Silicon Valley Musings

I stumbled across the following hardware and software announcements. Looks like it would be very easy for anyone to set up a local and/or Internet-based radio station.

From http://www.worldvibrations.com/:

The WorldVibrations Radio Station (WVRS) is a professional quality “radio station in a box” for on-the-air, Internet, ? broadcasting. It performs most of the functions of a radio station with the exception of transmitter, offering fully automated ?on-air? studio, production studio and streaming media encoding in a studio-quiet, low-power consumption package ? Feed two or more streams of Windows Media, Ogg Vorbis, Real Media or MP3 to media servers over a DSL connection. Connect to a PA system, satellite uplink or, with a license, a transmitter.

From http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/:

Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality audio and music?

From http://www.icecast.org/:

Icecast is an audio broadcasting system that streams music in the Ogg Vorbis format, and is available under the terms of the GNU GPL.