MetaFilter posts tagged with streaming

I'm addicted to intravenous injections of corned beef. Ponkapoag, Massachusetts, hello!

Horace Rumpole — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:24:08 -0800

A chance meeting between Kevin Pollak and Jason Calacanis at a poker game gave birth to Kevin Pollak's Chat Show, a weekly, web-based interview program. Episode 29, with guest Weird Al Yankovic, will be streaming live at 8PM ET/5PM PT. While you're waiting, check out previous episodes with guests like Eddie Izzard, Hank Azaria, and John Hamm. Or try your hand at the Larry King Game.

Listen to baseball again

acro — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:37:02 -0800

FreeBaseballRadio.com is a site that was created to help find internet broadcasts of live baseball games. Specifically those that are available for free.

Jazz hands

klangklangston — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:48:08 -0800

Audio archive from Small's Jazz Club, searchable by instrument, then performer, then date, starting with September 27, 2007. Hours and hours and hours and hours of the some of the best jazz from New York's downtown scene. Stream and snap your fingers, man.

Art house films for £3 a pop

muggsy1079 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:41:54 -0800

Art house films for £3 a pop. Stream them from here

Wilco (the stream)

TheDonF — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:31:25 -0800

Wilco has just started streaming their new album, Wilco (The Album) The band has done this since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and is asking those who download the entire thing to donate some cash to The Inspiration Corporation charity in Chicago.

Happening Right Now

netbros — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:44:37 -0800

LiveNewsCameras.com ― international live streaming television news aggregator.

Yes, this is something you would need a TV to understand

bibliowench — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:24:27 -0800

Boxee is a free media-center program (currently only for Mac and Linux), that, in addition to playing most multimedia formats, provides a portal for many popular internet streaming channels. Its interface enabled folks who used Apple Tv, or who had connected their computer to their television, to browse and watch this content much like they would a regular television broadcast. But yesterday, NBC's popular (in the US) Hulu announced that it would be pulling its programs from Boxee at the request of its content providers. While the move puzzled and angered many Boxee users, who pointed out that they still saw the same advertisements that they would see on Hulu's site, some speculate that the large media companies saw Boxee as a threat to the cable delivery system. In other words, Hulu is for laptops, not for televisions, an auxiliary instead of an alternative to traditional tv.

Great white shark dissection

nthdegx — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:44:09 -0800

Scientists at the Auckland Museum will be performing a necropsy of a great white Shark between 11am and 1pm New Zealand time on Thursday. Though they will be examining the contents of its gut, they will also, among other things, look at its sex organs (female) and jaw. The necropsy will be viewable on the web from 2pm NZ time (when's that?). Selected trivia from Wikipedia, and elsewhere:

The only difference between a necropsy and an autopsy is that the word necropsy is more usually applied to animals.
Though reminiscent of the scene from Jaws, Dreyfuss's character was supposed to be examining a tiger shark.
Yes those tedious shark shockumentaries weren't lying. Great white sharks can detect traces of blood from 5km away. Apparently they can also detect a half-billionth of a volt in electric fields generated by moving creatures.
The shark was killed by accident when it became tangled in a gill net. It's against the law in New Zealand to kill a Great White shark deliberately.
At 3m and 300kg, this shark is nearly as big as some great whites.
The great white shark is an endothermic poikilotherm.
Great whites know how to evade dolphin echo location and have varying hunting techniques for a variety of species.
Most attacks on humans from great whites are thought to be "test bites" as they attempt to establish what we are. Humans' unique knack of getting out of the water explains why many attacks are non-fatal. Some have hypothesised that great whites don't like the taste of humans.

Like Twitter, but with more music, less minutiae

bibliowench — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:09:00 -0800

Blip.fm has been described as a Twitter for Music. The site allows users to create streaming playlists by searching for music hosted elsewhere online. You can make a playlist for your own listening pleasure, immediately find and hear a song that's been running through your brain, follow the blips of users (or "djs" in their parlance), and give and receive affirmations of musical taste ("props"). If you want more of the world to know exactly what you've listened to at any particular moment, you can integrate your account with last.fm, friendfeed, twitter, and the like. Unlike the late, lamented Muxtape, there are no copyright-violating uploads (that blip.fm hosts, at any rate). Surely the RIAA will have no problem with this site. Right?

What's up, doc?

cthuljew — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:13:28 -0800

S o m e f o r t y-t h r e e c l a s s i c W a r n e r B r o t h e r s c a r t o o n s. (Sorry, no index page.)

