Mikka Dusza
2004-Sep-23 22:19 UTC
[Icecast] random playing order and forum location question
> I'm not sure exactly what it is you want to do. You say you want several > genre-based mountpoints, but you then want to randomly switch betweenthem.> Wouldn't it be easier to just have one stream of files randomly selected > from the various genres? Or maybe I'm missing something?1. I tried the ezstream with a m3u file and works fine. Worked after 5 seconds, but the icecast didnt. I'm partially happy, but what I would like to is described in the next point. Thanks to Geoff Shang who advised me the ezstream. 2. I have a folder (windows 2k) with couple of sub-folders and files like this: ... genre types... rock.m3u (about 70 files) disco.m3u (about 50 files) metal.m3u (about 250 files) ... and so on ... and these kind of files: David Bowie.m3u (22 items) Mike Oldfield.m3u (97 files) Sting.m3u (37 files) Tangerine Dreams.m3u (45 files) ... and so on ... so (locally) when I would like to listen to disco genre, I start winamp use the disco.m3u, enables random order and enables looping. Sometimes I feel that I'd like to listen metal, so use the metal.m3u, enables random order and enables looping. Sometimes I feel that I'd like to listen only Tangerine Dreams only, so I use the Tangerine Dreams.m3u, enables random order and enables looping. This works fine, but I'd like to have the same (I hope it's not hard) as streaming also. So from my workplace if I feel I'd like to listen rock I'd like to use the http://mysite.here.is:8000/rock. If I feel that I'd like to listen to Sting, I'd like to use the http://mysite.here.is:8000/sting. And so on. With ezstream I succesfully stream one m3u file, but nothing more and the playing order is sequential and not random. Thanks in advance, dusza
Geoff Shang
2004-Sep-24 06:13 UTC
[Icecast] random playing order and forum location question
Hi: Oops. Apologies. Didn't know that Ezstream couldn't do random. I'd suggest Ices except you use windows. I wonder if you could use one of the remote control packages for winamp, and just run the one stream from there? Get winamp to do the switching just as if you were at home. That's all I can think of that's economical. Geoff.
James McCurrach
2004-Sep-24 08:07 UTC
[Icecast] random playing order and forum location question
You could try Snackamp (it's cross-platform) - it does playlists, multi-user, shuffle, streaming etc. To my knowledge it doesn't do reencoding etc like ices does. I've only dabbled with it but I found it easy enough to set up and run. http://snackamp.sourceforge.net/ James On 9/24/2004, "Geoff Shang" <geoff@hitsandpieces.net> wrote:>Hi: > >Oops. Apologies. Didn't know that Ezstream couldn't do random. I'd >suggest Ices except you use windows. > >I wonder if you could use one of the remote control packages for winamp, >and just run the one stream from there? Get winamp to do the switching >just as if you were at home. That's all I can think of that's economical. > >Geoff. >_______________________________________________ >Icecast mailing list >Icecast@xiph.org >http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast