Music stats for October 2009

October showed a lot of gains for KONA Radio in listenership levels. After a deep drop in August we’ve rebounded from 11,000 to over 15,000 Total Listener Hours. Those late summer doldrums are far behind us now and it looks like the numbers will keep up for the foreseeable future. Below are the latest stats from the Shoutcast.com stats page. I’ve included other SL stations for comparison. Not all are represented here as they choose not to be listed, use Icecast, or otherwise I’ve never heard about.

SHOUTCAST TTSL REPORT
Report Date: Sun Nov  1 04:00:01 2009

30 day rolling total, taken from 30 days of data

POS          TTSL                    TUNE-INS          5-MIN-TUNE-INS    STATION

===============================================================================

#2514      15,466               30,848            6,798             KONA Radio – Qlty Music 60s 70s & 80s

#3895       8,014.75          24,251            6,469             IndieSpectrum Radio, Indie originals with artists from Second Life

#5007      5,315.25          12,477            4,086             KTOX – Second LIfe

#8901      1,870.5               5,627             2,010             K-TOX Toxian City Radio Second Life – Industrial and More!

#5520      4,505.25          13,736            3,128            WALICED YOUR RADIO IN SECONDLIFE
#9074      1,800                13,165              3,336             SL Live Radio – Live Music Second Life Previews
#10807    1,285.75          18,270            1,145             DBC Radio TV Join us inside Second Life
#12122     1,036.75 8,171             1,425             PUB Radio – your FIRST Choice in SECOND LIFE music

TOTAL      39294.25
HOURS

I would imagine the stations I could not find would easily total another 10-15,000 hours a month.

Now contrast this to the EVE-ONLINE community which has an active community of 300,000 accounts and a typical concurrency of 40,000 players. EVE-ONLINE is the premiere radio station for the community boasting over 2 dozen DJs and a primary music stream.

EVE-ONLINE community station
#1148      45,763            44,176            14,829            EVE-Radio.com: EVE Radio Jukebox
#3643      8,945.5           12,402            5,946             EVE-Radio.com: Wiggles on EvE-Radio
#5368      4,722.75          7,222             2,586             EVE-Radio.com: Helix
#5381      4,708.5           15,979            5,317             EVE-Radio.com: Miss Emopants
#5597      4,400.75          8,742             2,859             EVE-Radio.com: DJ Anarkros
#6467      3,455.75          4,425             1,847             EVE-Radio.com: Whitey Towers
#6777      3,167.75          6,856             2,382             EVE-Radio.com: EVE-Radio: DJ Moz
#6884      3,059.25          5,782             2,121             EVE-Radio.com: GRN – Eve-Radio LIVE 2
#6928      3,031             8,713             3,062             EVE-Radio.com: WorldEater
#7398      2,681.25          11,237            3,595             EVE-Radio.com: DJ Sam
#7782      2,431.75          6,937             2,342             EVE-Radio.com: DJ LMP zwntana! (live 1)
#8793      1,914.75          4,010             1,433             EVE-Radio.com: eve-radio | Live 2
#8817      1,906.5           3,697             1,318             EVE-Radio.com: DJ WarMaster
#9005      1,823.25          3,538             1,200             EVE-Radio.com: EVE Radio
#9122      1,784.5           9,208             3,055             EVE-Radio.com: DJ Erkenfresh Live on EVE Radio
#9141      1,776.5           3,419             1,216             EVE-Radio.com: DJ Dunewolf
#9184      1,762             3,191             1,114             EVE-Radio.com: EvE Radio LIVE 1:
#9234      1,745.25          3,844             1,184             EVE-Radio.com: The Adragon Technochrist Show
#9599      1,615.25          6,550             1,985             EVE-Radio.com: EVE-Radio.com
#10136     1,453.25          3,372             1,118             EVE-Radio.com: DJ Kraven’s Uplink
#10324     1,395.75          3,757             1,716             EVE-Radio.com: Minerdave-a-saur on Eve-Radio
#10383     1,382             2,626             1,025             EVE-Radio.com: EVE-Radio Live 1: DJ Spuffy
#10426     1,374             3,042             1,014             EVE-Radio.com: Forty-Two
#10863     1,274             0                 0                 EVE-Radio.com: DJ MrNix
#10947     1,249.25          0                 0                 EVE-Radio.com: Eve Radio 2 – DJ Hemlock
#11399     1,155             7,804             2,662             EVE-Radio.com: LamsterBunny
#11763     1,092.5 0                 0                 EVE-Radio.com: JusJ4ck

TOTAL HOURS =   111,071

Perhaps it’s the fact the Eve community is closer knit and pursuing the same goals and interest that allows this one station to do so well in a smaller population than SL? Similar attempts at a Grid wide music service has failed (Phreak, Cyrscomm) as they simply failed to gain traction and could not support themselves. My station gets the majority of it’s listeners from iTunes. While SL’s population is very diverse you’d think the stations here would do much better. I think it’s a matter of exposure or a lack there of. Getting the word out about your station isn’t easy as the media in SL doesn’t reach masses, only select portions of the population. I can’t really complain much as my station does support itself but I’ll take listeners where I can get them

 

DJ Ravishal Bentham at the Nantucket Barn Halloween Party

Join us for two great hours of spooky, scary and fun music as I rock the barn in Nantucket from 6-8pm SLT on 29 October 2009. Wear a costume and please, no scripted weapons or nudity.

