Apple's Music Event Webcast [Archive]

MacRumors

Apr 28, 2003, 06:52 PM

In the days before the event, there were small hints that Apple workers were busy behind the curtain -- updating Apple's Streaming site so the mac faithful could view the announcements in real time.

In the hours before the event, a small slip (presumably) accidently revealed the Webcast url, and allowed it to be posted on this site... sadly, the site may not have been able to handle the resources required or it was deactived. It's still unclear who (if anyone) the live stream was for.

After the event, a visit back to the same site (http://stream.apple.akadns.net/), now brings us a link to Apple's Music Event speech:

Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs present announcements from the Moscone Center in San Francisco that will be music to your ears. See the MPEG-4 webcast presentation right here exclusively in QuickTime . It's an event you don't want to miss.

The link provides a good quality stream and is currently playing in a loop.

GeneR

Apr 28, 2003, 06:58 PM

Always interesting to hear what happened! :D

Freg3000

Apr 28, 2003, 06:58 PM

I found the link at MacNN when I first came home @ 3:00 PM EST. I've been watching the presentation for the last 5 hours. In a loop....over and over again. :)

http://macnn.com/news/19275

zigi

Apr 28, 2003, 06:59 PM

Nice to see it at last. The service rules!! Apple == Innovation

Jaykay

Apr 28, 2003, 07:03 PM

Originally posted by zigi
Nice to see it at last. The service rules!! Apple == Innovation

Its funny then that apple had no live feeds - audio or video. I watched it live from MSNBC (at least thats what i think it was)

MrMacMan

Apr 28, 2003, 07:23 PM

Go looping clips baby!
:D

myrdred23

Apr 28, 2003, 07:48 PM

Hmm anyone have a problem w/ live feeds in quicktime, where quicktime shows it for 2 seconds or so, then just freezes, its really annoying. Anyone have any idea how to fix this? btw im using latest version of quicktime and latest version of jaguar

t^3

Apr 28, 2003, 08:11 PM

The "looping" has now stopped.

bignumbers

Apr 28, 2003, 08:12 PM

How depressing I had to watch this in Media Player. I'd never downloaded it before today. Sad sad sad. No idea why Apple didn't webcast it for the masses.

Certainly looked like a keynote though. Who was in the audience? I thought it was a press-only event...

MacFan25

Apr 28, 2003, 08:19 PM

Originally posted by t^3
The "looping" has now stopped.
yeah, i just got to see the end. i wish that it would come back on. :D

szark

Apr 28, 2003, 08:27 PM

Well, hopefully they'll post another version later.

I didn't get a chance to see any of it. :(

alia

Apr 28, 2003, 08:47 PM

Wow, this stinks! I was hoping all day that I could catch it when I got home from school, but it's stopped looping. :(

Maybe they'll post another broadcast later. *sniff*

Alia

avus

Apr 28, 2003, 08:53 PM

Originally posted by bignumbers
How depressing I had to watch this in Media Player. I'd never downloaded it before today. Sad sad sad.

No kidding. I was also amused by the MSNBC's description of the webcast - I didn't write it down, but something like "Apple's attempt to fight on-line priracy" blah blah blah. When did MS become the protector of original ideas? :rolleyes:

joed

Apr 28, 2003, 08:57 PM

I also watched the MSNBC stream of it - very crappy stream!

And had to use IE - lucky I had alread downloaded Windows Media Player - knew it would come in handy one day :)

I was getting sick of jobs continually demoing the music server. Yeah, we got the idea :p

Also, thanks must go out to arn for the continuous report! Good job.

James.

Pismo

Apr 28, 2003, 09:06 PM

I watched the stream provided by MSNBC (crappy Windows Media Player). I was only able to watch 15 minutes or so before I had to go to class. I watched it in it's entirety from Apple's website when I got back. I was impressed:D

mac15

Apr 28, 2003, 09:14 PM

I didn't see it :( I'm dieing too. Damn Apple put it back up

rockman2023

Apr 28, 2003, 09:21 PM

When i clicked the link at Apple's stream page at about 6pm EST, i caught the last 5 minutes of it? weird...

i'll be sure to check it out again

j33pd0g

Apr 28, 2003, 09:23 PM

Originally posted by myrdred23
Hmm anyone have a problem w/ live feeds in quicktime, where quicktime shows it for 2 seconds or so, then just freezes, its really annoying. Anyone have any idea how to fix this? btw im using latest version of quicktime and latest version of jaguar

I havn't been able to stream any (apple) events in my QT since QT 6 came out... I have streamed some other stuff... just not from the apple website.

LimeiBook86

Apr 28, 2003, 09:33 PM

I wasn't able to catch the webcast but I saw something on CNBC with Steve Jobs, he was talking about the Music Service and the iPod and how Apple was first in Video editing and DVD burning. The lady acted like she was rushing him. The lady asked Jobs a question about SARS, and Jobs said something and it got boring then it was over. I taped the last 5 seconds of it on video tape. I wrote a summary of it on my webpage with a picture that I took form my TV. I hope you enjoy. Go take a look: http://homepage.mac.com/ibook238/applenews.html Enjoy! :rolleyes: :D

marco114

Apr 28, 2003, 09:34 PM

anyone got a link for the stream that works or the MSNBC stream? I'd really like to watch it.

