Show HN: I built a virtual concert venue for artists

Hi! I like what you're doing here. I'm the author of a tool that utilises an opus encoder and decoder in the browser to emulate something like modern live streaming. I followed similar ideas to yours but ultimately found that the icecast route was a little bit limited. If you're interested, the code is here: https://github.com/gaxge and is in the process of being refactored/ updated. You can play around with the original prototype here: https://low.show/noisecrypt/app. I use the streaming tools mainly for doing stuff with jamming in combination with randomness but they can be repurposed for normal linear real-time streaming.

I'm also based in Germany, and you're welcome to reach out if you want to talk about this kind of stuff further.

Damn it, now you guys are all on my website and the ogg-vorbis encoding (a requirement for the stream working in Chrome) crashed and I'm not at home!

Edit: I finally got home and restarted the ogg stream. Will have to find a solution for it to remain up...

Yes they are. Technically though it's not mixed. All arriving audio data is dumped into a single buffer. Mixing would now be a great way to get rid of the stream's choppyness.

now that so many users are playing simultaneously, I'm a bit annoyed that some leave the website open and stream silence.

Wondering how I could get a user a fair slot to perform now...

Anyways, the stream has become a great source of entropy now :D