[icecast] strange way of forwarding to another stream.

[Geoff Shang]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Todd Poston wrote:

> Just a follow up to this, Geoff...
> True, that is how you'd do it when you know what *n* number of
> streams/files you wished to serve at the time the client d/l's the
> playlist.  There are cases when you may wish to dynamically change what
> the client hears (live radio for instance, or maintenance, etc.) without
> requiring the client to manually reconnect.  Redirects would/could be
> handy _IF_ clients supported them universally. Alas.

Well, you could dynamically produce the playlist with some scripting
language like ASP or PHP.  Would achieve the same thing.

Geoff.

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