On Friday 14 March 2003 07:59, Levi Burton wrote: > As far as paying for bandwidth - I am dirt poor. Unfortunately any site > related to music is going to be super bandwidth intensive as audio is > notoriously large in file size. Kind of a bummer. Of course membership I'm not sure it has to be. To an extent you can trade bandwidth for CPU and memory resources. I actually had this idea about six months ago, which I'm not going to have time to write the software for in the foreseeable future, called MusiCVS. Basically it would be a way for musicians collaborating on a project to upload their tracks in some lossless format like SHN, and download Ogg streams of mixes of the other collaborators' tracks to play to, like a guide vocal except with other instruments. Ogg has this ability to store a high bandwidth version of something and strip out a lower bandwidth version for streaming or whatever, but more interesting is the possibility of allowing people to actually mix the other collaborators' tracks together using some web interface that lets you preview your mixes using streaming Oggs. None of the original files would ever be altered so if people disagreed on a mix you could have multiple mixes. It was kind of an ambitious idea and would still be fairly bandwidth intensive once you got a few projects going, but not as bad as a fully uncompressed WAV file trading thing. I hope to still pursue it one day if no one else has implemented it by then. Rob
