http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcHost
Looks like the "killer web app" has already been written, and it is GPL, and
someone just needs to install it and then let's start jamming!
that "someone" might well be me -- just reviewed my server bandwidth/storage
limits, and i *think* it should be fine. anyone care to throw out a quick estimate of what
the server loads might look like? i'd prefer to stay away from lossy formats.
Awesome!
Well it looks like there might be a convergence upon FLAC/44.1k/16bit for
tracks/loops/samples. You could always limit it to ogg instead of FLAC if you get too
close to your limits, or find someone else to take over hosting it if it gets to be an
expense.
I haven't been counting, but I'd guess that about a dozen people have expressed
interest. I don't know to estimate how much material everyone would upload and how
soon. I have a whole hard disk full of unfinished loops, riffs, beats, and samples, which
I'm ready to start contributing as soon as the system is alive.
I'm not sure how to estimate how much use a Linux-only, BY-SA cchost music
collaboration site would get, but I reckon that only accurate way to find out is to push
the thing live and see what happens.
i did some quick "back-of-an-envelope" figuring while riding around on the bus
today, and came up with this worst-case scenario (well... BEST-case, really.... he-he..):
assume 44.1kHz/32-bit - that's around 11MB/track/min
assume we want to produce a complete record (~60min) - that's about 2/3 GB per track
assume we're going 24 tracks deep - that's about 16GB
assume we need some headroom (text files, presets, screenshots, whatever) - call it 20GB
instead
assume we have 20 users, who ALL upload AND download EVERYTHING twice every week -
that's somewhat less than 4TB/mo
SO........
20GB storage
4TB/mo. bandwidth
and it'll almost certainly end up being a LOT less than that.
works for me.
i can probably set this up within a week or two.
i would host it at
whatever-name-we-choose.peterlutek.com
for "whatever-name-we-choose", i was thinking of "laum" (LAU-Music),
until i ran into
www.inside.net/plugin/laum.htm and laum.univ-lemans.fr
anyone else have any bright ideas for the name?
also, do we in fact have concensus around the idea of using CcHost?
--
.pltk.
