[icecast] ogg and mp3

[Chris G Moguta]

For your "non-technical" listeners, both WinAmp 2 and 3 support OGG.  And it's 
free, as I'm sure you know.
Challenge them to listen to the difference too.  Once they hear how much 
better OGG sounds at the lower bitrates, I'm sure they won't mind switching 
over.

And you might as well try to force their hands away from Micro$oft's Windows 
Media Player, if that's what they're trying to use.  =p

Just my 0.02 dollars advice.

>===== Original Message From Adon Irani <adon at YorkU.CA> =====
> i'm running a community-radio/ new-media project out of Barrie,
>Ontario/Canada . http://theDV8network.com ; free radio and fertile
>resistances, fresh from the Canadian underground .
>
>our listeners are not necessarily very technical . . but i've read
>Cathedral and the Bazaar , and of course i want to support ogg ( as an
>alternative media ). but i don't want to force my listeners into
>'installing an ogg player' , i want to offer one mp3 stream for comforts
>sake .
>
>-//
>
>my question -- using icecast2/ices2 as the main server ,  what is the best
>way to offer an mp3 relay .
>
>ie. can i rename icecast2's 'icecast' to 'icecast2' , install
>icecast/liveice to run concurrently ..
>
>or , anyone have luck w/ streamTranscoder ?  looks promising , but it
>won't connect to the output stream's server correctly  .
>
>
>thanks ..
>
> a:/,
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