Introduction

I'm a huge fan of videogames, and one of my favorite titles of this year is Mewgenics, a turn based strategy game about… you guessed it, cats . The game comes with a fake radio station (called WMEW 99.9) that plays all the music tracks of the game plus some hilarious fake commercials and segments. You can listen to it while playing the game or (secret trick) by adding -radiomode true in the launch options.

On Youtube you can find videos of 6, 8 or even 10 hours of the radio playing, but it seems like no one ever considered hosting a 24/7 livestream. No one except me! I’ve never tried doing something similar, so it seemed like a fun experiment and a good learning opportunity. In this article I will explain how I managed to do that, as well as all the optimizations to try to keep operational costs at a minimum. Let’s go!

You can find the source code of this project here

The livestream instead is here

The plan

First of all was figuring out where to stream.…