The development of an interactive music station over Internet

Abstract

An Internet Interactive Music Station (IMS) is presented in this paper: The IMS system is a personal audio multicast transmission system and provides an interactive environment over Internet. The IMS server site plays the DJ role and can niulticast DJ's voice and MP3 music to multiple clients. The IMS client site plays the audience role and can receive audio and MP3 music from the IMS server: Additionallj\ IMS provides two features using the real time multimedia interaction technique. The first one is that IMS audience can transmit his voice to the IMS server with a call-in operation. The second one is that IMS offers the dual server mode to allow a secondaty DJ, who is geographically separated from the main DJ,to join the program. That is, two geographically separated DJs cooperatively control the program. Related technique issues and the corresponding system development of IMS are presented in detail in the paper: keywords: Internet, Interactive, Multicast, Music station. 279 0-7695-0951-7/01 $10.00 0 2001 IEEE