About streaming music: a question

Hi there,

Looking for some info on streaming audio for an event.

If I create a mp3 file and put it on my hosted server, will everybody then listen to the same music pieces or will they all get their own stream version and so out of sync music?

I thought I had seen (on some event) residents dancing in sync so the music must have been in sync to? But how?

Many thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Marcel

Dancing is not connected to the music at all. If you saw people dancing in synchrony with each other it was because they were using a multi-avatar dance machine. There are plenty out there for not too much L$.

You can put an MP3 on a server and have people listen to it, but each will hear the music start when they enter the parcel (or press "play". This also limits you to a single MP3 file, and if someone leaves and re-enters, they hear the file from the start again.

What SL dance clubs do is purchase the use of a third-party streaming server which allows all listeners to hear the same thing at the same time and also allows you to change playlists on the fly and add DJ voiceovers. I know that Shoutcast is one streaming server; I know there are others but don't know what they are called.

That's all I know on the subject. Hope that helps some.

Yup as Malachi says the avatars may have been synchronized together, but just a trick of the eye if they looked like they were dancing to the music

There is a handy page here on streaming music in second life, including steps for setting up various programs for streaming.

http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=083

Hope that helps

Jamie
Steaming Live Audio - Shoutcast / IceCast Hosting HQ (Bisque 245,155)

If live music and DJing isn't the focus of the event, but you want to have a bit of control over the tunes, I'd say edit together 5-10 tracks together into one file and make several 30 minute mp3s. Then you can switch it once in awhile.
You wouldn't need a live stream for it, and you won't have to pay much attention to it (just to switch the link in your land)