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Welcome to: Raven Sound Bromley

We are a community media project run by volunteers and support charity, community and voluntary groups in the London Borough of Bromley.

LISTEN LIVE (mobiles and pc's)

Peercast and Streamer

These are alternative technology solutions that pass the stream around so that more listeners can get connected.

There's a Peercast Winamp plugin or our packaged windows player in a folder. Also, Streamer p2p is a popular windows application with built in station listing. Use these systems if the direct stream is full.

Download Winamp Peercast Plugin. Extract the files inside this peercast winamp plugins folder and copy them to the Winamp\Plugins folder. Listen with this Winamp Link

Download Windows Peercast Player. Click to add the player folder to your desktop or CD. More Peercast info.

Download Streamer p2p. Here's a direct streamer link when you have installed it. Our Streamer p2p Info Page. More Streamer Stations: Streamerp2p website.

Bromley Community Engagement Forum - Community Safety

Emergency and Council Services: Next Meeting: 7pm 30th November at Bromley FC Hayes Lane. Details: PO Box 34 Beckenham Kent BR3 4ZN Tel: 020 8658 7168 e-mail: BromleyCEF@aol.com  Web: www.bcef.org.uk

Bromley Library

Events. 

Beeche Centre

Bromley Environmental Education Centre High Elms. More details.

Dulwich Upper Wood

The wood is in Farquhar Road, off Crystal Palace Parade, event details on the Embrace Cooperation site.

Walk London

Weekend, city, nature, suburban and more walking events.

London Bike Rides

Details of the Skyride events. Local Bromley Cyclists website.

Get Online Centres in Bromley.

About: Streamer p2p

What is Streamerp2p?

Streamerp2p is free windows software that supports streaming media (audio/video webcasting) peer to peer networks across the web. At the present time, webcasting involves sending a separate connection from the server (broadcaster) to each listener. This limits the number of people who can access the service owing to the cost of providing the necessary internet traffic (bandwidth) and the limited number of simultaneous connections a server can handle.

Peer to peer avoids these problems by distributing the programme to a network consisting of a chain of listeners, who pass the programme on as they listen, thereby sharing the bandwidth. We ensure that listeners are not penalised by the extra connections by keeping the bit rate as low as possible. We still have a central server, but it has to provide only a few root streams instead of supporting the whole network.

How does it work? When you start it up, Streamerp2p opens a radio station listing box which auto-updates. All you have to do is double click on the station you want to hear, to activate the internal player. Only advanced formats need external players, you can easily adjust the settings menu to use your own music players if you wish.

Where is it? Full details of Streamerp2p are available on the Streamerp2p Website, where you can link to this easy Windows Installer Download. After installation, click on the desk top logo. There is a Winamp plugin included although at the present time this is not in use by us so we can't give advice, try the Streamerp2p forum. You can also run Streamerp2p in Linux under Wine 1.0. For Mac users, there are forum users who claim to have run it but no details are available here.

Update. The author of Streamerp2p has developed a second (Beta) version which has improved graphics and other features, although many stations are currently only available on the standard version above.

If you want to try this out it is available on the Streamerp2p website. It does not appear to have a windows installer, you simply unzip the file package and run the exec file. Please be aware that although this version, being portable, is slightly easier to test, it is not guaranteed for untried situations. For Linux users with ubuntu 8.10 and Wine 1.0 there are modifications required to get it to work, see our comments on the ubuntu forum for Wine.