On 1999 September 26 a musical performance, taking place at McGill University, was transmitted to an audience at New York University over the Internet. While Internet streaming audio techologies have been in use for several years, what made this event unique was the audience's experience of uninterrupted, intermediate-quality multichannel audio (AC-3). In order to achieve this result, a custom system was developed employing both TCP and UDP protocols, and providing its own buffering and retransmission algorithms. The motivation for this approach is explored, and experiments justifying the decisions made are explained.

Authors: Xu, Aoxiang; Woszczyk, Wieslaw; Settel, Zack; Pennycook, Bruce; Rowe, Robert; Galanter, Philip; Bary, Jeffreyn
Affiliations: Centre for Intelligent Machines and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada ; Music, Media and Technology Group, Faculty of Music, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada ; Music Technology Program, Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, New York University, New York, NY ; Arts Technology Group, New York University, New York, NY (See document for exact affiliation information.)
JAES Volume 48 Issue 7/8 pp. 627-641; July 2000
Publication Date: July 1, 2000

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