// GZS 197.7 OMVFM · station access
Getting set up
For people who have been given an account. Two logins, two different jobs, and one instruction that will save you an afternoon.
1. The console
Where you sign in, see the station, and put music into the library.
Your email address and the password you were sent. Not an address on this website: the console runs on the station itself rather than on this site, so it has its own address on the same domain. Bookmark it.
- Change your password the first time you get in. It was generated for you and sent in plain text, which is fine for one delivery and not fine forever.
- What you can do: see the station, upload music, and look at listener numbers.
- What you cannot do, and this is deliberate rather than a lack of trust: delete anyone's files, change station settings, or manage other people. Nobody should be one misclick from removing somebody else's record.
- Some admin pages will open and then show you nothing. That is the console being lazy about hiding them, not something being broken. There is nothing behind them for you.
2. Putting music in
The part where people lose an afternoon.
Uploading a file does not put it on the air. A track that is in the library but not in a block will never play. It is not queued, it is not waiting, it is silent, and nothing on the screen will tell you so.
You do not have the permission to file tracks into blocks, on purpose. Upload them, then say which block you are aiming at, and someone at the station puts them in. Look at the blocks first so you can name one.
- Tag the files before you send them. Artist and title, spelled the way you want them read on air, written into the file itself. Untagged files come out of the automation as "Track 03" and that is what a listener sees.
- Finished audio only. Mixed, mastered, levelled like a record. Everything here goes through the same mastering chain, so send it clean rather than pre-squashed.
- Only what you have the right to air. Same standard as everyone else on the station: you made it, and you are allowed to license it out non-exclusively. The submissions page spells the whole test out.
3. Going live
Read this bit before you install anything.
radio.groundzerosum.com/public/gzs_radio/dj
Your streamer username and password, which are a separate pair from your console login. Allow the microphone when the browser asks. Connect, and you are on.
Do not use Butt, Mixxx, RocketBroadcast or any other desktop encoder. They will not connect and it is not your setup. The usual source port on this station is closed from the outside, because the box sits behind a tunnel that only carries web traffic. Anyone pointing an encoder at port 8005 gets a timeout and reasonably concludes their account is broken. It is not. The browser page above is the way in, and it works today.
- You interrupt the automation, you do not replace it. The moment you connect, the AutoDJ steps aside. The moment you disconnect, it picks straight back up. You cannot leave the station in dead air by getting it wrong.
- Use headphones. Speakers plus an open microphone is a feedback loop, and the stream is delayed enough that you will not hear it coming.
- Wired beats wireless. A dropout on your end is a dropout on the air.
- Listeners hear a delay. Do not monitor yourself on the public stream to check whether you are live. The console tells you.
If something does not work
- The login page loads but your password fails. Say so before trying again a dozen times. Accounts have been issued for the wrong machine before.
- You are logged in but the station looks empty. Tell us. That is the shape of a permissions problem, not a you problem.
- Your encoder will not connect. Expected. See above. Use the browser page.
- Your tracks are in the library and never play. They are not in a block yet. That is section 2, and it is the most common one.
Anything else, or anything that smells wrong: [email protected]. A person reads it.