[icecast] Client Woes

[harvey smith]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Jack Moffitt wrote:

> The way to prevetn this download, or rather to work around it, is to use
> a small intermediate playlist file.  In order to get maximum client
> support, m3u files are best.  Just make an m3u file called  stream.m3u
> and in it put:
>
> http://www.RainbowRadio.com:8000/club.mp3
>
> Then point your users to that file.  Which will quickly download, get
> sent to the player registered for M3u's, and then the player will
> connect and start to stream that file.

It also help's alot to associate the m3u to the correct mime type on
the server side. In Apache would you place:

   AddType audio/x-mpegurl .m3u

In your httpd.conf file. This will make it work even in RealPlayer
(ie, I never had to use .ram files for mp3s)

harvey

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