Add Era Radio to iEra? Yes or No?
 

Since there is an "Era Radio" on the computer version of era, would that be a good idea? Would it be hard to do?
I think that this would be a neat little idea would be because I love to listen to the radio while I am playing video games.
If this would be an impossible idea to do, please tell me ( because I do not know that much about development of certain scripts )

I think on iOS there should be enhanced comaptability with music apps like Pandora , iHeartRadio, Spotify, the music app itself,etc. since alot of people who play tend to listen via those sources in mobile. Most mobile devices also have some decent focus on music or are music-focused devices from the start.

Might irritate people who don't want to have sounds while playing era.
And it's no longer called iEra, it's now just plain Era. GraalOnline Era.

This gave me an idea.

We can do an MP3 player, but it will only play the music available on the Radio furniture. Don't know if we can add more music to it because I don't know much about copyrights.

Yes! Absolutely I support this. +rep creative sir!

It would be cool to to have a function where people could talk on graal too.....that would defeat the purpose of type chat, but it's an idea..

iZone 133.7

well, the thing is, that on the Pc version of Era, there is an option to turn off the radio, so I do not think that it would be that big of a deal if they include that.

The copyrights would not be a problem, if you read the little npc's message that is located right next to the radio when you are in Trixta's party shop, it says that iEra admins get the songs off of sources that are not copyrighted (or something like that) which means that you can search any songs that you know of on the internet and download them for free off of secure IP adresses. (such as dilandeu, or MP3Skull)

That's why we need more sfx staffs.

"This just in. A band of noobs attacked Tachi Zone! Everyone go to Tachi zone for a fun, murderous time! Back to you Jeni with our local weather broadcast!"

This could be a creative way of broadcasting events and Gang-related stuff.

Right now how Era Radio is setup, a direct stream could not be established with mobile clients. It is a mobile client issue. For example, if you were in the Madrox club when iZone 133.7 was on-air, you couldn't hear the actual stream being broadcast unless you were on a PC client. The best idea currently in this thread of creating a sudo radio station would be to use Johnaudi's idea by using the music currently used in their radio furniture piece.

Actually, there is a way to get microphone streaming to work for staff members.
Two solutions, staff upload an mp3 file containing them saying something, then injects them to the radio.

Second solution would be to have a custom webserver, saving a stream of microphone into bytes, and a Gs2 script retrieving the bytes and decoding them into notes/music/sound. Though the live data sent is intense and can cause major lag while communicating between Graal and the web.

Cool!

From what I understand, something like this isn't possible due to Apple limitations and such. I could be wrong though.

PC had this in V5, but with the new client that Stefan has yet to finish, there's no option to mess with microphone settings.

I think we've had enough experiences with Graal radios to know that this is a bad idea.

Yes

We should get to listen to our own music library, too. Similar to what GTA did with the radio.

Maybe just broadcast that it's going on now, so get to your computers.

You could get an Internet radio station, put it in a radio app like TuneIn or Pandora or something and use multitask to play it in the background. But then there would be copyright issues and monthly payments and people would slowly abandon it.

not sure of the limitations of the graal app's ability to read files on the host device (i.e. mobile phone), but it would be more worthwhile for stefan to add the feature to delegate a music folder (on said device) as a source for a scripted MP3 player.

That way, you didn't have to worry about "copyright issues" because, presumably, you would just be using the graal app as a resource for music-playback from "owned" songs on a client's device. Nothing would ever actually touch the server.

also, just to note, this is terrible advice and should not be listened to.

Why don't you guys just turn off the sound and in-game music and play your phone's music? It's literally that easy