Sundial is setting up Icecast, which is compatable with Shoutcast(WinAmp).  That's about as far as we've gotten so far

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I play MMOs. I need a signature which is deep, thought provoking, and devours bandwidth with the voracity of rabid weasels. It is also, by nature, vaguely sad with a tinge of my obvious internal, unfathomable loneliness. Like this,   , but at 1.3megs packed into 2 by 6 inches. ANIMATED.

Do you need a licence to broadcast music or as long as the music is legally purchased and licences for broadcast it's okay?

No sure of the laws of internet radio stations.

But I do like the idea. The devs make a lot of music and I am sure they'd send you days worth to play.

So, in second life we did something like this and were able to allow multiple djs to use the stream, it was automated so the dj could log in and take the stream without needing an admin - but I think that was because of the internal program. That would be a nice feature though, otherwise your having to give admin to everyone that's going to be streaming.

We can play all styles of music... it won't just be "Techno" music. Its whatever the players of perpetuum want to volunteer to play. Of course no corporate bias to anyone... This is strictly about the community.

It would be cool to have the radio in-game, as part of the gaming experience. Ambient loops taken to the next level. With occasional broadcasts of something interesing/useful in addition to music.

Stand-alone is not (interesting) enough.

Music is a filler, I'm sure the idea is to put player content for and about Perp into the mix. Maybe with Grem's permission replay the pod cast at 5PM everyday or something like that, as well as other player casts.

@Doek
This "technicality" provides a) ease of access and b) strong association with the game (by the virtue of always being there, under the slider in the options menu).

I won't argue for the usefulness of in-game radio (I just think it's a cool idea). But other things being equal, out-of game station has less chances of becoming something.

Yep... by doing it as a community thing without profit involved, organizations that collect royalties don't really care.

None of my music is RIAA, but I am sure what some people will want to play will be. But it won't matter as its not officially part of anything "for profit"

after all we've been through!? I deserve more than 2 lines and a see ya round.

I know your a fan of the virtual night clubs, com'n .... ya know its true.

I'd better recommend you to contact DEVs with next thing - you write PO-loke music, they add best of it into the game, both alpha and beta islands (last ones are hardly need new music imho).

If there is not only music you want to add (i.e. podcasts aswell), then anyway, PO should have some internal mechanic for such things. Everything external will be not enough popular.

While adding audio streaming capability to the client would be relatively simple, I don't see that's it necessary.. then again from the blog the Dev's like to hand code everything instead of using canned code, so maybe not so straight-forward.

In any case, while I'm sure the idea is to have as many players listen as possible, worrying about market penetration for a community project is secondary at best. If no one listens to the stream because its not built into the client, then I guess the online players will miss out on some great 80's tunes...