Phat Beats Radio

[DJboutit]

Phat Beats Radio playing the best Rap RnB Soul Funk Reggae Chillhop Acid Jazz Ambient Triphop Blues from the 1970s to early 2000s over 170k traxx in the playlist streaming at 192kbps OGG with good stereo tool setting studio location central Missouri https://phatbeatsradio.net/

My station first station started as a FM pirate in Houston Tx in 2001 station got 2 to 2 1/2 mile range I could never get the antenna fully tuned. I ran the station on and off until early 2007 then I switched to a internet only station I have been this mostly since 2008. In 2019 I moved to central Missouri the website has a radio player and a picture of what the studio studio looks like currently.

[teckniqs]

I remember you from years ago, good to hear you're still going unlike many that have came and gone over the years.

[DJboutit]

The peak for internet radio was 2007 to like April or May of 2012 85% of internet radio listeners moved to sites like Deezer Spotify Youtube or they download FLAC or WAV albums from torrent sites or usenet.

About the 50% of people that use to listen to internet radio still think stations still stream at 96kbps or 128kbps MP3 with a 300 to 750 track playlist a lot of stations now stream at 192kbp or 256kbops AAC or OOG with a 3500+ track playlist.

Back in the peak stations use to average 40 to 65 listeners with very littke promotion now days stations will promote on many different websites and they will only average 5 to 15 listeners. To get more internet listeners to internet radio station again cars with internet radio capable radios would help a lot. My station only averages 4 to 12 listeners two reasons why most of the listeners left internet radio years ago and streaming with OGG.

[DJboutit]

I just increased the stream quality Phat Beats Radio is now streaming at 256kbps OGG

[ChazAnthony1982]

I remember the UK PhatBeats station. It was way ahead of its time! Studio webcams the lot!

[DJboutit]

I am streaming on Hearthis just testing for now

https://hearthis.at/djboutit-pz/live/

I would love do video streaming my best quality webcam is my cellphone and using it as a webcam the video is so so it like 35% better than than the 1080p webcam I have the video maxes at 1080p 5k to 6k bitrate. Another reason I do not do much webcam streaming is my upload sucks I get 1TB of upload a month then my upload speed is dropped from 4.5mbs to 200 to 300 kbps from the rest of the month.

[radionortheast]

Is phatbeats geolocked just wondering

[DJboutit]

Is phatbeats geolocked just wondering

Neither stream should be locked to anybody