Streaming MP3 For Linux Server Guide

A reader writes: " Does Howard Stern boil your bacon? Do you wish there was a station that only played songs by the Bouncing Souls? After reading this guide, you can show the world that Howie ain't got game, and that songs about soccer(football) are where it's at. The purpose of this document is to describe the process of using Linux-based tools to setup a server used for streaming MP3 data. Find out how to setup your own with this full guide"

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[Weezul]

Unfortunatly, P2P is not really the same as radio. Lissining to radio means that you *want* a DJ to chose the songs for you. The truth is that there are fundamentally three parties involved in the music lissening process: the data provider, the DJ, and the lissener. These parties may be devided up in many diffrent ways. Examples:

1) "Data provider == DJ == Lissener" is the traditional mp3 and CD system.

2) "Data provider == DJ != Lissener" is the trditional radio system.

3) "Data provider != DJ == Lissener" is the fast download system you are describing.

4) "Data provider == Lissener != DJ" is the system used by my artificial intelegence based mp3 player Smartplay. It only playes songs from your drive, but it uses a simple AI to guess your mood and it had a more efficent user interface to help keep you from waisting a lot of time skipping songs.

Anyway, there is really nothing keeping us from a "Data provider != DJ != Lissener" system. This would mean that the DJs would broadcast URLs and mixing instructions, but not necissarily the mp3 data it's self, and the download sites would wait for a significant portion of the lisseners to login before starting the multicast download of the song. The point is that you would not need to have a lot of bandwidth to be a DJ and the lisseners computer can hack together the playlists from multiple DJs to allow for even greater variety.

I tend to think that a hybrid of the "Data provider != Lissener != DJ" and the artivifial intelegence selection of DJs (ala smartplay's selection of songs, but for whole DJs instead---based on what they were plaing right now and your mood) would be the very best solution.

Jeff