Digital Sound and Remix:Media Streaming Lecture

Lecture Outline

 * What do you all know about streaming media?
 * What are you favorite streams?
 * How does streaming media work.
 * Difference between client and server
 * How to set up a server
 * Who is doing interesting things with streaming?
 * Is anyone interested?
 * What file formats?
 * mp3
 * ogg
 * quicktime
 * windows media
 * realplayer

Glossary

 * "Streaming media is media that is consumed (read, heard, viewed) while it is being delivered."
 * stream: to deliver

Questions

 * What is Streaming Media?
 * What is the difference between client and server?
 * Is it hardware specific?
 * Does it cost to set this up?
 * How do you set it up?
 * Why would you want to set this up?
 * What is needed for streaming to work?
 * bandwidth
 * computing power
 * (optionally) participants

Artists

 * Scanner
 * Future Sound of London

Stations

 * http://www.shoutcast.com/
 * http://www.live365.com/

Technology

 * Shoutcast
 * Icecast
 * Quicktime & Apple Darwin Streaming Server
 * Microsoft Windows Media & Streaming Server
 * Fluendo
 * RealPlayer