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Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Last week, one of my colleagues introduced me to something he discovered.  Check out the information about Streamer, then continue reading this post. 

Essentially, Streamer combines streaming radio with BitTorrent; you can listen to a radio stream on the Internet, and then you can serve that stream out for others, sharing bandwidth.  Obviously, you can stream content out much more efficiently than you could with Shoutcast or some other streaming tool.  The cool part, though, is that someone can stream any broadcast out.  My coworker discovered this while trying to find a way to listen to Howard Stern

Our office locations preclude us from tuning in Stern's show, and since Stern has not embraced the Internet for streaming his show--it has a lot to do with money, from my understanding of it.  There have been other ways to get his show, but they were somewhat labor-intensive affairs.  For example, the process normally went something like visit some Howard Stern newsgroup, grab all of the attachments using Outlook Express, put them together using Outlook Express, and sacrifice a virgin in the hopes that doing this would produce a working file of the Stern show.  I knew some geek would get this to work better, and Streamer has obviously done so. 

I still do not think that it has anything on podcasting, which allows listeners to queue up content and play it at their leisure via their media player.  Podcasts allow a listener to no longer be tethered to their desktop. 

Nonetheless, I wholeheartedly say that you should give Streamer a whirl. 

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