Sweden - a safe haven for... innovation?

mnsc — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:47:59 -0800

Talking about Sweden and music has up until now either dealt with The Swedish Music Export Phenomenon or how Sweden is a safe haven for pirates. That might change now. Today Spotify launched (that is, for people in Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Finland or Norway). A streaming music application that provides full on demand playing. Available in ad-supported (30s twice per hour) free mode or premium mode (~$15 per month). And it wouldn't be a proper startup if you didn't get the mandatory "this is going to change the world" video. The Local has the details. But of course, this and any future discussion regarding any aspect of Sweden or Swedish people will forever be overshadowed by that heretic Engdahl.

A damn fine cup of free entertainment.

PM — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:42:59 -0800

CBS has made full episodes of Twin Peaks available online. Their "Classics" page has other gems. [previously]

WFMU's Free Music Archive

cog_nate — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:56:37 -0800

WFMU's Free Music Archive, "an online digital library of music that will allow music fans, webcasters and podcasters to listen, download, and stream for free, with no restrictions, registration or fees. And it will all be legal." Still pre-launch, but there's already quite a bit of music available on the site, including a sampler CD.

The good kind of Noise. And the non-racist kind of White.

wendell — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:16:17 -0800

Simply Noise. Streaming white noise for your auditory zen needs. That is all. That is enough.

Storm Chasing LIVE

spock — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:03:35 -0800

Storm chase from your desk. This link will not be interesting after a bit, but the technology is impressive. Storm chasers can now stream video of their chases, LIVE. This could be a good show between now and sundown. There is basically one big supercell near Wichita Falls, TX and it has the environment to itself. You can also follow chasers on the Spotter Network (google maps). Just click the National Activity link and zoom in on the Wichita Falls, TX area (OK border).

There's nothing on TV? Try channel 2 in Nicaragua.

desjardins — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:54:09 -0800

Watch TV from around the world. Anything from Albania to Pakistan to Vietnam.

Stage 6 to Shut Down Today

Avenger50 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:44:28 -0800

Stage 6, recently linked in a popular FPP, has announced it will shut down today. Rumors about why include their battle against UMG to a "ridiculous battle of egos."

Yes, you probably would need a TV to know what we are talking about

bove — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:03:45 -0800

Fancast is a new site currently in beta, that tries to combine TV listings, IMDB type information, and aggregate full length episodes of TV shows from places like CBS and Hulu. It is also designed to allow you to connect you with shows and movies from iTunes, Netflix, and more. It is owned by Comcast but anyone can use it. via

1,780 Cult-Movies Online

Dave Faris — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:51:12 -0800

1,780 Cult Movies Online ~ A huge repository of online movies described as cult classics.

Songerize

nitsuj — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:28:40 -0800

Songerize [via]

last.fm gets major upgrade

cowbellemoo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:51:06 -0800

last.fm has gotten a major upgrade. Full tracks stream on-demand without login. Easily get a peek into genre favorites. Artist coverage is hit or miss, but I was still impressed enough to want to share. Give it a try! Note: Each track may be played thrice. Tracking method likely by IP.

Live Japan Rail Cam

brownpau — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:28:17 -0800

Railway TV. Live video from the front of a train in Japan. More info (translated).

Now, Listen! Ninjatune podcasts...

nthdegx — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:13:27 -0800

Ninjatune podcasts including Coldcut and Big Dada podcasts, a Ninjacast which delves into the record crates of various ninja artists, and of course a Solid Steel podcast with 60-odd mixes available.

Stickam is for Porn!

brownpau — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:18:35 -0800

onoes! teenz on teh pr0n webs! It's been a year since I posted about Stickam, and in that time, one would be naïve to think that a community of unmoderated videos broadcast live from the private and semi-anonymous bedrooms of the world would not result in epic lulz (nsfw). To no one's surprise, disgruntled Stickam ex-VP Alex Becker says Stickam shares office space, staff, and equipment with live pornographic video providers -- this via NYT tech writer Brad Stone. Cue the "think of the CHILDRUNZ!" moral panic. But popular websites being related to or backed up by prurient interest are nothing new: Wikipeda predecessor Bomis was once accused of having "softore porn" in its "Babes" section, and of course everyone knows porn drives technology. What do you think the internet is for? But if you use Stickam and this bothers you, the burgeoning field of live embeddable Flash-based webcam video streaming is rife with alternatives: uStream.tv, Justin.tv, BlogTV, Mogulus, and Operator11, just to name some -- but there'll be naked girls on those too. I guarantee it.

What are YOU listening to?

2or3whiskeysodas — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:32:27 -0800

Simplify Media has made my Sunday morning, and if you have pals with good taste in music it will probably make your day, too. It's a small download (4 MB) that allows you to stream the iTunes libraries of up to 30 friends as long as they're online.