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Live Music in Second Life

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shake-your-virtual-groove-thing dept.

Kate Thompson writes "Alice Taylor at Wonderland writes that BBC Radio 1 is coming to Second Life, with a virtual festival and simulcast this weekend to coincide with Radio 1's One Big Weekend event. Second Life users can catch live performances in-game by acts including Muse, Razorlight and Gnarls Barkley. Pitchforkmedia.com also reported on the rise of live music in Second Life a couple of weeks ago, focusing on the launch of Muse Isle and the swarms of coffeehouse performers playing covers every night in-game."

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  1. Hmmm by wpanderson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Interesting, this probably means the BBC are simulcasting Radio 1 in MP3 instead of "we know the casual user can't rip this" Real or WMA streams. Tut tut.

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    1. Re:Hmmm by eggstasy · · Score: 2, Informative

      I'm Eggy Lippmann in Second Life and I worked on this project, having made the pretty radio you see in that blog, among other things.
      I can tell you one thing - BBC Radio 1 is only streamed in WMA and RAM.
      Second Life supports inworld audio and video streaming, but not in these formats.
      You can set an URL as a property of a land parcel, and people on that parcel will get the URL from the server to stream from it on the client side... but it will only read MP3 and OGG streams.
      The way I got around this was by launching the user's browser... which is a horrible hack, but it was the only way.

  2. Re:Just another market for commercials by McAlvis · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope BBC dont do commercials.

  3. About time by Trouvist · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't play Second Life and I don't ever want to, but I think it's nice to see that the BBC is actually realizing the potential of online media compared to other corporations. Newspapers don't get it. Television studios don't get it. The RIAA and MPAA don't get it. Finally someone gets it. I'm personally glad that they managed to find a niche and work into it. Let's hope they do it with class.

  4. Re:Just another market for commercials by eggstasy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nobody forces you to listen to the stream. Streams in Second Life work on a per-parcel basis. Meaning, if you're on someone's land, you get to listen to the music they chose. If you're on your land, you get to listen to whatever you choose. In addition, streamed music is off by default, so when you're flying around you won't switch from stream to stream all the time.

  5. Excellent... by grammar+fascist · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One less reason to spend time in the real world.

    Second Life may very well actualize many of the issues brought up by crappy "we're all actually living inside a computer" science fiction stories. The turning point will be when some judge hands down a broad ruling giving in-game money the same status as out-game money.

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  6. At least one sense will be gratified... by stinkbomb · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...because the graphics in Second Life make me want to gouge my eyes out.