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The Launch of Roadcasting

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I clipped the following from Radio Currents Online beradio.com
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The Launch of Roadcasting
Pittsburgh - Jun 23, 2005 - Touted as collaborative, mobile radio, Roadcasting allows each listener to have his own radio station, broadcast among wireless-capable devices. The system can become aware of individual preferences and is able to choose songs and podcasts that listeners want to hear on their own devices from sources around them.

The developers state that a listener can scan and access playlists from other vehicles within a 50km range and share his audio files with the same network. The service uses a long-range peer-to-peer wireless network in which each car is its own radio station. The prototype runs on an 802.11g wireless network.

Currently a prototype, the system was designed to provide a community-driven, interactive medium. The prototype is the result of a seven-month project at the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute. The project was funded by a major automaker and has a targeted release of 2010.

Roadcasting uses a listener's preferences to make decisions about what a listener might want to hear. The system can read Itunes XML and MP3 data to gather information.

For use in a car, a Roadcaster will need an in-dash interface unit and an antenna. As an added feature, drivers can share information about road conditions and emergencies through the network.

The source code for Roadcasting is available to encourage development. More information is available at www.roadcasting.org.
 
Fascinating.

Sounds a bit convoluted if outside a metroplex of any significant size. A fan of King Sunny Ade is out of luck in the midwest...
 
> Fascinating.
>
> Sounds a bit convoluted if outside a metroplex of any
> significant size. A fan of King Sunny Ade is out of luck in
> the midwest...

Fixed 802.11 alone or in networks may be a serious alternative for community broadcasters as well. Instead of serving the Internet, you can serve streams from an audio and/or video server. However, a limitation is the limited transmit power of portable devices, such as WiFi equipped PDA's...each device receiving a stream has to 'ack' back to the main server every so often. License free, panelized 802.11 solutions are surprisingly cheap.
 
Wouldn't it be great if Media Consolidation and corporate influence on the FCC were simply bypassed by innovative ideas like this and they all end up staggering around saying: "What happended?".

> > Fascinating.
> >
> > Sounds a bit convoluted if outside a metroplex of any
> > significant size. A fan of King Sunny Ade is out of luck
> in
> > the midwest...
>
> Fixed 802.11 alone or in networks may be a serious
> alternative for community broadcasters as well. Instead of
> serving the Internet, you can serve streams from an audio
> and/or video server. However, a limitation is the limited
> transmit power of portable devices, such as WiFi equipped
> PDA's...each device receiving a stream has to 'ack' back to
> the main server every so often. License free, panelized
> 802.11 solutions are surprisingly cheap.
>
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