[Vorbis] icecast

[Steve]

Thanks.  The full url does work . . . but I'd like to know why!  I read that it is desirable to use the relative reference, so I had gone with that.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Oscar Sundbom 
  To: Steve 
  Cc: Vorbis at xiph.org 
  Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:06 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vorbis] icecast


  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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