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Live Vorbis Streams Over 802.11b From SXSW.com

Posted by timothy on from the decent-exposure dept.

chupacabra writes "SXSW.com in Austin, Texas has a group of computers in various music venues around town. The ices/icecast stream is sent over 802.11 to a main server at SXSW. There are 6 venues running as of this moment. Thanks to the folks at Vorbis and their CVS we are rocking. See sxsw.com/music/livestreams."

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  1. This seems odd... by mbourgon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    9) An Apple Xserve, also running Gentoo Linux
    Why not run OS X? Seems more, um, natural.

    And I'm kicking myself over missing Pineforest Crunch! Dammit....drummer from Anglagard!

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  2. Meet me on mercury by ignoramus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow. This is neat - listening to a live feed of a show somewhere in TX. There's a good show at the Mercury at this very moment (23:30 EST).

    The only thing missing is a beer and a bit of meta-info included in the stream (e.g. the band and tune names).

  3. tourist? night life? RIAA no involvement? by sublime99 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This is a very neat idea that utilitizes machines that seem to be already in place and it is great for tourist. They can insert wireless cards in rental cars, then the people driving around the city could listen to the music in the car. Good way to get the night life broadcasted all over. Have different "stations" with different types of music for people to find something they like, while waiting for that parking spot.


    My question is would the RIAA be involved in this? If the artists they are broadcasting on this station give them permission to do this. Wouldn't it be out of the RIAA's hands, since the artist gave them permission? I know there are bands like the Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews, and Phish who allowed live recording at their shows fre of charge. You just have to bring your own recording equipment.

  4. Wrong Idea? by menasius · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It seems to me a lot of posts deal with streaming music over 802.11b to the end user.

    However, I took this to be kinda a portable internet brodcasting expirement, in that their ISP is a wireless one. Thus, just like your local radio station can broadcast from a bar during a live performance, so can these fellows. The difference being they dont have to be at a venue that came pre-wired for internet.

    As a means of delivery to the end user, I agree, why complicate things with making it an internet stream when there is good ol FM.

    However, as the way I saw it, its bringing some benefits that an FM station can have to the realm of an Internet station.

    -bart

  5. Re:Whats the point? by ramzak2k · · Score: 4, Interesting

    wouldnt make a difference to general listening but it is definitely an innovation. Think of the possibilities :

    What if they could ask what song the users would like to be played next and switch accordingly based upon wishes of the majority ?

    What if they could generate a system where people could rate songs over the same Wifi (using PDAs maybe) and systems are in place to determine what might be played next.

    What if they are able to transmit the mp3 tags of the songs also so that you can rush to the CD store and get the album for that one song ?

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