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Unread 2 Oct 2005, 01:12   #30
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Re: Planetarion Radio

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Originally Posted by Igloo
that goes away from my origninal idea, of a music station primarily.

with other things in it, and pod casting invlves having somewhere to load the inforamtion from. so it would be slow if we assume 600 people lsiten to it (i.e. ingame as well).

means that we need a large serevr, wich can cope with the amounts of stata needing to be sent.
That however has been one of the reasons PARadio has fallen over on numourous occasions, the focus has simply been wrong. Music tastes are not a common factor between PA Players, which means at anyone time your probally alientaing 80% of potential listeners in the community, Coupled with the fact that timezones will also knock a good percentage of the listeners out also your producing what is in the end a very niche peice of programing. Now products aimed at niche markets arent always a bad thing but PA itself is also a product ina niche market so your aiming your limited appeal product at a userbase which is playing a game thats also a limited appeal product whcih isnt good. Now theres one thing which most people here have in common and which hence has a high levelof appeal and thats Planetarion. It will be these planetarion elements of the radio which are the attraction NOT the music and thats what needs pushed to be a success.

As for distribution of a podcast, its alot easier than you think if you think about it. All you really need is

1) An FTP server on a server with a fairly high speed line.
2) A Bitorrent Tracker
3) Volenteers

Your produce your show and upload it to the FTP server. The FTP server will be accesable to your team of volnteers only. Each of these wil download at a highish speed from your FTP server. Once a few people have the file you will publish the file on your tracker and hand the torrent file over to your volenteers whom will acts as seeds. The torrent will then be released on a larger scale and people will start downloading it. The more people downloading and sharing the easier it is to share it

If you want to offer an archive of shows then after a certain time when the torrent will have died it could be uploaded somewhere to download as the traffic would be lowish

Jolt also could maybe help out with bandwith and if not then something like http://creativecommons.org/ will host anything which doesnt infringe copyright and hence the podcast without copyright music would be fine
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