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- posted by Vincent @ 12/20/2003 06:39:10 PM

 
Abacast: audio, video stream hosting server software
Abacast: audio, video stream hosting server software

I have been digging Jazz 88 on the Internet tonight at http://KSDS-FM.org. Digging it enough to write that last bit. And the sound is so totally good. And it's Peer 2 Peer. The Abacast technology is very cool in that it essentially puts you in the chain so you're sharing your stream with the next listener.

The current impetus is to ask the Abacast folks how I get some text, preferably XML (RSS), to display in the Windows Media Viewer while the Jazz 88 audio stream is...streaming?

But then I thought as I wrote the coolness of it above...wouldn't it be cool to see the action of the Peer to Peer-ness of a Jazz 88 over Abacast session being displayed on the screen while you listened to Jazz 88. Very weblogish. A new posting when you get in the stream...where you are, who you're sharing the Jazz 88 stream with, where they are from. A new posting when someone leaves. It's now sounding very chat room-ish. The Jazz 88 Abacast RSS Channel. We can add that to the Jazz 88 RSS aggregated stream.

All of this displayed and heard and experienced. Jazz 88 listening (and weblogging) community.
- posted by Vincent @ 12/20/2003 01:02:03 AM

 
Quicktime Adds RSS and Atom Multimedia Streaming Support
Apple announced Quicktime Player and Web Page Plug-in support for Streaming RSS Enclosures. Wow. And who would have thought it would happen just when I was thinking about something I want to do in a browser window or a media player...

Simultaneously:

Streaming the Jazz88 Stream in MP3. In the Quicktime Player.

Streaming the Jazz 88 iBooth-cam (via iSight) as background (or foreground). In the Quicktime Player.

Streaming TNJT Tunes RSS Feed into the foreground. In the Quicktime Player.

Quicktime as the RSS Multimedia Player.

Get Quicktime running on the iPod and you've got a Portable Multimedia RSS Player. Wi-Fi the iPod and you stream it.

Is Quicktime player available on mobile phone platforms? Imagine that connectivity...dial a number, RSS with Enclosures downloads and begins playing on the phone.

OK...so am I just dreaming or is this at all possible with the Quicktime or any player today?

And the RSS would not just be any RSS, but RSS aggregated from the RSS enabled weblogs of Jazz Lovers. Jazz Lovers writing about New Jazz Things! The things they hear 24 / 7 on Jazz 88 and want to write about. And you can bet the RSS enabled hopefully-soon-to-be-released Jazz 88 playlist would aggregated in there quite prominently! The soundtrack of your mind at the time of your writing, about Jazz, is crucial. Thus the tunes and spots and such eminating from Jazz 88 should be in the RSS flow. I've muttered on about this before. This is another angle.

Oh, and I'm sure Quicktime would support Atom feeds too. Wouldn't some tie in between Atom and the Quicktime player be a totally most sellable item on the format. Show Quicktime doing cools things with Atom...maybe it's Quicktime integrating over the Internet with the Atom or Blogger or Meta-Weblog or whatever API to pull weblog / website content into Quicktime for playback. And again, none of this locks out Windows Media, or Real Media, or Winamp, or Apple iTunes, or any other interface to take advantage of RSS / Atom / Weblog content as something fresh to display along with the other multimedia types you support.

Another angle before I collapse is potential for transforming RSS / ATOM to exisiting streaming scripting lingo / commands / format.

OK...is it possible to do what I started out with...RSS in Quicktime?
- posted by Vincent @ 12/20/2003 12:41:01 AM