ok this has to be FAQ #1 but it's not in my FAQ file... how do i get it so going to my server (http://pretension.com:8000/) starts an mp3 player streaming instead of opening up a 51M download window? anybody got a nice site with lots of fancy stuff like playlists and such? i want to look at it to get some ideas... i'd like a log of what was played. this has to be fairly basic stuff... -jsd- --- >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 Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Jon Drukman wrote:> ok this has to be FAQ #1 but it's not in my FAQ file... > > how do i get it so going to my server (http://pretension.com:8000/) starts > an mp3 player streaming instead of opening up a 51M download window?You don't. It doesn't work like that. The browser won't launch an app until the given file is downloaded which, for a live stream, will never happen. What you have to do is to use an M3U or PLS file (M3U is more widely supported) containing the above URL. When clicked on, this file will be downloaded and passed off to your MP3 player. Example: <A HREF="stream.m3u">click here to listen</A> tream.m3u contains your http://pretension.com:8000/ address. When someone clicks on the link, stream.m3u is downloaded and then opened by their MP3 player. the player reads the URL and starts streaming that content. Yes, this does need to be in the FAQ as it's an extremely common question. Geoff. --- >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.
At 12:31 PM 10/11/2001 +1000, you wrote:>On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Jon Drukman wrote: > > > ok this has to be FAQ #1 but it's not in my FAQ file... > > > > how do i get it so going to my server (http://pretension.com:8000/) starts > > an mp3 player streaming instead of opening up a 51M download window? > >You don't. It doesn't work like that. The browser won't launch an app >until the given file is downloaded which, for a live stream, will never >happen. What you have to do is to use an M3U or PLS file (M3U is more >widely supported) containing the above URL. When clicked on, this file >will be downloaded and passed off to your MP3 player. Example: > ><A HREF="stream.m3u">click here to listen</A>This isn't true. He can also do either of these two things : 1. Open http://pretension.com:8000/playlist.pls?mount=/icy_0&file=dummy.pls in his browser. (assuming he is using mountpoint 0) 2. Open http://pretension.com:8000 in his player. There is no need to create a pls/m3u and open it, icecast generates these on-the-fly with the URL used in #1. --- >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.