[icecast] A large streaming project

Scott Manley
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:23:14 -0000

SOunds like whate we deployed at myplay.com - we had thousands of streams
available but many of them would have zero listeners - so rather than
sourcing that many I built a demand based streaming system that built the
streams when they were delivered.

S&M

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ross Levis" <ross@stationplaylist.com>
To: <icecast@xiph.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [icecast] A large streaming project

> Jack Moffitt wrote
>
> >8000 streams is quite a lot.  Not to mention the amount of music you
> >would need to make the content in 8000 streams more than trivial :)
> >
> >Or do you just mean 8000 simultaneous listeners?  Because that is quite
> >a different problem.
> >
> No 8000 streams, but that could take a few years to obtain.  Probably
> around 2000 in the first year and they won't be just music either.
>  Content will be provided by thousands the DJ's employed from all over
> the world to provide 2 hours a day of programming including
> announcements and advertisements.
>
> I've been employed to write software to help the DJ's compile their
> shows, and at our end, compile the playlists for each station and
> control the playout software.  The first stations should start appearing
> in a couple of months.
>
> Michael Smith wrote:
>  > The only major thing is this: do they require RTP (multicast)?
>
> Can you explain what this is and it's benefits?  I tried googling it
but
> didn't find anything useful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ross Levis.
>
>
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