Hi Stefan. I read through your entire thread and watched your videos. All my questions relate to Radio Pro.



FYI - I was glad to see you promoting Soma. They provide the best selection and quality of music services I have found.



We are building a virtual world, so our needs are different than someone adding radio to "a level." Please keep this in mind.



I discussed adding radio with my technical staff yesterday. I learned we can have very concise distance control of balanced radio sound if we use 2D sound [which does not fade with distance], which is fine for music. This is important, because clubs and homes are often in pretty close proximity... both horizontally and vertically.



1. My biggest concern is being able to play multiple different stations at that same time - in different areas, of course. We currently have at least 15 themed clubs and areas, from Tiki Exotica to folk, country, industrial, and more. Does Radio Pro support this?



2. Can we set distances at each club (horizintally and vertically) that sound will be heard heard using Radio Pro?



3. You mentioned development of a product for in-world broadcasting of our own stations. We have hired a radio disk jockey to put together our stations, and [regarding earlier posters' concerns about licensing] since we are limiting "provision of music" to within our world, we come under a category of "playing music in our business," NOT BROADCASTING, so the costs are minimal. But even this applies only to the music we provide, NOT the Shoutcast stations, which already pay royalties.



4. In Phase One we are NOT providing member owned or controlled virtual properties. But this obviously is a significant focus of future development under Phase Two. Then we want to sell "radios," jukeboxes, etc. that members can place on their property and tune to the station of their choice. However, we want to CONTROL access to stations. [There are some weird Shoutcast stations, usually masquerading as religious while actually promoting racism, bigotry and hatred. We want to keep these out of our world.]



Will Radio Plus support member controlled radios, at parameters we set?



Thank you, Stefan.

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