[Icecast] moving listens from ogg to mp3

[Karl Heyes]

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 19:28, Warren J. Beckett wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> With icecast2 is it possible at all to move clients from a ogg mount to
> a mp3 mount and vise versa?
>
> Looking at the error log after I use the admin interface to do this I
> get an error stating that the are different encoding types, and as such
> will not do the move.
>
> I am not concerned about client issues at this point as I think I can
> solve them my self.


It's not impossible from an icecast point of view but some per-client
info would need resetting, however certain things may be an issue like
the mp3 metadata and of course detecting a change in the stream format
at the client end.

karl.