[icecast] Client Woes

[Todd Merriman]

>Todd Merriman wrote:
>> The URL looks like this:  http://www.RainbowRadio.com:8000/club.mp3
>> 
>> My goal is to instruct users as how Winamp may be brought up to play
>> the stream automatically.  I am migrating from Real Audio to
>> Icecast, but I cannot complete the migration with users having so much
>> trouble with the streams.
>
>Create a .m3u file, a simple text file, containing the above MP3 URL 
>(m3u stand for Mp3 Url). Link this .m3u file from the file. The clients 
>will download the .m3u file, look into it, and see the Mp3 source URL, 
>and play that.

Amazing....it works!

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Todd Merriman - Rainbow Radio Sound & Light
+1 770 889 5897
8030 Pooles Mill Dr., Ball Ground, GA 30107
dj at RainbowRadio.com
http://www.RainbowRadio.com
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