Usenet Audio 136
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Carel writes "Everybody who has done some streaming knows the downside: as soon as you're getting popular the costs are getting sky-high. While there have been some efforts in the P2P area these didn't have the impact they need. Enter Usenet Audio, a project that uses the existing, distributed and proven Usenet as its medium. Check the site for details and for the beta-versions of the software (which is available for Linux, OS X and MS platforms)."
Congratulations (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Congratulations (Score:5, Insightful)
If this is true it will be bad for one reason.
The Usenet has always been a place where those in the 'know' could go to grab or share stuff. Making this mainstream will make this a target as well. If this were to ever become the new 'napster' it would only be a matter of time before laws would start to pop up to deal with it.
Re:Congratulations (Score:1)
i suppose it depends what time zone you're living in
Re:Congratulations (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Congratulations (Score:2)
Hmm. regulations.. yeah.. guess its still mostly free from those.. but uh.. in quite a few groups the signal/noise ratio is even higher then with e-mail..
Re:Congratulations (Score:2)
Actually.... it's been used before. (Score:2)
In the days when ripping a CD with your desktop might've taken the better part of a day, there were folks sending MP3s over usenet. Sure, you had to re-combine 20 articles to get a file, and they weren't recorded at all that high of a quality, but it was a start.
Of course, only a few new songs came by each day/week, and if you didn't grab them before your server purged them, they were gone. [which for
Re:Congratulations (Score:3, Funny)
April Fools! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:April Fools! (Score:2, Funny)
Might as well pull a joke on myself now, Slashdot my page! [dealsites.net]
Oh the shame... I will be the fool.
Re:April Fools! (Score:1)
Re:April Fools! (Score:2)
Ughhhh! Am I going to have to endure a whole day without the borg guy popping in from M$ and sturring up something? Just imagine the SCO and M$ news that might really be hiding behind the Data, er Date?!
Re:April Fools! (Score:1)
Re:April Fools! (Score:2)
New users are cute at times.
Welcome to slashdot.
Available on MS platforms? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Available on MS platforms? (Score:1)
I fall for every April Fools Day gag! (Score:2)
Re:I fall for every April Fools Day gag! (Score:2)
Re:I fall for every April Fools Day gag! (Score:2)
Most recently, I've actually been putting a lot of work into the docs on the Andromeda site -- it seems lots of people never knew about many of the features *already* available. ;)
I'm also trying to help highlight user sites, like bands that want their music shared.
PS, you're certainly free to contact me anytime via email.
-Scott
Re:I fall for every April Fools Day gag! (Score:2)
Re:I fall for every April Fools Day gag! (Score:3)
Re:I fall for every April Fools Day gag! (Score:2)
Here's the story of the name. I was joking around with my S.O. Amy, and I told her that I had replaced her with a perfect android replica. She asked, "what's my android name" and I just said "Andromeda."
When it came time to give it a name, that's what I picked.
PS, some people call it Andromedia anyway... ;)
Re:I fall for every April Fools Day gag! (Score:2)
Yeah, and I fall for that too... ;)
Re:Available on MS platforms? (Score:4, Funny)
Not true! Some helpful groups:
comp.microsoft.bsod
microsoft.useless.posts.on.dotnet
alt.windows.0wn3d
alt.windows.no.you.stupid.piece.of.shit.just.do. it.damn.you
rec.windows.uninstall
Re:Available on MS platforms? (Score:1)
This is one of those times...
STOP CALLING THE NEWSGROUPS USENET! THE NEWSGROUPS __ARE__ __NOT__ USENET!!!
>>But nobody using Windows reads usenet.
>
>Not true! Some helpful groups:
>
>comp.microsoft.bsod
>rec.windows.un i nstall
^^ These 2 groups are UseNet groups. ^^
>alt.windows.0wn3d
>alt.windows.no.you.stupid.p iece.of.sh
Re:Available on MS platforms? (Score:2)
Re:Available on MS platforms? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Available on MS platforms? (Score:1)
Re:Available on MS platforms? (Score:2)
BS. (Score:5, Informative)
Also, searching google for "El-Katabi Investment" or "Nim services BV" (mentioned in their press page) returns no results. Those plugins likely just say "April Fools" over your speakers (if the plugins really exist: one online mirror has none of the files and the other says the limit of 500 users has been reached.)
The goofy idea of streaming over usenet aside, this sounds like YAAFJ (Yet Another April Fools Joke) to me.
Re:BS. (Score:2)
Re:BS. (Score:1)
Thanks. (Score: 5 Sarcasm)
Re:BS. (Score:2)
Re:BS. (Score:5, Funny)
Godwin's Law (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Godwin's Law (Score:2)
Seriously, Michael... (Score:1, Funny)
No, no, no (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:No, no, no (Score:1)
Of course, that doesn't mean that the carriers won't just cave when requested.
Damnit (Score:3, Funny)
PS: The moderation you're looking for is "funny", and not "troll"
Re:Damnit (Score:2)
You forgot the hand gesture to go along with that.
(Makes sweeping hand gesture) You will mod this post 'funny'.
Future versions promise to add... (Score:3, Funny)
text to song based audio is brilliant (Score:3, Funny)
"You light up my life, you give me hope, to carry on."
I'm pissed. (Score:5, Funny)
Did I mention the stories are lame?
Get a CLUE! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Get a CLUE! (Score:1)
or is it some kind of a joke inside a joke... Oh. Nevermind.
Re:Get a CLUE! (Score:2)
MAN I can't STAND you PEOPLE who can't GET A JOKE ABOUT GETTING JOKES ABOUT GETTING.....oh
I don't get it.