-marc

Agasthya

Apr 28, 2003, 09:38 PM

For everyone having the problem with QuickTime freezing after a few seconds of the stream:

Trash the 3ivx component. It has a known conflict with MPEG4 streams.

Good luck.

bones

Apr 28, 2003, 09:59 PM

Originally posted by Agasthya
For everyone having the problem with QuickTime freezing after a few seconds of the stream:

Trash the 3ivx component. It has a known conflict with MPEG4 streams.

Good luck.

Um, what stream? Its been down for hours.

Agasthya

Apr 28, 2003, 10:02 PM

Originally posted by bones
Um, what stream? Its been down for hours.

Any MPEG4 stream on Apples site.

And it has been down for maybe 2 hrs (albeit that is hours, but not as long as you're making it sound).

nighttraitor

Apr 28, 2003, 10:06 PM

nighttraitor

Apr 28, 2003, 10:16 PM

Ok I'm just stupid. It takes a while for the movie to load. Especially if you have instant-on set to immediate.

Cheers

Agasthya

Apr 28, 2003, 10:35 PM

Originally posted by nighttraitor
Ok I'm just stupid. It takes a while for the movie to load. Especially if you have instant-on set to immediate.

Cheers

the stream works for you? It gives me a page not found error when I try the direct link to the stream.

nighttraitor

Apr 29, 2003, 12:18 AM

Originally posted by Agasthya
the stream works for you? It gives me a page not found error when I try the direct link to the stream.

Ok I'm not doing too well tonight. for some reason i thought we were talking about a different stream that is on the AppleMusic website. I too have not been able to view the webcast. Sorry for my stupidity.

sparks9

Apr 29, 2003, 01:12 AM

New stream link found: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/specialmusicevent/

It's on the quicktime page at apple.com.

sparks9

Apr 29, 2003, 01:23 AM

It works, I'm watching right now.

stuartmingay

Apr 29, 2003, 02:33 AM

... that the only place I was able to watch the live stream was on MSNBC.

Oh, and great news for Europe with this music service ... oh, wait a minute. Bloody hell. Apple have 3% market share, and only plan to make this service available to a percentage of that!

Disappointment.

Stu

szark

Apr 29, 2003, 03:20 AM

Thanks for the link, sparks9!

Now that I've seen the webcast, I can sleep soundly, knowing my day is complete. :D

dstorey

Apr 29, 2003, 04:35 AM

Originally posted by j33pd0g
I havn't been able to stream any (apple) events in my QT since QT 6 came out... I have streamed some other stuff... just not from the apple website.

I had the same problem but just sorted it out

go to quicktime preferences / Streaming Transport, and change to use HTTP port 80.

go to / Streaming Proxies und make sure it says use system settings....I had it on use HTTP Proxy Servers and it never worked.

The streaming transport needs to be on HTTP cause it sounds like your firewall is stopping UDP, RTSP. Well thats what it was for me....hope it works for you too.

Dr. Distortion

Apr 29, 2003, 06:23 AM

Agasthya, is that you? THE Agasthya from KDX? :)

-Dr. D.

mrdrumbum

Apr 29, 2003, 08:06 AM

every time i try to watch an apple event from apple's website my quicktime always says "timed out" or "unsupported media". what's wrong?

j33pd0g

Apr 29, 2003, 10:13 AM

Originally posted by dstorey
I had the same problem but just sorted it out

go to quicktime preferences / Streaming Transport, and change to use HTTP port 80.

go to / Streaming Proxies und make sure it says use system settings....I had it on use HTTP Proxy Servers and it never worked.

The streaming transport needs to be on HTTP cause it sounds like your firewall is stopping UDP, RTSP. Well thats what it was for me....hope it works for you too.

Cool. I can't wait to get home and see if your sugestion will sort out my problem too.

BTW I ended up watching the webcast on msnbc with the windows media player... how ironic... I also was mad at myself because I thought I had trashed that app months ago.

Mikler

Apr 29, 2003, 01:27 PM

Does anybody know, if it is possible to download the keynote somewhere?

Or how to capture the thing, if no-one has supplied a download-adress.

/M.

Waluigi

Apr 29, 2003, 09:59 PM

I had trouble using quicktime too, but I found that zdnet.com had a stream that worked just fine. Go to zdnet.com, click on the 'News' Tab, you'll find an article about Apple's announcements at the bottom, and a link to the video. Good luck.

--Waluigi

Wkaemena

Apr 29, 2003, 10:58 PM

On trying to see the webcast on Quicktime I come to a hold after 2 sec. with Steve standing on the stage and the "beachball" spinning and processor load at 90%. What is going on ?? was not able to see the event on QT so far!! on Media Player it was an unusable joke...

Any Ideas ??

JGowan

Apr 30, 2003, 12:30 AM

I have yet to be able to connect.

I have the lastet OS, the latest QT 6.2, ... what am I missing? I have tried to configure my system preferences correctly according to some notes here.

Would someone PLEASE do step-by-step on how to set this up so I can watch this thing?

Please!