[icecast] Newbie Icecast question

Fri Jan 30 14:40:03 UTC 2004

<body>
At 09:43 PM 1/27/2004, you wrote:
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I've installed Icecast2 on RedHat 9
and am able to use WinAmp and Oddcast on a Win2000 PC to source audio to
the Icecast2 server. This has helped me understand how to stream a live
feed to Icecast2, which is incredibly easy and useful.
My question is regarding pre-recorded audio files. If I have a series of
archived live performances (let's say they were archived to MP3 files),
how do I allow listeners to start these recordings on the fly, say from a
web page? I'm getting the impression that IceS may be able to do this for
me if the files are on my RedHat server, but do I have to launch a new
IceS source for each request? 
</blockquote>
icecast streams static content the same way apache does, just dump your
mp3 files into the icecast webroot directory and create playlists
pointing to them...<br>
for instance, if your webroot was /home/me/icecast/webroot, and you
placed a file "track.mp3" in that directory, then you simply
need to create a file called track.m3u and place
"http://server:port/track.mp3"
in it, and then to stream that file, just access
http://server:port/track.m3u
from any supported listening client.<br>
oddsock<br>
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