<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 31, 2005, at 4:19 PM, Michael Smith wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Our primary aim is to have excellent support for free formats</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(primarily, this means the xiph codecs - we'd be happy to help out</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">with any other freely usable formats, though). As a concession to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">existing icecast users, we have basic mp3 support (basically we just</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">pass it through untouched), and this mechanism works for some other</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">codecs as well. However, we will not add explicit support for any</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">other formats, nor will we support usage of icecast with other formats</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(i.e. if it breaks, you're entirely on your own). I don't know if WMA9</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">requires explicit support or not.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Mike</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Frankly, the only reason that I'm even considering relaying WMA9 is because a large number of listeners to the streams may not be all that technically savvy and WMP comes with XP - I'd like to prevent having to ask the users to download another player if preferable. I don't have very much experience with WMP 9 or WMP 10 etc. Forgive me if this is a silly question, but can they stream from mp3 audio streams? If so then I wouldn't have to worry about steaming WMA format at all.<BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Michael Hale<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN><<A href="mailto:smiley@gift-culture.org">smiley@gift-culture.org</A>></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">gift culture:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.gift-culture.org">http://www.gift-culture.org</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">initstring:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.initstring.org">http://www.initstring.org</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">artificial music machine:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.artificialmusicmachine.com">http://www.artificialmusicmachine.com</A></FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>