[Vorbis] icecast

[Steve]

You guys have taken a big load off of my mind and solved it to my great satisfaction, including further educating me on the possibilities of Icecast.  I am now streaming my oggs from my server with Winamp.  Many thanks!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Geoff Shang 
  To: Vorbis at xiph.org 
  Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:52 PM
  Subject: re: [Vorbis] icecast


  Hi,

  Sorry for breaking the threading, I originally sent this from the wrong 
  Email account.

  Hi Steve,

  I'm guessing you want visitors to hear specific files from beginning to end.
  Icecast doesn't really help you here either, or at least it doesn't do
  anything that a simple webserver can't do.  Icecast is meant for live
  streams that people tune into the middle of, if that makes any sense.

  My suggestion is to get them to click on a .M3U or .PLS playlist pointing to
  the file you want them to hear, and it should just work.

  For example:

  <A HREF="http://www.myserver.com/song.m3u">Click here to listen</A>

  where song.m3u contains

  http://www.myserver.com/song.ogg

  You can of course use Icecast in fileserving mode to serve files, and it
  will autocreate .M3U files for you if asked to do so (e.g. by calling
  http://icecast.myserver.com:8000/song.ogg.m3u), but installing Icecast
  simply to do this would be overkill

  The .PLS format is more complicated and I don't have an example in front of
  me, but the advantage of using it is that you're much more likely to strike
  a player with Vorbis support (M3U should open in the default MP3 player
  which may not necessarily have the required codec installed).

  Hope this helps,
  Geoff.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Steve" <srussell at innernet.net>
  To: <Vorbis at xiph.org>
  Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:35 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vorbis] icecast


  (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?
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
    To: 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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