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P2P Internet Radio

Posted by michael on from the need-tunes-badly dept.

fdsa writes "O'Reilly's openp2p.com has an article describing two programs for peer-to-peer audio streaming, Streamer and PeerCast. Streamer is currently Windows-only but GPLed, and desperately searching for somebody to port it to Linux. PeerCast was on slashdot before, but now runs on Linux and supports Ogg Vorbis. There's an impressive list of channels already. Planned features include video streaming and a "tip jar" system for paying artists. Setting up your own station is as simple as installing the oddcast winamp plugin or liveice for xmms."

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  1. In case it gets Slashdotted... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Here is the cache of it on Google. :)

  2. Re:Free? by jilles · · Score: 3, Informative

    Peercast currently is programmed by only a handful of programmers. I often hang out in the peercast forums and the peercast irc channel. Giles, the guy who started all this has on multiple occasions expressed the intention to open source peercast's core. He just wishes to clean up the code base before he does so and have a reasonably well functioning tool. He does all this in his spare time so please be patient.

    The last thing he wants now is have buggy clones of peercast dominating the network. This is what happened to gnutella in the early days.

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    Jilles