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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. 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