[icecast] Oddcast suggestion

[Ross Levis]

Hi oddsock

What would be really useful is if your winamp plugin could monitor the
number of listeners on the IceCast2 server and only send the audio when
listeners > 0.  Perhaps the metadata could continue to be sent.  This would
reduce bandwidth requirements substantially when there are several hundred,
perhaps thousands of streams as planned by http://www.rville.com.

It would also be very useful to me as I have a 5gig limit per month on my
DSL which only allows me to broadcast for 14 days continuously at 32kb/s.  I
could extend this considerably.

What do you think?  Any possibility for the future?

Regards,
Ross Levis.
http://xstream1.com:8616/soulfm.ogg

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