Please select an appropriate link for your player.

AAC+ offers best quality, MP3 is intended for slow connections, no AAC support or mobile devices. Just try which one fits most.

256 KBit/44.1KHz Stereo AAC+
128 KBit/44.1KHz Stereo MP3

For Windows Media Player:

256 KBit/44.1KHz Stereo AAC+
128 KBit/44.1KHz Stereo MP3

256 KBit/44.1KHz Stereo AAC+
128 KBit/44.1KHz Stereo MP3

For Windows Media Player:

256 KBit/44.1KHz Stereo AAC+
128 KBit/44.1KHz Stereo MP3

Please direct comments or complaints to me.

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

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!

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).

I have added a German translation of this page, and a check which language your browser requests. I hope the page comes up in the right language now - English by default or German on German systems.

It seems it was quite futile to click on the links with only Windows Media Player installed - it does not recognise listen.pls files. So I have now provided extra links for it, sending out ASX files it understands.

Just for testing and the fun of it, I have enabled the streams with IPv6. If you haven't got IPv6, of course, it won't work.

Please note that you can only get the IPv6 streams when you access the listen.pls files I supplied via the links. The ones sent by DNAS will simply point you back to the regular IPv4 address. DNAS is not IPv6 capable as of yet, I quite honestly mapped the stream from IPv4 to 6 using a "stone" instance. 

I tested the streams, VideoLAN and Windows Media Player work fine. WinAmp does not support IPv6. Under Linux, use VideoLAN or Amarok. Other players may work, but are untested.

After the update to SHOUTcast Server v2.0.0.29/posix(linux x64), it did no longer accept the new AAC source files I created since I added the AAC+ stream. I had to replace them with FLAC encoded files.

This was some extra work, but as this format is losless, the only degrade goes to the AAC or MP3 encoding for the stream. Therefore I hope this ensures the best possible quality. This is also only possible because the new server has more harddrive capacity than the old one.

The streams and the web pages have moved to a new machine. Also, the streaming server software has been updated. The old version tended to crash every now and then.

While I was at it, I also updated the landing page and added it to my CMS to have a more streamlined layout.

What's not changed: it's here for you to enjoy!

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.

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.

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.