[icecast] icecast2, ogg, mp3, etc

[Bryan Koschmann - GKT]

Has this changed within the past few months? I swear awhile back icecast2
had no mp3 support, but then again I could be suffering from caffiene
withdrawal or something :)

Thanks for the information, it was all very helpful indeed!

        Bryan

<p>On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, oddsock wrote:

> icecast2 is a broadcast server and will broadcast both ogg vorbis and mp3
> streams.  This assumes that you have a source client which can produce an
> ogg vorbis and mp3 stream and send it TO an icecast2 server.  With mp3
> streams, shoutcast mp3 metadata is supported, however you cannot use the
> shoutcast DSP as a source stream to an icecast2 server.
>
> Current clients that we know about that can communicate with icecast2 :
>
> Unix Source clients :
> ices0.x (supports mp3 streams)
> ices2.x (supports ogg vorbis streams)
> darkice (supports mp3 + ogg vorbis)
> oddcast xmms plugin (supports mp3 + ogg vorbis)
> streamTranscoder (supports mp3 + ogg vorbis)
>
> Win32 Source Clients :
> oddcast winamp/foobar/tcmp plugin (supports mp3 + ogg vorbis)
> streamTranscoder (supports mp3 + ogg vorbis)
>
> If there are more, then please add to the list...
>
> oddsock
>
> At 11:34 AM 6/3/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Just wanted to clarify, can icecast2 not read OR broadcast any mp3, or
> >can it just not broadcast mp3 (but still play from a playlist)? I know the
> >quality would be dropped if it had to reencode them though.
> >
> >And what's up with that POS Winamp3, it doesn't even play gg streams?!?
> >I use xmms, but we have winamp3 on a demo computer, it just sits and keeps
> >prebuffering. I need something else for windows I think.
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >         Bryan
> >
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