Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to use icecast after my provider installs for my record company web site. My provider is willing to install it so I can stream my mp3 files. I'm pretty sure that icecast will be good for what I want but once it is installed by my provider I'm not sure how I access it. Right now I just have a link to an MP3 file and it does HTTP transfers of the music to whoever clicks on it. It is sometimes very slow and that's why they have offered to put in a streaming server. Do I just have the plain link to the MP3 file and the server knows how to stream it. Probably not. What I think happens is that you give a playlist of an .m3u file. I really don't want a play list so is it OK to just give one song for instance song1.m3u has the information that plays song1.mp3 through the streaming server. I hope I don't sound like too much of a novice in this but I am confused and I thought you would be the best people to ask. Any and all information you can give me I'd appreciate. Thanks, <p>Steve Lewis <p><p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:06:34PM -0400, Steve Lewis wrote:> > Right now I just have a link to an MP3 file and it does HTTP transfers > of the music to whoever clicks on it. It is sometimes very slow and > that's why they have offered to put in a streaming server. Do I just > have the plain link to the MP3 file and the server knows how to stream > it. Probably not. What I think happens is that you give a playlist of an > .m3u file. I really don't want a play list so is it OK to just give one > song for instance song1.m3u has the information that plays song1.mp3 > through the streaming server.For this you don't need Icecast at all. Icecast is for streaming a radio, not for streaming individual files on-demand. Just put a m3u file that points to the URL of the file on the web server. The m3u file is sent to their media player, which will then begin grabbing and playing the audio file. Now beyond all this, heavy recommendation to use Ogg Vorbis instead of MP3 to distribute music content. It'll save on license fees, bandwidth and hosting fees (since Ogg can be much smaller than MP3 at comperable quality), and is accessable by just about any modern media player. If you choose to go with the same bitrate (thus same file sizes) as you would with MP3 it'll also result in higher quality music at the same bitrate, which of course means the artist's music will sound better. It's a no-brainer :-) <p><p> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: part Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/attachments/20030619/d563ff52/part.pgp
On 19 Jun 2003 at 21:20, Arc wrote:> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:06:34PM -0400, Steve Lewis wrote: > > > > Right now I just have a link to an MP3 file and it does HTTP > > transfers of the music to whoever clicks on it. It is sometimes very > > slow and that's why they have offered to put in a streaming server. > > Do I just have the plain link to the MP3 file and the server knows > > how to stream it. Probably not. What I think happens is that you > > give a playlist of an .m3u file. I really don't want a play list so > > is it OK to just give one song for instance song1.m3u has the > > information that plays song1.mp3 through the streaming server. > > For this you don't need Icecast at all. Icecast is for streaming a > radio, not for streaming individual files on-demand.Well, on the other hand it would make sense to use a streaming server for on-demand-streaming if you: a) use protocols like RTSP for reliable and dynamic transfer b) don't want to allow the user to download tracks But since you can't achieve these points with icecast2 (up to now) Arc is right you don't need a streaming server. (Hmm - maybe somebody works out an RTSP-plugin for icecast2? *g*) Stefan --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.