RE: Audio Broadcast

Thanks Mike and David for the responses.

At 02:01 AM 9/3/03 +1000, Mike Kear wrote:

>What country is the broadcast from?  It makes a HUGE difference.   What
>country is the server going to be in, and what country is the organisation
>owning the site going to be in?

All three answers are USA.

>For example in the USA, there is a HORRENDOUS cost associated with streaming
>audio, which has taken most of the US based on-line broadcasters off the air

Do you mean the charges from service providers who host streaming audio?

>In Australia, the bandwidth cost is gigantic, even though the royalty
>payments aren't.

I am working with instructional content so it won't require royalties.  My 
challenge is to find the cheapest, most accessible format to transmit 
blocks of audio content to a person's computer so they can listen to it.

At 08:01 AM 9/2/03 -1000, David wrote:

>IIRC, the Shoutcast streaming MP3 server software is
>available free.

Does that mean that I would have to run my own server from my office?  Do 
you think that is something that generic web hosting companies would do or 
would it require an expensive service provider?

I am thinking that a downloadable MP3 format might be the cheapest answer. 
People could listen on their machine or an MP3 device or burn an audio CD, etc.

Any further ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

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