[slim] Re: Streaming hosting services?
dverlaeckt Wrote: Hi all I need some advice regarding streaming services. My company wants to put a number of squeezeboxes in some small stores for background music. The idea is to stream self-made playlists to al the boxes simultaneously. The boxes will be turned on practically all the time. The stores have Cable or ADSL internet connections with limited upload (only around 256 kpbs and monthly upload limits). So the problem is that we can't put a slim server anywhere to directly stream the music because we don't have enough bandwith and traffic volume capabilities. So my question is: 1) Are there good streaming media services on the internet which can host our playlists. 2) What can we expect in terms of cost? TIA Dieter I'm not sure if it would help (or be the right answer) but Slimdevices were mentioning an offer of streaming bandwidth in return for Advertising... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18609 Nic -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18692 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Streaming hosting services?
or you may want to vote for bug#2661 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2661 This would allow for you to setup one slimserver on one host machine and have all your remote squeezeboxes communicating back to that one server. -- rme rme's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1551 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18692 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Streaming hosting services?
The only solution I can think of is this: You could have one location (or even your home?) run a pc beaming a playlist of your choice to a shoutcast server. You would have to get hosting for this such as what can be found here: http://shoutcast.serverroom.us/ (I don't know anything about that company, they're just one of the first that came up on google). Then have all your squeezeboxen connect to Squeezenetwork and tune into your custom radio station via Squeezenetwork. This would avoid you having to use tons of upload bandwidth--you'd only use the bandwidth necessary for a single stream and the shoutcast server would bear the brunt of distributing the stream. It would also allow you to run squeezeboxes at each location without having to have a computer at each site. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
