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Well we’re aligned on the social media front. I’m working on spinning up a label for managing a personal release, and as part of it want to be able to self hos
by 52-6F-62 5y ago
Well we’re aligned on the social media front.
I’m working on spinning up a label for managing a personal release, and as part of it want to be able to self host and stream some tracks from releases or singles for free without just linking an easily interceptable mp3 in an audio element. So, mainly inspired from his efforts with Orastream, but of course without infrastructure there.
To save myself rambling further, I’m aiming to release, open sourced under the label, a containerized boilerplate for self hosting a server and client nodes that operate seekable audio streaming (for FLAC at first) and standard artist site content (bio, media, etc). Mainly as an option for artists with a bit of know how but not enough resources for something more robust so that they can operate independently of any other services if they wanted.
From there I’m hoping people would see enough value to contribute and to build on it from there.
I’ll definitely take your cues. While I doubt I’ll struggle any time in my life with Neil’s kind of numbers, maybe someone else would.
Thanks for the insights! That guy has been a hero of mine since I was young. Still is.
- mikeryan 5y agoYeah OraStream really isn’t that magical it’s based on a spec (I can’t find it right now) that’s basically just a variation of HLS. Audio only HLS with high bitrate renditions with pretty much any encoder (ffmpeg) should work as a pretty straightforward drop in for what OraStream does. Dash should work as well.
- 52-6F-62 5y agoThat's more or less the plan! But on a small scale for self-deployment. Thankfully had a little experience with high bitrate streams at Rogers, at least superficially. Did your team build the player itself as well? The meter for bitrate was a nice touch!