Dutch Experimental IPv6 MP3 Stream Relay

Remco den Besten writes "In order to promote the IPv6 protocol, some Dutch enthousiasts deploy an IPv6 MP3 stream relay server. So, do something different with your IPv6 connectivity and listen to the streams offered! See & listen (both IPv4 and IPv6)."

Re:Why do we need IPv6 ?

[Mopatop]

Because we're gonna run out of IPv4 address, and port forwarding is very annoying. IPv6 is the future, but it's just not gonna work if we leave it up to the users to do something about it.

Re:Lol ...

[BabyDave]

What we should do is tell 'Boss' that MP3s sound better if we stream them over IPv6. Hey, we could take it even further and claim that it improves the quality of images, video streams, and also makes pr0n stars look hotter!

Re:Lol ...

[Dog and Pony]

"ohhh pretty colors, we'll buy it!!"

In my experience, that is how bosses make buying descisions...

As well as the average Joe, just today, after recommening an acquintance several Linux distros (he is looking to try it, out of interest), he asked: "What about Lindows? Look how good this looks!" and gave this link to a *really* silly flash commercial: http://images.lindows.com/closed/LindowsRock.html [lindows.com].

Look and learn folks! This is apparently how you get users... sigh.

Why modded funny? It's TRUE!

[Anonymous Coward]

I believe that porn is also the reason the VCR really took off. You can watch pornos in the privacy of your own home. Isn't it great? I'd also have to say that if virtual reality ever takes off, it'll most likely be because of porn. Don't laugh. It's true.

Re:I don't want to be a killjoy

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

The point is you can listen to it without wasting disk space. Also turns you on to new music you otherwise wouldnt know about. I dont listen to traditional radio, nor do I watch mtv -- The only way I can learn about new music is streams and word of mouth.

Listening to a good stream has a much better flow to -- Random mp3s jump from song to song, but a good stream is setup more like a good radiostation, where songs flow together rather than jumping from an aggressive song to some slow ballad

PARENT NOT FLAMEBAIT... LIGHTEN UP

[Anonymous Coward]

Was THIS the quote that led to the post being modded down?

"Using IP6 for this thing, are they? Sounds hi-tech, but I hope it works for all the IPv6 users out there. Both of them!"

If so, I really think this joke about the slow pace in which IPv6 is being adopted should really be taken as just that. A joke. And as a few child posters pointed out, music and porn DO drive technology.

RIAA in IPv6?

[kyoko21]

It's great that they are now streaming in IPv6. I wonder when RIAA will track them down and force them to pay the royalties on the audio streams they are providing. Perhaps people will start migrating p2p applications to IPv6 so at least for the time being, RIAA will be behind the times. When RIAA catches up, just move the application to the new experimental IP stack. Welcome to the new cat-and-mouse game.

Re:RIAA can't do anything

[lewger]

That was the military not specifically the government, though I guess it's easy to mistake the military and the government these days...

Re:Uh, but?

[Triumph The Insult C]

If the RIAA can't seem to figure out how to find [theregister.co.uk] a reliable [theregister.co.uk] and sec [theregister.co.uk] ure [theregister.co.uk] webhost [theregister.com], I somehow think people using IPv6 are safe ... for now.

Re:Run out ?!?!

[Anonymous Coward]

NAT creates all sorts of problems, by design, not by implementation. The lack of IPv4 addresses in the near future is obvious, it's not debatable, it's a fact. If you don't believe it, start counting people on this planet, multiply (at least) by 3 for one phone, one computer and one infrastructure device. See if that fits into 32 bits. IPv6 offers many more improvements, but if you're too blind to see the most obvious one, you probably won't appreciate the rest.

IPv6 DOES sound better!

[The Creator]

If the multicasting(that saves bandwidt) means the station can up the bitrate.

heh, promotion, yeah. Good one.

[fuali]

It really cracks me up that this is a site to promote stuff. With its lack of design, poor English (yes I know they are Dutch), and tech talk, it is only preaching to the choir.

The problem with IPv6, and for that matter just about any open-source project, is not that it lacks the marketing budget, it's that it's promoted by pale faced geeks that don't know or care about the rest of the world thinks.

Well without the "outside world's" approval nothing will happen. IPv6 is dead in the water unless one of the following to things happens.

1) The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is completely transparent. If a user has any compatibility problems or has to type anything into a command line forget it. If you have to rely on the public to actually learn something and do it, game over.

2) Every manufacturer of software and hardware will have to plan the obsolescence of IPv4. Like they are trying to do with HDTV, What they did with Vinyl LP's and Eight Tracks. This will take years, and when they finally have it, it too will be obsolete.

Re:I don't want to be a killjoy

[JamieF]

Dear Sir,
After reading your recent /. post, I'm sorry to inform you that you've forfeited your rights to bitch about any of the following topics:
- Consolidation of ownership of radio stations
- Consolidation of news media into the hands of a few powerful corporations
- How much talk radio sucks
- Consolidation of popular music into a few "blockbuster" boy bands / half-naked babes
- How much it sucks that the RIAA controls music distribution
- Payola
etc.

Sorry you don't love Shoutcast but part of the reason that *most* but not *all* internet radio stations suck is that it still costs a lot to operate one - you have to have a ton of bandwidth.

The exciting thing about IPv6 streaming radio is that there's almost no incremental cost to adding listeners - sorta like radio, but without the spectrum limitation. It completely changes the way that internet radio works. One schmoe with DSL would be able to reach (via multicasting) every single person on the internet, if they wanted to listen. That's huge. Think about what that would do to P2P. No queueing for the same file - everybody downloads it at once from the same stream.

Pervasive multicasting makes some amazing things possible, and really gives the shaft to The Man.