Showing posts with label internet radio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet radio. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Remote DJ

It is not a robotic dj or a remote controlled dj. When we say 'remote' it means far away or in distant manner. Maybe another term would be 'virtual'.

I think this will be the next thing in discotheque and clubs. No djs around, just a flat screen where you could see a familiar face and familiar kind of music that's coming out  from the surrounding speakers. The dj is remotely broadcasting his mastery of mixing music at his own backyard or maybe from another club.

This is remote or virtual dj. It's another service that audio streaming can bring to the club scene. Imagine a dj will play simultaneously in 3 different clubs at different places, this can be done with audio streaming. One great party simultaneously feed or broadcast in different places, it will be the party of all parties. I think in some club this is already taking place.

Roxas City are we ready for this? Roxas Audio Stream is ready!

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Audio Streaming

WHAT IS AUDIO STREAMING - It's a method of delivering an audio signal to your computer over the Internet, and differs from the "normal" method of receiving Internet audio in one important way: instead of having to download a ".mp3" or other type of audio file completely before being able to listen to it, you hear the sound as it arrives at your computer, and therefore do not have to wait for a complete download. As the data arrives it is buffered for a few seconds and then playback begins. As the audio is playing, more data is constantly arriving (or streaming), and as long as you are receiving a constant stream of data, you should hear constant audio. Think of a bucket (the buffer) with a hole in the bottom, being topped up with water (the data). As long as there is water in the bucket, it will continue to pour out of the hole, and will do this as long as there is water in the bucket. Similarly, as long as there is data in the buffer, you will continue to hear sound.

There are two major components involved: the streaming server and the source client. The streaming server will be the place where all listeners of your station will connect. The source client (in general) runs on a separate machine than the streaming server, but does not necessarily need to. Source clients send the content to the streaming server and provide the stream data (encoded audio) that is then relayed out to listeners by the streaming server.

For end users (listener), they need to have a media player installed on their computer in order to listen or receive the stream (audio). Most common media player that can receive audio streaming are windows media player, winamp, vlc media player and itunes.