Re:I'm pissed. (Score:2)
Re:I'm pissed. (Score:2)
Now you've done it.
Re:I'm pissed. (Score:2)
Interesting.. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Interesting.. (Score:1)
I just wish more people would use it....
Re:Interesting.. (Score:2)
(Hey, is Howard Stern being streamed by fans on peercast? I'm just grabbing it off alt.binaries.howard-stern for now... those cocksucking ClearChannel bastards! :)
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Re:Interesting.. (Score:1)
came across this by chance, I see Howard Stern 4-1-04 as the 2nd station down.
Re:Interesting.. (Score:1)
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Re:Interesting.. (Score:2)
Re:Interesting.. (Score:1)
http://www.abacast.com/ [abacast.com]
Re:Interesting.. (Score:2)
Re:Interesting.. (Score:2)
Loading them up might help. Fool sovles problem. (Score:3, Insightful)
Right now they have little incentive - because enabling multicast for anything but distribution of their own "content" is perceived by ISPs as an added cost that provides them with no new revenue. So ISPs have an incentive not to enable it (or not to enable it generally even if it's on for themselves) while independent net-casters are stuck buying fat pipes to separately transmit streams to each customer - limiting their potential audience to
Re:Interesting.. (Score:2)
Would never happen (Score:5, Informative)
+4 informative? (Score:3, Funny)
Just a thought... (Score:3, Insightful)
You send out one packet and pay for it once, the routers split it as appropriate as it spreads. Any router that doesn't support multicast gets one packet for each recipient that must be routed through that node; therefore all ISPs can save money on bandwidth by enabling multicast.
The only downside is that packet storms that bring down whole sections of the internet become available. But, since its UDP and therefore the application should be packet loss tolerant, a simple throttling mechanism can be used.
Re:Just a thought... (Score:2)
Nice! (Score:1)
Nicely done! (SCORE: +5, Detailed)
great, let's shoot down another source (Score:2, Funny)
napster was great and all but if your mom hadn't heard about it then we'd still be downloading from it.
Re:great, let's shoot down another source (Score:1)
Ahem, don't forget DOS. (Score:3)
I _always_ surf usenet with my 286, 2400bps modem, and DOS. It is available for DOS as well.. Thanks
Great (Score:2)
On a more serious note, I remember working at "the U" back in the days (late 80s). I remember the news server disks had to be replaced on a regular basis, since they would wear out due to being constantly hammered. Considering how much crap floated around on newsgroups back then, I can only imagine how bad they are now.
Bit Torrent is better (Score:2)
BT wins over NNTP on a large number of grounds, not least of which is the end-user responsiveness which is so desired by stream consumers.
There's no need for anything like this (Score:2)
This looks like a joke, but (Score:4, Interesting)
I get most of .... (Score:2)
I've routinely seen 5 gig packages of mp3's and flacs floating around
Re:I get most of .... (Score:2)
Re:I get most of .... (Score:2)
A legit idea (Score:2)
Wouldn't it be interesting to have a bittorrent type of streaming interface? You click "watch this video clip" and it connects to all the other people watching it so you don't have as much choppyness?
I think it would be a great extention to BT, personally.
Spleing? (Score:1)
"Current equipment on which the netwerks of most (A)DSL-providers are built"?
If you're serious about making an April Fool's joke, at least get it spelled right...
phozz
I Usenet for Audio (Score:1)
Who isn't usin'it?
Usenet Giraffes (Score:2)
tartan paint (Score:1, Funny)
Overheard at the Google offices... (Score:3, Funny)
heheheheheh (Score:4, Informative)
But here's a *real* project, StreamerP2P, [streamerp2p.com] that could use some coders to help out porting to linux and making packages that work.
hint fedora hint
What a ridiculous idea (Score:3, Funny)
There are far, far better ways to move music around. Streaming audio, P2P, even FTP would be far better choices. These guys must be mad to even consider this.
bring em on (Score:2)
Unison by Panic? (Score:2)
Well maybe this project is about something entirely else, but does anybody ever read the articles around here? Yeah, I thought so
Just use Peercast (Score:1)
Please don't forget P2P-Radio (Score:1)
http://p2p-radio.sourceforge.net/
-pjc
Hell of a lot of work for not-particularly-funny (Score:1)
Someone's got too much time on their hands... On the other hand, the idea of kiting streaming media through the usenet servers is some food for thought... 1 second MP3s? That's probably the biggest clue that it's a joke...
Say goodbye (Score:1)
Something similar exists; not a joke. (Score:2)
The trouble with usenet and Freenet is that they're both very high latency. Great for your everyday muzak feed, but not ideal if you want to run a breaking-news station.
Meshcast Live Peer 2 peer audio (Score:1)
those iterested can see more at www.livecamserver.com and www.ecip.com
Re:Enough, k? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Enough, k? (Score:1)
Re:Enough, k? (Score:3, Funny)
Ugh, shoot me now...
You're new here, aren't you?
Just to add to the chaos (Score:2)
Got this in my inbox this morning:
1) Go to http://www.google.com/
2) Type in: weapons of mass destruction (DO NOT hit return)
3) Hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button, NOT the "Google search"
Enjoy...
SB
Re:Purple-haired moonbabes run LINUX! (Score:2)
Re:slashdot crying wolf? (Score:1)
Hahahahaha!! Sorry.. that's the funniest thing I've seen all day.
Re:I hate April First... the jokes are lame. (Score:4, Insightful)
At least when Taco is at the helm on April Fool's, better stories get posted. I remember some of the really clever April Fool's days of Slashdot's past, where the fun part was guessing which was real and which was fake. It was always hard to tell.
Re:I hate April First... the jokes are lame. (Score:2)