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Roedy Green - 29 Dec 2005 19:32 GMT

I heard an Internet radio show where the guest was not in the studio,
but his voice was CLEARER than the hosts! They explained they were
using some sort of digital telephone software.

I wonder if Internet interview radio is turnkey problem now, where you
get software to put together an MP3, software to give to guests, or
phone in callers for remote interview, and server software to deliver
BitTorrents, MP3s, streaming audio, or some sort of multicast.

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Jeffrey Schwab - 30 Dec 2005 00:06 GMT

> I heard an Internet radio show where the guest was not in the studio,
> but his voice was CLEARER than the hosts! They explained they were
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> phone in callers for remote interview, and server software to deliver
> BitTorrents, MP3s, streaming audio, or some sort of multicast.

I've recently started using VOIP at home and work, and I have to admit,
I'm impressed. There do seem to be occasional glitches that result in
annoying latency, but that might just be a QoI issue.

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Luke Meyers - 30 Dec 2005 07:43 GMT

I'm admittedly new here, so I don't know how casual the culture is
about off-topic posts, but... isn't this post rather off-topic? Is
there a Java-based implementation of digital radio that you're
interested in?

Luke

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Roedy Green - 30 Dec 2005 09:17 GMT

>I'm admittedly new here, so I don't know how casual the culture is
>about off-topic posts, but... isn't this post rather off-topic? Is
>there a Java-based implementation of digital radio that you're
>interested in?

The answers would likely be. But I was interested in broader answers
too. Traffic is down just now, so there is less need than usual to be
rigid about topics.

The idea has long been an interest of mine for a Java student project.
I am also interested in it for political reasons. Internet radio seems
to me a great tool for democracy to counter the effect of big money
and broadcast TV dominating the information sources.

see http://mindprod.com/projects/internetradio.html

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Gordon Beaton - 30 Dec 2005 09:31 GMT

> Traffic is down just now, so there is less need than usual to be
> rigid about topics.

Nonsense. An off topic post in low traffic is still off topic, but
degrades the signal-noise ratio *more* than it would have in periods
of high traffic.

/gordon

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Andrew McDonagh - 30 Dec 2005 09:33 GMT

>>Traffic is down just now, so there is less need than usual to be
>>rigid about topics.
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> /gordon

agreed!

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steve - 01 Jan 2006 21:51 GMT

>>> Traffic is down just now, so there is less need than usual to be
>>> rigid about topics.
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>
> agreed!

jez!!
The internet police are out in force today, what's up boys? waiting for the
new year , nothing to do?

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Jeffrey Schwab - 31 Dec 2005 02:37 GMT

> I'm admittedly new here, so I don't know how casual the culture is
> about off-topic posts, but... isn't this post rather off-topic? Is
> there a Java-based implementation of digital radio that you're
> interested in?

Roedy contributes a great deal to this group. The post may be a little
off-topic, but I think he's earned some slack. :)

But while we're on the topic...

Can anyone here recommend good, open-source Java-based VoIP (or internet
radio) libraries? This seems like almost a perfect application for
Java, since more or less the same code needs to run on all kinds of
client devices. A few minutes with google turn up surprisingly little.

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