Need a reliable audio streamming distribution server

[Gene Holmerud]

Thanks all for your responses.  I've learned a lot, mostly that I need to  
learn more.  Three OSS solutions have been mentioned, some specifically  
judged from experience.  Joshua does have professional expertise in this  
area and is helping.

The issue with the current distribution provider has exploded such that  
the show is off the air!  If that service was actually trying to dump a  
client, the resemblence to what we actually endured would be striking.

We are looking at other turn-key services, but looking at the  
Do-It-Yourself solution. too.  The hurdle will be bandwidth.  My friend  
currently has 756kDSL which is plenty for feeding the server the 128kbs  
stereo stream and running a couple monitors back from the server.  Doing  
the server at the studio location would need T1 level bandwidth almost  
immediately and growth after that.  Frame Relay comes to mind.  Doing the  
server at my location with Cox.net is out of the question.

As I understand it, the T1 link is only the media and the actual  
connection to the Internet is part of what we pay ISPs for on a bandwidth  
basis.

Stay tuned,
Gene

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:39:33 -0700, Edward Norton <r00t3d at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> Wow, surprised nobody has mentioned Icecast yet.
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> http://icecast.org