Before my friend Jeremy left to be a Mac Genius in Houston, he did the bulk of the work to upgrade my iMac (Indigo G3): from a 20 GB drive to a whopping 80! Then I installed Mac OS X 10.2 Server to get going with QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) to launch KMAG with a playlist of over 2000 MP3 files.
Now it has played for seven years, over 934,000 songs and works from a playlist of 7685 unique tunes. My only complaint is the lack of decent bandwidth from AT&T to share it with friends or listen to it from a location other than my house.
Soon it will hit one million songs according to the special log I’ve been saving. I should throw a little party that achievement. My more immediate goal is getting the playlist up to 8000 songs (I’m behind by over 1300) and bringing covers down to being less than 10 percent of its content, it has been hovering around 13.
When we get a new car, I would like to buy a large enough iPod to store an exact copy of the stream’s contents as a way of giving the Austin radio stations the virtual finger along with Nancy Sinatra who wrote a whiney piece in the New York Times of artist performance payments.