For a larger pic: http://www.zooomr.com/z/photos/zoom/8421623/size-16/

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nantucket/26/178/22

If you can’t make it in world then please tune us in via the website at http://www.konastream.com or via iTunes in the Retro 70s category in Radio.

 

The Coolest guy ever

I don’t know how this commercial ever slipped passed by me.

It’s so great seeing the most popular, accomplished golfer have a bit of fun with the sport and a classic comedy. Way to go Tiger Woods!

On an unrelated note an FYI for you KONA Radio fans. iTunes has reshuffled its stations listings with the new 9.0 client. In the new client you can find KONA Radio in the Retro 70s section.

 

Pooky is my star :)

In response to The Guild’s avatar video SL’s very own Pooky Amsterdam of The First Question & The Dating Casino has starred in her own video reply. First is the Guild’s video for those who have not seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU

And this is Pooky’s response. She can sing too!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S6gMw0X4gg

 

Sunday Listener Party at the KONA Radio Studios

Where? : KONA Radio Studios SLURL http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/125/56/23

When? : Every Sunday night from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM SLT

We have a FULL PLATE tonight on KONA Radio’s Sunday Listener party. I’ll be playing a full weeks worth of programming from The Onion and Time Warp Radio. That, along with the 100 Word Stories, 3 episodes of Today in Music History, and several new tunes from artist like Van Halen, the Four Tops and Status Quo will mean the program will run for about 90 or so minutes tonight.  No worries about running late as we have a LOT of content!

Come by and see the famous Italian leg lamp too!

 

Listening to KONA Radio on the iPhone

I’ve recently acquired an iPhone 3GS and all I can say is “WOW”. It is an awesome piece of technology that can handle multimedia just fine thank you! Naturally I got the unlimited data plan and began taking it through it’s paces with streaming music. There are several fine choices for the right price of “Free”.

FStream: Supports a wide range of formats such as MP3, Ogg, AAC, & WMA. It also can search a few directories for music such as Shoutcast and iTunes. You can find KONA Radio under the Golden Oldies section. FStream is especially good for mobile listening as you can increase the buffer size and number of attempted reconnects if the connection drops. Go here for more details APPSAFARI.com.

FREE

Shoutcast: An app from AOL/Shoutcast that allows you to search the shoutcast listings. Very basic. Download it from here: SHOUTCAST on iPhone

FREE

WWW.MOODIO.FM : A rather innovative solution to a common problem. Many stations broadcast in a format that your media player cannot receive or the bit rate is too high. This is a website that will receive the station for you and trans code it to a lower bit rate AAC formatted stream. The stream is then played over your Safari browser on the iPhone so you can collapse the browser and run other non audio based apps. If the station you want is not listed you can add it your self or request that it be added for you. To add KONA to your mobile page list just search for KONA Radio.

to quote their FAQ:

What phones are supported by Moodio?

Almost every modern phone with internet and multimedia capabilities should be able to receive radio through Moodio. What you basically need is a phone that supports 3GPP/3GPP2-streaming and understands the AACPlus-codec. This includes popular phones from manufacturers like BlackBerry, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, etc. Apple’s (non-3GPP-compatible) iPhone is also supported.

Windows Mobile does not natively support 3GPP streaming. This means that Moodio won’t work on these phones, except for the few models where the manufacturer installed a 3GPP compatible player, like HTC does on their more recent phones. For more info about the HTC player and how to install it on your own Windows phone, look here.

FREE

If you’re on Windows Mobile or Palm OS you can listen in via a wide variety of  media players such as Pocket Tunes. The Palm Pre will stream MP3 shoutcast with it’s native media player.

For your parcel in SL use this URL:     http://gold.slserver.com:8030

JUNE Ratings for selected Second Life based* radio stations.

SHOUTCAST TTSL REPORT
Report Date: Wed Jul  1 04:00:02 2009
** Top stations by TTSL
30 day rolling total, taken from 30 days of data
POS            TTSL              TUNE-INS    5-MIN-TUNE-INS    STATION
=======================================================================
#2634      14,044            31,426            7,527            KONA Radio – Qlty Music 60s 70s & 80s
#3408      9,372.75          36,420       10,247           SLR2 – Second Life Radio
#6042      3,659.5           18,198            5,915             Live Radio SL
#8164      2,035.25          7,361             2,990             K-TOX Toxian City Radio Second Life – Industrial and More!
#11332     1,077.5           4,244             1,548             K-TOX Toxian City Radio Second Life  – Industrial And more!
#7214      2,587.5           6,330              2,569             BZoO WorldWide Radio
#7985      2,127.25          15,268           5,807            Reggae Romance….100% Vibes, Soca, Dancehall, Roots, Second Life
#10805     1,176.75          8,225             1,799             **T1 Radio **

* Stations that maintain a nominal presence and exhibit some degree of social interaction in the virtual world of Second Life.

Kicking ass and taking names! KONA is sitting on top with the nearest station being the German SLR2 station. A very distant 3rd is the Live Radio SL featuring SL artist exclusively. Closely following is K-TOX based in the Midian sims and favored by many post apocalypse RPers. Next is BzoO Radio described as “HOT RoCK DaNCe Radio ~ DOiN da House Blues Rock Funk Club Dance!!”  Filling out the bottom is Reggae Romance and **T1 Radio**.

There are many other radio stations in SL but they did not make this list because their listenership was less than 1,000 hours per month or they are Icecast based and thus listed elsewhere.

 

Something silly

So, as a child of the 70s I had to have a cool Cylon Centurion avatar. Add to that a memory of a song by Lipps Inc. circa 1980. You get this :