Re: Shoutcast and Live365.com

From: Don Knox (donknox@pacbell.net)
Date: Fri May 26 2000 - 16:57:49 MET DST

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    If you guys and gals have not checked out Chad's live365 station, all I can say
    is go do it. The man's got the hottest playlist on the web. I suspect the large
    majority of the subscribers here will find something they like. Granted, it's
    pure downtempo, but offers a very diverse range of artists.

    Chad -- distribute your station link to the group my man...

    chad downbeat wrote:

    > markeg,
    >
    > live365.com and shoutcast.com are not the same entity. in fact live365 used
    > to forward their stations on to shoutcast (they would show up on the
    > shoutcast.com list). but due to lack of shoutcast to offer support for
    > advertising live365 stopped the procedure, hence the smaller number of
    > people on live365.
    >
    > i have a station on live365 that plays downtempo. it is in the top 10-12
    > everyday, which is kinda suprising with the crowd that gets supported on
    > live365 (there are ALOT more "rock" stations popin up and getting promoted
    > on the site). as though we dont have -enough- of that on everyday, local,
    > hometown radio. the site requires a cable modem/ISDN/DSL connection.
    >
    > if anyone is interested, you can email me.
    >
    > chad
    > tdb coordinator
    > mailto:chad@thedownbeat.org
    > http://www.thedownbeat.org/
    > the source for downtempo music information
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: markeg [mailto:markeg@virginconnect.com]
    > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 4:21 AM
    > To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
    > Subject: Shoutcast and Live365.com
    >
    > Dear list: i have been to both winamp/nullsoft/shoutcast radio page as well
    > as www.live365.com and the pages look the same . are they related? I guess
    > they both use nullsofts shoutcast technology to allow any one with apc to
    > webcast throught the web. but is it the same company. The pages look the
    > same in terms of layout and all. Both have a display showing how many
    > people are "tuned in" . The numbers are very small. smaller on live365 .com
    > than on winamp-radio but its a small number still listening to any one show
    > at any onetime . The only way to make money off this is to be the one
    > providing the server ,in this case nullsoft and www.live365.com. This may
    > be good in the populist sense but hardly the revolution in indeendent muic
    > we have been promised. you arent gonna break any new artists when you are
    > playing your "show" to 4 people (live365.com or 40 people on one of the
    > bigger winamp stations> . On the other hand we need someone on the list to
    > get his own show!
    > !
    > to represent the lists vibe on the net. I cant do as i surf from work and
    > on this crummy Virinconnect webpliance. but someone like jeroen could play
    > onef his cd on the web. Just get the space and play one of your cd "s.
    > You have already done the sequencing and mixing just rip it and play it on
    > the web
    > .



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