bpa wrote: 
> Most stations are played direct to player with no involvement of the
> server except in the case of transcoding or sync. If you were to make
> all traffic go through the server (which would might mean more powerful
> servers are needed and more local network bandwidth), then you could do
> a ring buffer but you might as well provide a PVR type functionality and
> save the stream to disk rather than hold it in memory.

If I understand our near future correctly, this will not be true
anymore. There is fantastic work on the player side (soft and hard)
being done right now, but perhaps sanctifying a server package wouldn't
hurt. A *Plug or something like it + an adequate version of SBSÂ… 

Actually this server thing is a question I have. Not for me, I don't use
mysb.com much and I do have a server. But I have other "customers".
Priority #1, my parents are now up to 3 Booms and 1 Classic, and
although there is an SBS installed somewhere they rely 99.999% on
mysb.com. 
I'm ready to give them a small server appliance to keep radio running
somehow (they're listening to a handful of fav radios) but I'd rather
apply a repeatable solution, with updates consisting (by and large) in
reloading a new version of a distro. I can already see 3 or 4 households
queuing behind my parent's and asking for a solution the day mysb.com
shuts down.


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