UID:
edocfu_9961556792302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (297 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st edition
ISBN:
1-138-14748-6
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1-136-02922-2
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1-136-02921-4
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0-08-052091-X
Inhalt:
Anyone wanting to set up a low cost web radio station will benefit from the advice and information provided by this book. Not only will you gain technical and practical know-how to enable your station to go live, but also an appreciation of the legal and copyright implications of making radio, potentially for international audiences and in the rapidly evolving environment of the web.To succeed, your radio content will need to be carefully planned and your station properly promoted. Advice is given on taking advantage of the scalability web radio introduces for b
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Web Radio; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 What is radio on the Web?; What's new about the New Medium?; The Internet on the phone system; The Web floats on the Internet; Bringing radio to the Web; Radio was an interactive medium; Vertical versus horizontal radio communication; Radio listening was shaped in the Broadcast Century; A note on DAB; Summary; Further reading; 2 . . .And what web radio isn't; Convergence of digitalized media technologies; Divergence of media uses; Radio's relationship with the music industry
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The many forms of audio on the InternetStreaming; Downloading and shopping for music online; Downloading radio programmes at high sound quality; Web radio's relationship to other radio transmission routes; Radio in the visual world of multimedia; The website is the web radio station's 'front door'; Websites with additional audio; Interactivity and the visual; Web TV; A summary of intersections for web radio; Further reading; 3 Stream receivers and how the listener listens; How streaming works - an overview; 'Packet switching' technology; A note on 'embedded' audio files; Starting the stream
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ISP connections, bandwidth and connection speedsThe common tools of compression - streaming software products; Desktops and laptops as radios; Off the shelf dedicated web radio devices; Portable radio around the house; Web radio back in the ether?; Summary; Further reading; 4 Streaming radio output; Scalability; Who runs the server?; Host streaming services; Running your own server; Selecting your audience; Measuring your audience; Encoding and streaming server software products; Managing the server; The streaming studio; Summary; Further reading; 5 Established radio broadcasters on the Web
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Interactivity on the station websiteVirginradio.co.uk case study; The simulcast stream of the terrestrial output; Radio Netherlands case study; Archive streams of parts of the terrestrial output; CFUV FM case study - a small Canadian university and community station; The addition of 'side channels'; Summary; 6 Internet-only stations and other adventures in web radio; Interactivity and the website; RadioValve case study; Using a host to handle radio streaming; Pulse Radio case study - Global Dance Radio; Exploring speech radio alternatives
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Radio Voix Sans Frontières (Voices Without Frontiers) case studyWeb radio across the digital divide; Kothmale Community Radio Internet Project (KCRIP) case study; Summary - web radio is an experiment; 7 One voice in a very large crowd: getting heard; Some audience principles - push and pull; The hyperlink is the key; Web radio portals or aggregating sites; Other online radio tuners; Web radio directories, large and small; Outsourcing promotion; Registering your own domain name; The front end - web page design; Reputation; Offline promotion; Building a brand; Summary; Further reading
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8 Copyright on web radio
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-299-81402-6
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-240-51635-4
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780080520919
