[Vorbis] icecast

[Oscar Sundbom]

Steve skrev:
> In Notepad, I have created a file named "learning.m3u".
> I added this entry: "/learning.ogg".
> I uploaded to the same folder on my server where "learning.ogg" is.
> I changed the link on my web page to http://mydomain.com/learning.m3u.
> Clicking on the link opens Winamp with "LEARNING" as the title, but 
> nothing plays.
>  
> Any comments?

I guess you should have the entry as http://mydomain.com/learning.ogg 
<http://mydomain.com/learning.m3u>
Otherwise the application has no idea where to look. (Well, I guess it 
looks at the root of your drive)

Regards
Oscar

>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Steve <mailto:srussell at innernet.net>
>     *To:* Vorbis at xiph.org <mailto:Vorbis at xiph.org>
>     *Sent:* Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:20 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Vorbis] icecast
>
>     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 <mailto:oscar.sundbom at swipnet.se>
>         *To:* Steve <mailto:srussell at innernet.net>
>         *Cc:* Vorbis at xiph.org <mailto: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>
>         <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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