Posts Tagged ‘radio
Peer-to-Peer Online Jukebox with Songs from each User
Today we have Pandora, Spotify, GrooveShark, and a dozen other sites to listen to music online. Each has its own caveats, does not really let you hear the music you want, has ADs or a subscription model, …
I often wonder why nobody created an online peer-to-peer Jukebox where each user contributes with some songs. The songs will be played/streamed directly from the each other’s computers, so if only one user has a particular song, who wants to listen to it will have to wait its turn in a queue.
Assuming that all the songs in the system are regularly purchased, the software/system could be designed in such a way that the songs are directly played from the owner’s computer to the speaker of the listener. In this way, there would be no copyright infringement.
Song recommendations, suggestions, and personalized stations will be easy to implement on top of this, as well as creating hardware radios which directly play music from the service. The system could even connect to the various cloud storage system (e.g., iMusic, Amazon, …) and pick up your songs from there so you don’t need your machine on all the time.
