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DIY Internet radio station

Posted by Steve Hull on Tuesday 25 August 2009 at 11:37am
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S3FM is a simple facility that lets anyone create their own Web-based radio station.

All you have to do is sign up to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3), an Internet data storage service similar to Dropbox (except the first gigabyte isn't free) and fill your bucket with mp3s.  Anyone who then goes to the S3FM website and enters the name of your bucket has the bucket's contents streamed to them in a random order.  It couldn't be simpler.  And the creative possibilities of randomly-streamed audio are fascinating...

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