Aircheck hosting...anyone have any ideas?

[redhat]

I got the website fired up again thinking I would put some airchecks up there for people to download.  Turns out there is a limitation on file size, even though the hosting is unlimited bandwidth.

Someone mentioned using torrents for distribution, but then you need a seedbox somewhere which is more money (this thing doesn't create income, BTW).

I really don't want to run a webserver at the house for obvious reasons, but does anyone else have any suggestions.  Free is always nice, but I live in the real world too

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[Oliver]

Redhat,
is the undstanding correct that your current host provider has a file download limit for the website?

[ChrisSmolinski]

Would archive.org work for your purposes?

[redhat]

There is some clause in the  web hosting TOS that prohibits web accounts from being used as a 'file repository' hence why it runs great for 30 seconds then times out.  FLAC aircheck run about 1.3 GB, MP3 ones around 300 MB.  I don't really know much about archive .org, outside of some recordings of us out there.  When putting something like this out there, the joys of copyright and fair use often get slung around.

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[John Poet]

Google Drive gives you 15 gigabytes file storage, free.  You can create download links to what you have stored in your account, for private sharing or public posting.  Haven't seen any file size limits but I haven't used it much yet.

Think you may need to get a Gmail address/Google account first.

https://www.google.com/drive/

There are a lot of similar type accounts, Microsoft, etc, but 15 gb seems the usual large limit for free accounts.

[redhat]

We'll try archive.org and see how it goes.  I put the January 2nd show up there.

https://archive.org/details/XFM122016Show192K

And also the Halloween show with a bunch of callers.

https://archive.org/details/XFM1112015HalloweenShow192K

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[joewo]

Why not make the aircheck into a video....a few pictures of the audio equipment and transmitter etc popped on top of the audio and post to youtube. 

[Kilokat7]

Why not make the aircheck into a video....a few pictures of the audio equipment and transmitter etc popped on top of the audio and post to youtube. 

Because YouTube's copyright flags would blow up on something like this resulting in the video being banned in every country on Earth due to copyright infringement.  I can't even post a static laced DX recording anymore that contains music without the copyright flags being tripped and the video banned in many countries.  I have yet to figure out a way around this.

[redhat]

Why not make the aircheck into a video....a few pictures of the audio equipment and transmitter etc popped on top of the audio and post to youtube.  

Someday when all this is in the history books and I'm out of the country (on a private island preferably) I will

For obvious reasons it's not a good idea to do that.  Besides, I thought DX'ers enjoyed the mystery of it

Kilo, do you still have issues if it's a 'private' post, ie one that will not show up in searches?

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[Kilokat7]

IMHO, the mystery indeed is a large part my enjoyment in this hobby.

Regarding YouTube, setting to "private" only allows the uploader to view the video after signing in to YT, so I've never bothered checking.  Setting the video to "unlisted" however produces the same results as posting it publicly.  I posted a nice reception video of WAZU last month that you'll never see because it was banned in 233 countries due to copyright claims for the music identified in the recording :-(

[redhat]

Oy... And the record industry wonders why people steal music?

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[ff]

I posted a nice reception video of WAZU last month that you'll never see because it was banned in 233 countries due to copyright claims for the music identified in the recording :-(

Geez Kilo, I thought it was because Fred has such a potty mouth!    BTW - thanks for trying anyway.

I'm all for protecting intellectual property but I'm incredulous about how treatment differs with differing venues.  Often pharmaceutical companies have to spend tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a drug - that helps people - and jump it through all the hoops for FDA approval.  Then they get 12 years to make their investment back and have the opportunity to appeal the FDA for an extension.  But music?  Lifetime plus 50 years.  If pharma companies had the same deal I imagine that drugs would be MUCH MUCH cheaper.  But of course, it's more important to keep those SME violations going for 40 year old music.  Makes no sense to me...

[CoolAM Radio]

 Maybe  http://www.4shared.com is an option?
 But - take care...after receiving 3 "warnings" for adding so called
 "copyright material"  4Shared will Ban you!

 André
 CoolAM Radio - Shortwave
 the Netherlands
 http://coolam-productions.tk

[ka1iic]

I've been block on youboob more than once...  Germany is often the first to block... must be my last name (heh).  After Germany every Country from here to Pluto pig piles on me...

No freekin' sense of humour ehhh?

Delete the music leave the dialog (unless they have a trade mark on the words) or cut the music at 5 seconds of the beginning and 5 seconds of the ending... dump the entire middle.  This might work.  Not sure... but I almost remember being at a meeting about a certain movie and it was said less than 15 or 10 seconds of the tune being used than copyright isn't so much of an issue... key words 'isn't so much...' not an absolute.

Otherwise dump the entire song and leave the dialog... Then make a very sarcastic comment about certain companies being afraid that a static filled, medium fi, mono copy of their tunes will cut into their profits.  After all we are not talking stereo HD here...

If the above doesn't work contact me and I will send Doctor Poo to their headquarters and he will teach them the ins and outs of fecal matters.

[redhat]

Yeah, you see I hate 'scoped' airchecks.  In most cases the music is the best part 

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