[Vorbis] icecast

[Steve]

Thank you, gentlemen, very much!  Now I will have to look into how to generate such a playlist, a subject I'm not overly familiar with.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Oscar Sundbom 
  To: Steve 
  Cc: Vorbis at xiph.org 
  Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 12:57 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vorbis] icecast


  Steve skrev:
  > (Yes, I can reduce my font size.) Thanks for the great reply. I could 
  > use just a little further clarification, please.  I program with 
  > various softwares, so I'm not inexperienced. I do not prefer to 
  > require my site visitors to open/save files.  I would prefer to stream 
  > transparently for those who have an appropriate player.  These 
  > clips range from 2 to 7 megs.  So trying to put together what you and 
  > I have written, would you perhaps say that Icecast would be desirable 
  > for my purposes and would probably be fairly easy for me to set up, 
  > and that it would not require anything but a compatible player for my 
  > visitors?

  If you want to stream individual clips, Icecast is not for you. Your web 
  server will do. The most usual way of getting an external player to play 
  the clip streaming, instead of downloading it first, is to create a 
  playlist file (possibly generated on the fly) for each clip. This would 
  then be downloaded, opened by the external player, which then streams 
  the clip from your
  web server.

  Icecast is for live streaming of audio and would not improve your 
  situation of your delivering on-demand clips. For streaming
  with an external player, it uses the same method as I outlined above and 
  acts as a web server that only transfers the audio
  at the same rate it is created by the live feed.

  Regards,
  Oscar

  >     ----- Original Message -----
  >     *From:* Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <mailto:justivo at gmail.com>
  >     *To:* Vorbis at xiph.org <mailto:Vorbis at xiph.org>
  >     *Sent:* Sunday, April 29, 2007 12:22 PM
  >     *Subject:* Re: [Vorbis] icecast
  >
  >     Hello Steve,
  >
  >     If all you need is your users to download files to play them locally,
  >     then Icecast is not something you need.  Icecast is for streaming.  If
  >     you had an online radio it would be very useful to you, though.
  >
  >     Furthermore, Icecast is not easy to setup for the inexperienced
  >     computer-user, albeit after setting up correctly, you probably
  >     wouldn't have a need to touch it again ever.  The process is
  >     transparent for the users, though.  They only need to open the
  >     streaming file on winamp or any other audio player with stream support
  >     and that's it.
  >
  >     Can I ask you a favor?  Would you reduce the font size on your future
  >     messages?  Or disable HTML e-mail completely if that works out better
  >     for you.  It's somewhat annoying.
  >
  >     -Ivo
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