Icecast - Aug 2004 - Newbie question - on demand streaming?

Hi,

Just thinking about migrating from Shoutcast.....  I have a question on how
to make Icecast behave as I have Shoutcast running, and provide "on
demand"
streaming via my web server. In other words, currently I have a link on my
webserver such as thus:

http://myserver.org:9000/content/mytrack.pls

....and the user is connected to the Shoutcast server running on port 9000
and streamed the mp3 in the content directory whenever they click on this
link.

What do I need and how do I make Icecast behave the same?  I can find stuff
about broadcasting live streams to the server, but not using it "on
demand".  Just some general pointers to tools and config would be much
appreciated......

Thnx,

Steve

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> Just thinking about migrating from Shoutcast.....  I have a question on how
> to make Icecast behave as I have Shoutcast running, and provide "on
demand"
> streaming via my web server. In other words, currently I have a link on my
> webserver such as thus:
If you already ahve a websserver, why use icecast or shoutcast at all?  

jack.

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Hi,
>> Just thinking about migrating from Shoutcast.....  I have a question
>> on how to make Icecast behave as I have Shoutcast running, and provide
>> "on demand" streaming via my web server. In other words,
currently I
>> have a link on my webserver such as thus:
>
> If you already ahve a websserver, why use icecast or shoutcast at all?
Well, a number of reasons.  Dedicated streamers are better at streaming
audio/video than webservers, the major reason for using Shoutcast et
al.  .m3u files suck (which is how I presume you feel I should be streaming
from my webserver).....I seem to remember you have to play around with mime
types et al.  Dedicated streaming gives me the ability to do live
broadcasts and thus gives me greater flexability than just using my
webserver.  Webservers are intended for delivering markup language and are
good at it.  Thus I prefer leaving them to do that and that alone.
Seperating duties tends to give a nicely cohesive environment...i.e. My
webserver dishes up web pages, my audio server dishes up audio.  Nice
design principles in there somewhere.  etc etc.....I could go on.

The reason I wanna go Icecast is that I'd like a truly GPL'd
environment,
not some pseudo one like Shoutcast.

So lets just take it for given that I'm mad and that I'm gonna use a
dedicated streamer such as Icecast.  Can I make it behave like Shoutcast's
on demand feature detailed in my original mail?

Rgds,

Steve Huckle


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