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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