[Gllug] [OT] ShoutCasting

[Axel Segebrecht]

Thanks Rich!!! I read about it ages ago and completely forgot :)
Looking into it now and just hope the PlusNet is MultiCast enabled.

PS: Just downloaded and installed the Windows version (ok, flame me if
you like but I do have more than one OS)... looks like there is a
license to pay in order to use it! (ran it once and it "expired") Let's
hope the linux version is different.

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Rich Walker wrote:

> Axel Segebrecht <axel at segebrecht.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hello everyone,
>>
>>I'm running a small webradio and need bandwidth. So I'm wondering how I
>>can best use the bandwidth I'm bragging off people ;D
>>
>>At the moment everyone is running a local shoutcast server and I just
>>put it on my website (www.dexradio.co.uk) so people can connect manually.
> 
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
>>What would be great would be for people to have a single URL to remember
>>and use which automatically connects to an available server.
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> off the top of my head, doesn't the bittorrent system use something like
> this to keep track of people that have begun downloads so it can refer
> new requests to them rather than the original server? I think it's the
> tracker component. You could do worse than point out to the bt author
> that he could relatively easily provide this as well.
> 
> On the other hand, isn't this a prime application for IP multicast and
> the sparse multicast routing protocol (which basically assumes there are
> little multicast patches in various places interconnected through
> standard IP)?
> 
> cheers, Rich.
> 


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