Internet Radio / Distribution of Music Project Topics
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The major impediment to multimedia on the web has been bandwidth - the amount of data that can be transferred to the user's browser. Until recently, most users had only a 14.4K modem, which was not really adequate for sound or video. 28.8K marks the lower end of the useful multimedia bandwidth range, and if you want to design your web site to reach these users, you will need to be cautious in your use of bandwidth.

WIth the use of efficient standards for streaming media such as MP3 - the move for people to start up their own radion stations (or basically streaming media playlists) has become more common place.

For a project here, you could use a product such as ShoutCast to set up a radio station/playlist. You may want to examine other such products prior to commencing. There are links below which may help you but they are not spcific to the above topic, none the less, check them out.

The WebDeveloper.com Secret Guide to RealAudio WebDeveloper.com October 13, 2000

Making RealAudio files is easy and can be completely free. First, you make a good audio recording in your favorite format, which is usually a .WAV file. Then, you encode it using the free RealProducer program for Windows ( or Mac, Linux, or Unix). And if you wish, get a free server for high-efficiency streaming (or read this article to learn how to skip the server altogether!).

Building an Internet Radio Station Charlie Morris September 25, 2000

Internet radio is one of the new Web's killer applications, beating out the traditional AM/FM kind in several departments. Although there's already a huge amount of material out there, there are still opportunities for creative people to develop new cutting-edge music sites. If you're thinking of setting up your own Internet radio station, here's a broad overview of how to do it, including the technical and legal angles.

Tricks & Data, Flash Yin & Yang PS Woods April 17, 2000

Bubba, a typical client, wants you to build a Flash application that will allow him to input and display showtimes at his movie theatre. In addition, he wants to be able to update his showtimes in a .txt file that the Flash movie can read. Yin-n-Yang walks you through just such a scenario and shows you how to give Bubba precisely what he wants.

Digital Distribution of Music Charlie Morris March 27, 2000

From a half-dozen two years ago, the number of places to buy music online has climbed into the thousands. Will the major record labels disappear like the dinosaurs to which they've so often been compared? Not likely. But it's now clear that independent music distributors are going to be a far bigger piece of the picture than ever before. Anyone involved in the music business, from record companies to distributors to retailers, needs to stay up on the latest trends in online music distribution. This article, which will focus on the current state of music distribution over the Web, with an emphasis on what a small record company, music retailer or artist can do to market music online.
Currently there are several incompatible schemes for inserting multimedia objects into web pages. Developers have been experimenting with ideas for dealing with new media: Microsoft's DYNSRC attribute for video and audio, Netscape's EMBED tag for compound document embedding, and Sun's APP and APPLET tags for executable code. Each of these proposed solutions attacks the problem from a slightly different perspective, and on the surface are each very different. In addition, each of these proposals falls short, in one way or another, of meeting the requirements of the Web community as a whole. The W3C proposes a unifying OBJECT tag:

"..which subsumes the role of the IMG tag, and provides a general solution for dealing with new media, while providing for effective backwards compatibility with existing browsers. OBJECT allows the HTML author to specify the data, and/or properties/parameters for initializing objects to be inserted into HTML documents, as well as the code that can be used to display/manipulate that data. Here, the term object is used to describe the things that people want to place in HTML documents, but other terms for these things are: components, applets, plug-ins, media handlers, etc. "

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