libre.fm and the <audio/> tag
By Paul Rouget on Tuesday 7 July 2009, 15:46 - shared - Permalink
Libre.fm is a free music streaming service.
It's based on the <audio/> tag, OGG/Vorbis, and the code is under the GNU AGPL.
Matt Lee wrote:
Jamendo, one of the leading sources of free as in freedom music (see freedomdefined.org) makes a database dump available, we parse that dump, extract music under the licenses we want and import the stream URLs into our database. We also have music from other sources, such as the artists sites, Internet Archive, etc.
We have our own player, written in JavaScript around the audio tag in HTML 5. Anyone is free to use it on their own site, and we'll soon be making it really easy for people and bands to do this.
The music is streamed, in Ogg Vorbis, to the client. For us, Ogg Vorbis support in the browsers is key -- we're never going to stream in MP3 or H.264, because like Libre.fm, Ogg Vorbis is about freedom
Comments
I only have one thing to say.... PLEASE tell me that Pioneers of the Inevitable is keeping an eye on this sort of thing. Sounds rather relivent to what they do.