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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>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!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=geoff@hitsandpieces.net href="mailto:geoff@hitsandpieces.net">Geoff
Shang</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=Vorbis@xiph.org
href="mailto:Vorbis@xiph.org">Vorbis@xiph.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> re: [Vorbis] icecast</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi,<BR><BR>Sorry for breaking the threading, I originally sent
this from the wrong <BR>Email account.<BR><BR>Hi Steve,<BR><BR>I'm guessing
you want visitors to hear specific files from beginning to end.<BR>Icecast
doesn't really help you here either, or at least it doesn't do<BR>anything
that a simple webserver can't do. Icecast is meant for live<BR>streams
that people tune into the middle of, if that makes any sense.<BR><BR>My
suggestion is to get them to click on a .M3U or .PLS playlist pointing
to<BR>the file you want them to hear, and it should just work.<BR><BR>For
example:<BR><BR><A HREF="<A
href='http://www.myserver.com/song.m3u">Click'>http://www.myserver.com/song.m3u">Click</A>
here to listen</A><BR><BR>where song.m3u contains<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.myserver.com/song.ogg">http://www.myserver.com/song.ogg</A><BR><BR>You
can of course use Icecast in fileserving mode to serve files, and it<BR>will
autocreate .M3U files for you if asked to do so (e.g. by calling<BR><A
href="http://icecast.myserver.com:8000/song.ogg.m3u">http://icecast.myserver.com:8000/song.ogg.m3u</A>),
but installing Icecast<BR>simply to do this would be overkill<BR><BR>The .PLS
format is more complicated and I don't have an example in front of<BR>me, but
the advantage of using it is that you're much more likely to strike<BR>a
player with Vorbis support (M3U should open in the default MP3 player<BR>which
may not necessarily have the required codec installed).<BR><BR>Hope this
helps,<BR>Geoff.<BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Steve" <<A
href="mailto:srussell@innernet.net">srussell@innernet.net</A>><BR>To:
<<A href="mailto:Vorbis@xiph.org">Vorbis@xiph.org</A>><BR>Sent: Sunday,
April 29, 2007 7:35 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Vorbis] icecast<BR><BR><BR>(Yes, I can
reduce my font size.) Thanks for the great reply. I could use<BR>just a little
further clarification, please. I program with various<BR>softwares, so
I'm not inexperienced. I do not prefer to require my site<BR>visitors to
open/save files. I would prefer to stream transparently for<BR>those who
have an appropriate player. These clips range from 2 to 7 megs.<BR>So
trying to put together what you and I have written, would you perhaps
say<BR>that Icecast would be desirable for my purposes and would probably be
fairly<BR>easy for me to set up, and that it would not require anything but
a<BR>compatible player for my visitors?<BR> ----- Original Message -----
<BR> From: Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves<BR> To: <A
href="mailto:Vorbis@xiph.org">Vorbis@xiph.org</A><BR> Sent: Sunday,
April 29, 2007 12:22 PM<BR> Subject: Re: [Vorbis]
icecast<BR><BR><BR> Hello Steve,<BR><BR> If all you need is your
users to download files to play them locally,<BR> then Icecast is not
something you need. Icecast is for streaming. If<BR> you had
an online radio it would be very useful to you, though.<BR><BR>
Furthermore, Icecast is not easy to setup for the inexperienced<BR>
computer-user, albeit after setting up correctly, you probably<BR>
wouldn't have a need to touch it again ever. The process is<BR>
transparent for the users, though. They only need to open the<BR>
streaming file on winamp or any other audio player with stream
support<BR> and that's it.<BR><BR> Can I ask you a favor?
Would you reduce the font size on your future<BR> messages? Or
disable HTML e-mail completely if that works out better<BR> for
you. It's somewhat annoying.<BR><BR>Ivo<BR>
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