One La Salle Radio

One La Salle Radio is an internet radio service provided by De La Salle Philippines (DLSP). The aim of this service is to promote student and alumni musical works by streaming them live through the internet. Anyone, including guests, can register, create their profile and upload their original songs through the portal – similar to the concept of YouTube.

This service, formerly a project of NCORE (a group under LSCS), was realized by a group of students believing in promoting their fellow student bands and other musical enthusiasts in DLSU. NCORE completed the project late January 2007 and the service is only accessible within the DLSU network. As a result, the service did not gain much attention due to this; therefore, the group decided to have this elevated to a level that DLSU Community can support it.

Around Mid-February, the group was able to get a project from DLSP which they immediately proposed the service to be part of the project. Eventually, the service was warmly accepted simply because the aim of this service fully aligns with the goals of the DLSP project. Due to this, the NCORE office was temporarily considered as the Data Center for the DLSP project on March 26, 2007. With the endorsement of DLSP, ITC immediately provided the IP address for public access and the domain names were provided by DLSP. Then the service became available to the public as of April 3, 2007.

With the integration of the service to the DLSP project, the portal has to undergo some revisions and stress tests – maximizing the capability of the servers. The service should be fully functional on June 22, 2007 – the date where the DLSP project should also be complete.

How to start listening...

The streaming server is up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All you need to do is have your media players (Winamp, Windows Media Player, RealMedia Player and iTunes) open the URL: http://www.delasalle.ph:8888

The group is currently experimenting on the appropriate bit-rate so that we cannot degrade the connection and the quality of the music. The streaming server is configured to only accept 100 connections.

It would be prudent to know your network settings before accessing the service. Some proxy and/or firewall settings actually block the specified port resulting to no connections or connection timeouts. Therefore, you may have to configure allowing the service to pass.

How to create your own profile...

The group is currently revising the procedures on how to start your own profile and have people listen to your work. Please come back when we are finished with the revisions. Thanks!