Hi all,

Believe it or not I actually have an on topic discussion I'd like to
start....

I contacted one of the Spokane, WA radio stations because I could not
listen to their streaming audio and received a response asking what I
would recommend as the person was very unhappy with what he was
currently using.

What I'm asking here is, what open source friendly streaming audio
protocols are the best one's out there and why? I would like to give
this guy an intelligent answer.

TIA


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On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:15:36AM -0800, Gary Koskenmaki wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Believe it or not I actually have an on topic discussion I'd like to
> start....
>
> I contacted one of the Spokane, WA radio stations because I could not
> listen to their streaming audio and received a response asking what I
> would recommend as the person was very unhappy with what he was
> currently using.

I live in Spokane and I spend advertising dollars on radio, so... who
was it? I'll put boots on the ground and see what I can do to
from here. I'd be happy to them get something going as I could
use the learning experience and come really really cheap.

>
> What I'm asking here is, what open source friendly streaming audio
> protocols are the best one's out there and why? I would like to give
> this guy an intelligent answer.
>

A little judicious wikipedia reading suggests for truly free -- ogg
over http using icecast. slightly less free but more supported on the
client side would be mp3 over http with icecast. check here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_radio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streami...a_technologies

A

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On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:11 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:15:36AM -0800, Gary Koskenmaki wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Believe it or not I actually have an on topic discussion I'd like to
> > start....
> >
> > I contacted one of the Spokane, WA radio stations because I could not
> > listen to their streaming audio and received a response asking what I
> > would recommend as the person was very unhappy with what he was
> > currently using.
>
> I live in Spokane and I spend advertising dollars on radio, so... who
> was it? I'll put boots on the ground and see what I can do to
> from here. I'd be happy to them get something going as I could
> use the learning experience and come really really cheap.
>
> >
> > What I'm asking here is, what open source friendly streaming audio
> > protocols are the best one's out there and why? I would like to give
> > this guy an intelligent answer.
> >
>
> A little judicious wikipedia reading suggests for truly free -- ogg
> over http using icecast. slightly less free but more supported on the
> client side would be mp3 over http with icecast. check here
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_radio
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streami...a_technologies
>
> A

Andrew,

It was KGA. BTW, how did that flooring project go?


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Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:

> > What I'm asking here is, what open source friendly streaming audio
> > protocols are the best one's out there and why? I would like to
> > give this guy an intelligent answer.
> >
>
> A little judicious wikipedia reading suggests for truly free -- ogg
> over http using icecast. slightly less free but more supported on the
> client side would be mp3 over http with icecast. check here

Some radio stations in Romania provide both, with ogg usually having
slightly smaller bit rate (ex. 96 kb/s vs. 128 kb/s). This way
intelligent listeners can save some bandwidth and still have the same
audio quality.

Regards,
Andrei
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)


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