki is available on http://wiki.tryphon.org/freecast and powered by DokuWiki.

Several new pages have been created to complete or re-organize the previous wiki page, like a first tutorial to start FreeCast audio network with oddcast or documentation about features present in the next FreeCast release.

FreeCast links

alban — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:57:23 +0000

A Delicious FreeCast bookmark has been created to collect FreeCast references on the web. You can register the associated RSS feed.

The tag cloud and last links are available in the FreeCast references wiki page.

FreeCast and “les troph�es du libre”

alban — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:25:36 +0000

FreeCast is one of the sixty free software projects which participate to the Troph�es du Libre 2006. FreeCast is registered in the category Games/Multimedia like another peer-to-peer maker Azureus.

The official results will be announced in november 2006.

FreeCast 20060629 release

alban — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:32:31 +0000

This new FreeCast release fixes several bugs created or actualized after user feedbacks. In this list, several new features like the volume control and the stream metadata display.

For more information, read the complete changelog.

FreeCast in test for Jamendo Radio

alban — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:41:15 +0000

The Jamendo team has started a FreeCast test to support the future Jamendo Radio.

You can test the Jamendo Radio by a simple click.

You can use the last release candidate to test the new features. Start the FreeCast Swing node and use this configuration URL.

Many thanks to the Jamendo beta testers for their feedbacks.

Update: the Radio Jamento tests are stopped for the moment. The FreeCast network is silent.

FreeCast 20060628 release candidate

alban — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:21:22 +0000

The next FreeCast release fixes several bugs created or actualized after user feedbacks. In this list, several new features like the volume control and the stream metadata display.

To test this release candidate, download the 20060628 distribution and start a FreeCast Swing node (use the default configuration).