We developed a very high
capacity music streaming service that allowed Amazon customers to
listen to music clips before purchasing
either full tracks for download or the physical CD.
The principal feature of this service was the array of servers
deployed to provide the capacity and
resilience demanded by Amazon. These were arranged
in three seperate co-locations with load balancing of the servers
within each co-location AND load balancing
between co-locations.
For an example of this service, visit
Amazon.Com, search in 'Popular Music'
for Diana Krall and select her "The Look of Love" album. Scroll down
the page to find the Liquid Audio links.
Update Liquid Audio no longer supply this service
to Amazon. The existing audio links table on the page above used to have
a column with the option to listen to a Liquid version of each track.
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