Remember that, depending on the format, audio streaming is more complicated than what can be handled by mere multicast. The server must splice in headers containing codebooks for each new connection.
What you could have is an intelligent server/router system wherein the router handles accepting new connections then after the codebooks have been sent adds the connection to a quasi-multicast group. In this way, the server would only have to handle new connections and continuing to feed the router with the source stream.
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On both sides? What about aluminum absorbed through the skin of your hands?
And the benefits of the caffeine will be offset by the aluminum in the cans
What you could have is an intelligent server/router system wherein the router handles accepting new connections then after the codebooks have been sent adds the connection to a quasi-multicast group. In this way, the server would only have to handle new connections and continuing to feed the router with the source stream.
Finally CDs are catching up to LPs. Anyone who owns Styx's Paradise Theater knows that this technology has been available for over 20 years