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Dutch Experimental IPv6 MP3 Stream Relay
Remco den Besten writes "In order to promote the IPv6 protocol, some Dutch enthousiasts deploy an IPv6 MP3 stream relay server.
So, do something different with your IPv6 connectivity and listen to the streams offered!
See & listen (both IPv4 and IPv6)."
...by supplying an IPv4 stream as well, because we acknowledge it's a lot of hassle for people to use IPv6! Genius!
Because we're gonna run out of IPv4 address, and port forwarding is very annoying. IPv6 is the future, but it's just not gonna work if we leave it up to the users to do something about it.
IT_GUY to Boss: "Sir I believe its time we began supporting IPv6"
Boss: "And what are the benifits?"
IT_GUY: "More IP's better system etc."
Boss: "What about MP3 Streaming, does it have that?"
IT_GUY: "Why yes it does sir."
Boss: "Well then load it up!"
Ahh if only pretty music and pictures were the key components of Open Source software, would make convincing implementation so much easier.
"Look at all these benchmarks"..."ohhh pretty colors, we'll buy it!!"
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Will this be the first IPv6 service to be shut down by the RIAA?
Beep beep.
Did you hear that HDTV is an area where Pr0n _isn't_ leading the field?
:O
Evidently you can see too much detail.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
This is the furst guy to do something like this with IPv6.
I guess he is also the first IPv6 user that will be sued by the RIAA.
All the site admins need to encourage IPv6 use! a good slashdoting
Not a troll
Wow, IPv6 really made those mp3s sound better. It was almost as if I were there!
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
This just in: RIAA uses the DMCA to shut down all IPv6 services, claiming they have the potential to distribute illegal MP3s.
The point is you can listen to it without wasting disk space. Also turns you on to new music you otherwise wouldnt know about. I dont listen to traditional radio, nor do I watch mtv -- The only way I can learn about new music is streams and word of mouth.
Listening to a good stream has a much better flow to -- Random mp3s jump from song to song, but a good stream is setup more like a good radiostation, where songs flow together rather than jumping from an aggressive song to some slow ballad
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Although the description makes it sound otherwise, the streams are available only in IPv6. What is both in IPv4 and IPv6 is the page with the information about the stream.
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Yeah I know what FLAC is, but streamed? I mean, first you have the issue of encoding flac in realtime, but the bitrate on flac is far too high for most connections. Also the entire point of icecast and shoutcast is they scale to slow and fast connections pretty much transparently.
There is a working M$ v6 kit now
now.. no one has any excuse not to use it..
Windows 2000 IPv6 Kit
Win XP IPv6 HOW-TO
It's great that they are now streaming in IPv6. I wonder when RIAA will track them down and force them to pay the royalties on the audio streams they are providing. Perhaps people will start migrating p2p applications to IPv6 so at least for the time being, RIAA will be behind the times. When RIAA catches up, just move the application to the new experimental IP stack. Welcome to the new cat-and-mouse game.
v4 has a bug. Upgrade to v6. v5 was out last week but they had to take it down when they found a security problem.
Even if I load the ipv6 module in linux and use ipv6 applications. Doesn't my ISP have to route ipv6 packets before I can even use it?
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Erm, FLAC is rather fast at encoding, provided you stick to the more sane settings and avoid --super-secret-totally-impractical-compression-le
It's fine for LAN situations; fileserver under stairs, player under TV, stream over network. The sort of people who would do something like this are precisely the sort of user who would appreciate lossless compression.
Good... Maybe someone else will have better luck convincing Nullsoft that ipv6 actually IS desired:
9 5119a267d91817195a9ad715&threadid=125475&highlight =ipv6
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=3b5228a
Btw, same goes for ipv6 support in Mozilla for windows... the *nix versions have had ipv6 support for a while now, right?
Are there any other ipv6 alternatives for windows? IE and Windows Media Player both have ipv6 support for win2k sp3 and up as well as XP, but I'd rather not use those if possible.
Oh, you just want the ipv6 patch I made from it? Go ahead, take it. Just go to your xmms 1.2.7 source root and do a patch -p0, oh well, y'all know the drill.
Have fun listening :)
If you're going to push for a major networking change with streaming media, go for multicast instead. It has a huge direct benefit for streaming media.. The stream source would only need bandwidth for one stream, not one stream multiplied by the number of listeners.
It really cracks me up that this is a site to promote stuff. With its lack of design, poor English (yes I know they are Dutch), and tech talk, it is only preaching to the choir.
The problem with IPv6, and for that matter just about any open-source project, is not that it lacks the marketing budget, it's that it's promoted by pale faced geeks that don't know or care about the rest of the world thinks.
Well without the "outside world's" approval nothing will happen. IPv6 is dead in the water unless one of the following to things happens.
1) The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is completely transparent. If a user has any compatibility problems or has to type anything into a command line forget it. If you have to rely on the public to actually learn something and do it, game over.
2) Every manufacturer of software and hardware will have to plan the obsolescence of IPv4. Like they are trying to do with HDTV, What they did with Vinyl LP's and Eight Tracks. This will take years, and when they finally have it, it too will be obsolete.
I've also hacked my own copy of icecast2 to accept connections over IPv6, and now listen to TripleJ and various other Sydney-based radio stations regularly online.
:(
Just playing my part to support the adoption of IPv6..
My IPv6 Ogg Vorbis stream keeps me sane!
Or for those without AAAA DNS working:
http://[2001:618:400::cb12:26db]:8000/live.ogg
Slashcode doesnt support IPv6 html links it seems
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