[SBC Yahoo DSL foo]
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Originally posted by kevishev
What a fucking righteous concept dude!!!
I don't know how they are able to do this, but it is increddible!
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I know exactly how they do it. They were doing a demo of it at the last NAB convention I was at.
It essentially requires a single, individual Aural Moon class computer, running a highly customized SAM-like interface.
For each user.
In case you didn't catch that last bit, allow me to emphasize:
FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL USER
For a fan base the size of Aural Moons, where we consistently have 150-200 listeners at any given time, this would bring our personal streaming costs upwards of $150-200 THOUSAND dollars. Per month. That's over a million and a half a year.
Now I know Jim's got some serious finances going on, and I, for one, am REALLY glad he does (since I couldn't afford to run this site on my budget, even if we were to move everything into Vax's basement).
In short, not really practical for our uses.
Let SBC/Yahoo do their thing. I think Scharcnorr has a point -- one of the things that make Aural Moon what it is is the people behind it. Not just Jim and myself, but you. And everyone else reading this. The input from the user base makes it much more than just a conduit for the All Zappa All The Time Hour.
Calling Kev a traitor for investigating other avenues isn't entirely fair, nor is it accurate. He simply seems to be investigating an alternate method of getting cool toons.
Of course, one of the things that makes Aural Moon a community is that it's much more than just random streaming of music. We have the daily theme, we have other such things as well. Y'all are a part of what makes Aural Moon worth busting butt over.
Roger -Dot- Lee, just my $.03 CDN, adjusted for inflation and custom duties.