Listen Live

Have you ever wondered what Slice of SciFi sounds like unedited and uncensored? Did you ever wonder where some of the in-jokes and unexplained fits of giggling originated?

Then you definitely want to listen to us or watch us on the live feeds!

Thursday nights, starting around 6:30pm Pacific, you can listen to the crew record the Voicemail Show and the main show for that week, and everything else that goes on in between. The audio streamed from the Draco Vista studio is live, uncensored, unexpurgated, and sometimes not quite safe for work or for delicate ears and sensitivies (we warned you!)

How to Listen

First, you need an application that can connect to a streaming audio feed. WinAmp seems to be the app of choice for Windows, and iTunes or Quicktime seems to work best on the Mac. One app of choice for Linux users is Amarok (with the xine engine).

To connect to the live feed, you can point your favorite audio stream catcher at one of the following server feeds:

http://stream.farpointmedia.net:8000/listen.m3u (USA)
http://w2k.myftp.org:8000/FPM.m3u (Europe)

This will let you listen in as we record, catching the show a few days before the fully produced version goes out on the podcast feed, and about 10 days before you’d start hearing it on Sirius-XM Radio.

If you like what you hear, be sure to drop in at 6pm Pacific on Wednesdays to listen to the live feed of the recording of The Babylon Podcast, another fantastic FarPoint Media production.

How to Watch!

That’s right… you can now watch a live video stream of the behind-the-scenes mayhem that goes into creating your weekly Slice of SciFi fix.

Tune into http://www.ustream.tv/channel/slice-of-scifi-live, and be either amused or amazed.

Be Social!

We have a Freenode IRC chatroom that can be used 24 / 7, but the most activity is on Wednesday and Thursday nights when recording is active.

Summer is usually monitoring the chatroom, but she’s not as chatty as the listeners, since she is otherwise occupied with being a co-host, and that means paying attention to what the other hosts and guests are saying!

Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #farpointmedia

All you need to do is point your favorite chat application (if it’s IRC compatible) to the server, and type in the command
/join #farpointmedia

after you’ve connected and chosen a nickname. If the system complains that you’ve chosen a nickname that’s already in use, choose a new one by typing in:
/nick newnickname