over the years theres been a million billion diferent tools around, such as automation ones, where if nobodys connected to the server to stream itl just play songs from its own playlist which means itl always be in play. that program i mentioned earlier, i found it again, its called SAM broadcaster....
well good old shoutcast uses very little bandwith for what you get it also needs very little computer power so someone with an old computer lieing around could host it at home i their willing to leave it running, ive played with it before and its nice and easy to setup. doing it that way could also ...
id hit it! id love to listen to everyones music :D theres a program around thatl play and stream the music; but also put together a page with a list of all your music on, upload it to any ftp you want so people can go onto teh web and request songs, the program will recognise and automaticaly put it...