User: Felix The Panda

Streaming P2P

On: Internet Radio Will Go Silent on June 26th

I came across Octoshape a while back, through radioparadise.com. It's a P2P network designed to propagate a stream at a near live rate. It seems to be quite reliable, and is also great for streaming to other machines on a LAN.

A "performance" is defined as the streaming of one song to one listener; thus a station that has an average audience of 500 listeners racks up 500 "performances" for each song it plays. I can imagine it will be difficult to apply such pricing to a system like this, if the protocol doesn't make a specific effort to contact the original source. Perhaps P2P Internet radio will become the next... well... P2P file sharing.