[Icecast] ices 2.0.1 release

[Zenon Panoussis]

Michael Smith wrote:

> We won't add mp3 capabilities to ices2 as it is intended as part of
> Xiph.Org's strategy to get users using freely available and freely
> implementable codecs (such as vorbis, theora, etc.). 

Hmm. In some cases, the lack of mp3 support has the exact opposite
effect. To wit: I have a huge collection of mp3s which I would like
to broadcast as .ogg, but I don't want to recode them permanently.
If ices2 could read mp3 and recode it to ogg on the fly, I'd be doing
just that. Because it can't, I end up using ices 0.4 and broadcasting
mp3 against my wish to support ogg.

The ability for ices2 to read mp3 seems to be a much-wanted feature,
so I'd like to suggest that you consider (yet again) one-way mp3
compatibility. Just look at Microsoft. One-way compatibility was the
key to the success of their .doc format: Word could convert mostly
everything to .doc while it could not convert .doc to anything at
all. Why not do something equally nasty to .mp3 if you can?

Z


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