Issues with Live at the Intro (Solved!)

Dear Listeners, you may have noticed that the radio sometimes pauses in between tracks for several minutes or some tracks not being played at all.

I’m currently looking into this issue, seems like the hosting provider service has some problems while uploading some newer tracks.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Thanks for your emails for letting me know that your beloved station was acting up.

Live at the Intro is back in fully working order for your listening pleasure! After contacting the streaming service provider, turns out the uploading functionality had some issues. It was uploading blank audio instead of the MP3/OGG content and wouldn’t pick up the tags either. This wrecked havoc with the track scheduler.

I’m currently using Airtime.pro for Live at the Intro but it hasn’t been free of issues. It required quite a bit of fine tuning to get it to work like I wanted it to and the interface is not intuitive at all. It’s also quite expensive. I’m considering switching to Shoutcast if I continue to have issues.

One thing it’s missing is a good web player that shows more information than just the currently playing track. I currently have a custom JavaScript player in the works. Stay tuned!

Otherwise, I’m still hunting down for good content to add to the station. I’m aiming to add another 12 hours of music by August 2022. Again, if you have any suggestions, please send them my way to liveattheintro@cdahmedeh.net

As usual, you can listen to Live at the Intro on the project page.

Announcing TopRoms - A Curated ROM Set of High Quality Games.

Announcing TopRoms! A curated ROM collection of high quality games. This set aims to include only games that are worth playing according to the industry. A big search was done through blogs, sales numbers, multiple recommendation lists and top lists to find both well known classics and the gems that we forgot.

This is to avoid the inconvenience of having multi-GB ROM sets that have every game ever made for a given system. The majority of the games are of poor-quality and the collection is hard to explore. It’s not always practical to carry these sets on storage limited systems such as smartphones, single-board computers (such as the Raspberry PI) and portable game systems.

🕹️ Click Here for Collection

It is constantly evolving project and more and more games will be added as they are discovered. Feel free to suggest additional high quality games at toproms@cdahmedeh.net

There are currently several packages:

TopRoms: This is for cartridge based systems. Includes Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, SMS, Genesis, 32X, TurboGrafx-16

TopArcade: This is for Arcade Machines. It is compatible with MAME 0.236 and newer.

TopIsos: This is for disc-based systems. Includes Sega CD and Playstation. TurboxGrafx-CD coming soon!

TopHacks: Coming soon! A curated collection of homebrew games and ROM hacks!

Use your favourite emulator to play these games but we recommend the amazing multi-system open-source emulator RetroArch

Introducing the 'Gems' list!

The Internet has so many ways to entertain us and teach us. I sometimes come across extremely useful or interesting web pages on the interwebs. They usually get hidden in a notepad somewhere or in my favourites list.

I want to share pages that I have found useful throughout my Internet career. The list is made to grow either from places I stumbled across myself or someone wanted to share.

Feel free to make suggestions by sending an email to gems@cdahmedeh.net

Gems 📚

Announcing Live at the Intro - A Video Game Music Online Radio

There’s an intangible experience that only video game music can provide. Known for their strong and incredibly consistent melodies, it’s easy to understand why many listen to this kind of music regularly. Unlike other types of music, video game music isn’t designed to take away your attention from the game but rather provide an ambience to the level and push you to move forward. This is why many study video playlists are composed of video game music.

While everyone has love for classic video game soundtracks from Mario, Zelda, Sonic and so on, it gets repetitive to listen to them all the time. Unlike my competitors, I dig deep to find the gems that are rarely heard but also balancing it with a touch of our favourite classics. There are many underappreciated artists who push chips to the limits.

Enjoy the masterpieces from Jesper Kyd, Matt Furniss, Chris Hülsbeck, Yuzo Koshiro, Tim Follin, Barry Leitch and many others. The station runs 24/7 providing a random selection of different eras from the Amiga to the Modern and everything in between. There’s never a dull moment on our station and hope that you enjoy VGMs as much as we do.

There are many ways to listen to the station but the simplest way is accessing the radio page. More methods to listen and additional information can be found on the Live at the Intro page. Our collection of music is ever expanding for the variety that we all crave. Enjoy!

♫ Radio Page

New domains to access my website...

I’ll have to admit that https://cdahmedeh.net can be a bit overwhelming to remember sometimes even though it’s the official URL of the website. Most people try to pronounce the full URL but it’s often incorrectly pronounced and it’s hard to remember. The reasoning behind my URL is that it is my username for almost everything.

Two new domains have been introduced that just include my name which will redirect you to this website.

ahmedelhajjar.com

ahmed.place

Hopefully, these are easier to remember and makes reaching my website more accessible.