Hi Zappa Fan.

Want to listen to Zappa 24/7? Just tune in! The stream's up all day, repeating past shows.

Every Sunday 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC or 18:00 UTC during "daylight saving time" in Europe, see Wikipedia for details) there will be a Zappa Listening Session here. Listen to your favourite music together with others around the globe. There are Zappamaniacs all over the world. This is something like meeting to listen to a radio show in the fifties. For detailed info, check this cool site out!

Zappateers Listening Sessions

Maybe you can find a BitTorrent client for your system and download the master files from the tracker to listen to them offline. There is a count-down at the chat so you can start your local session together with us. Of course, FLAC is lossless, as compared to a 256K AAC stream, the quality is better (but please keep in mind, these are bootlegs. The sound quality may be bad anyway).

Start stream at 256 KBit/44.1KHz Stereo AAC+ (best quality)
Start stream at 128 KBit/44.1KHz Stereo MP3 (lower bitrate for mobile devices etc.)

Please direct comments or complaints to me.

Info 18.07.2011:

I was informed that some people could not listen to the new AAC stream, especially using mobile devices. So now I have set up a second stream at 128 KBit, using MP3 compression.

Info 06.07.2011:

It seems that some people have an inapprehensible aversion to Zappa, or a profound aversion to me. Anyway, someone kept attacking the stream resulting in regular drops of the input stream, subsequently bringing down the whole stream.

So now I did what I already had in mind for quite a while: I upgraded the stream to AAC (using the newer Shoutcast 2.x server). This should give us two advantages:

  • No more source drops (hopefully...)
  • Better stream quality at the same bitrate (AAC has a far better sound quality as compared to MP3)

Normally all modern clients should be able to handle the AAC Format. I checked Winamp and VLC, both played the stream immediately.

Info 09.03.2010:
Due to bandwith shortage, the stream experienced problems during the last weeks of February 2010, if the number of listeners went above 60.
After a bandwidth upgrade, the stream is now back up at 320 KBit and supports up to 250 listeners.