this is either paranormal or a technical problem

cormac_s

this is a bit of a tricky one to work out. I'll tell you what happened first, then looka t the technicalities.

I do a bit of web radio. basically i stream info from my computer, to my web server and then people tune into the webserver link to listen. the most basic point is that only information fed to the server comes out the other end for the listener to hear.

Last week I was running a stream of new music and bits for keith, who helps out with the radio shows. it wasnt an official 'show' as such and more of a private listening of stuff for future shows, so there was only Keith tuned in and no-one else.

My application crashed and the stream cut off - which it does once the applcaition feeding the info to the server quits or shuts down. this should have meant that keith would have heard music and then bang - his stream would have disconnected. there is always about a minutes delay between me streaming the info and the listener hearing it so basically Keiths stream should have finished about a minute or so after my application had quit and disconnected. not so. apparently keith spent a further 5 mins listening to a distorted and flanged voice that he couldnt understand but from which he swears he heard his name being said. he thought this voice was me taking the piss.

Now technically can an IP based stream pick up a different IP based stream and act like interference? Ive never heard of that happening though Im looking into it. If anyone has any info on such interference I'd be glad to read up on it.

to finish off, here is a link to the thread of the show on the night in question - I split the topic just to cover Keiths reaction to hearing the voice as he explains inthe thread what he heard:

http://thesaturdaysessions.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=510

humanji

Could be that through some cock up that it was playing something you had already recorded and streamed, but it was too distorted to remember? Maybe the stream is cached and when it stoped, a bit of a hic-up caused it to try and find something to play. It kind of looped to the start of the stream again. You said in the link that it crashed on a mac, and from personal experiences, when macs crash, they do it with style!

Or, did you have a microphone hooked up by any chance (maybe even headphones as they can sometimes pic up sound in the opposite way to ususal), and it actually was you talking, but you didn't realise?

cormac_s

the app crashed, though I did say the mac int he thread. it was just the app though. The stream played had no voice over on it as it was direct from a playlist, but it could have been some form of caching of maybe trying to restart the stream.

I think I'll do exactly the same thing again and see what happens ... though I'll have to work out how to force Audion to crash.

it is a strange one but i think its something technical

cormac_s

Ive been chatting to a fella that works alot with web based radio and he tells me that though he doesnt know why or how, but such things have been known to happen before, in particular one show where the live DJ and his audience could hear the previous DJ in the background. when the live DJ shut off the stream, the previous DJ was still streaming in the background - which technically shouldnt be possible but it obviously is.

a technical error then I'd say

6th

Have you tried asking in a technical forum? I mean if you think its technical then surely that would be your best bet. I have no idea about servers or audio streams so the only advice I can give is to ask someone who might know?

cormac_s

thats precisely what I did do. all i needed to know was if it was possible for a technical error of that kind of happen and it seems so, so ergo - no paranormal mystery anymore

stevenmu

I'd be inclined to think it's a technical problem too. I don't know much about macs, but I know on windows pcs that when an app appears to crash, the process can still stay open in the background trying to run. I've had this happen me with audio player software before, it would crash but some process would still be running trying to play but spewing out weird sounding gibberish. Also as someone else mentioned, the one minute delay implies some kind of cache, the process could have kept writing to this after the crash, or else the crash could have caused it to write some kind of invalid data to the cache which caused the player software at the other end to go a bit crazy.

Ziycon

Ah theres me getting excited thinking it maybe some EVP!

cormac_s

haha - me too. initially i thought it was some new form of communication that spirits had discovered