19 August 2022

The idea is born

On this night, we attempted to virtually have a group sound trip using our friend's new Technics turn table, dishing out the group's favorite music via Facebook Live and streamed to all of us on our private FB group page. At first it went sort of OK - we enjoyed the music, albeit with the reduced sound quality due to FB's algorithm of reducing either video or sound quality in order to prioritize smooth video. However, it was quite challenging with FB's copyright algorithm: playing some songs would trigger the copyright notice and halt the stream instantly, necessitating a restreaming. It would oftentimes result to a subsequent stream stoppage. Thus we couldn't enjoy the music at all. Then I realized that we could use a streaming service in order to get FM station-quality music sans the interruptions. Enter STREAMNAVS.COM. I remembered that a good friend of mine hosted a radio streaming service and immediately thought that this would be a good platform to conduct virtual group sound trips. Three hours later, RKR Music is born and I am listening to high quality streamed music while writing this article. For sure, the next virtual group sound trip will be more enjoyable.