Rainwave

Rainwave is an interactive radio website that allows users to request, rate, and vote for songs in real time.[1] The site hosts five separate radio streams and focuses completely on video game music. Rainwave is a free service, funded primarily by Robert "LiquidRain" McAuley, and supplemented by user donations.

Rainwave
Original author(s)Robert "LiquidRain" McAuley
Initial releaseSeptember 10, 2006 (2006-09-10)
Stable release
Rainwave 5 / December 12, 2015 (2015-12-12)
Repositoryhttps://github.com/rmcauley/rainwave/
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Windows Mobile, Android, iPhone
Available inEnglish, French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Dutch, Polish
TypeMusic
LicenseOpen source
Websitehttps://rainwave.cc/

History

The Rainwave web interface and back-end was written by Robert McAuley. The initial version was called "Raincast" and was written as a stream helper for IceS. It was announced to the Icecast mailing list in November 2004.[2]

In the summer of 2008, with the addition of a second stream for OCR Radio, Rainwave became the official online radio station for OverClocked ReMix.[3][4] At the same time, the Rainwave interface was upgraded to version 2, or "R2".[5]

In March 2009, a third stream, V-wave, was added to the site.[6] V-wave specializes in video game music covers and chiptunes. For a brief period, V-wave featured live radio shows as well.

In February 2011, V-wave was renamed to Mixwave and then eventually Covers.

Later that year, in August 2011, 2 new stations were introduced. The first was named Omniwave, which hosted all music available on via the website. The second was Bitwave, a stream exclusively for chiptune music. From this point on, Rainwave also started to present its music streams in MP3 format.[7]

Technical Functionality

Rainwave interface and server-side software has been designed and implemented by Robert "LiquidRain" McAuley.

It is divided into various layers with different functionality:

  • Lyre: JSON API written in Python using Tornado.
  • Orpheus: custom-made software C++ app made to control Rainwave (incl. elections, song selections, request processing, etc.)
  • Eurydice: custom-made web app paneling system used for the site.
  • Liquidsoap: third-party software for audio streaming.

Audio streams are in the Vorbis and mp3 formats at approximately 96 kbit/s.

See also

References
  1. "Interview: LiquidRain of rainwave.cc". driph.com/words. 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  2. McAuley, Robert (2004-11-13). "[Icecast] Raincast a 'stream helper' I've made. Looking for feedback". Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  3. ormgas.com -> rainwave.cc Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "OCR Radio (streaming OC ReMixes 24/7)". OC ReMix Community. 5 June 2008. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  5. "Rainwave 2 Launched - Rainwave". rainwave.cc. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  6. "V-wave has launched! - Rainwave". rainwave.cc. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  7. "Omniwave, Bitwave, and MP3 Streams Arrive! - Rainwave". rainwave.cc. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
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