Icecast - Aug 2004 - ogg and mp3

For your "non-technical" listeners, both WinAmp 2 and 3 support OGG. 
And it's
free, as I'm sure you know.
Challenge them to listen to the difference too.  Once they hear how much 
better OGG sounds at the lower bitrates, I'm sure they won't mind
switching
over.

And you might as well try to force their hands away from Micro$oft's Windows
Media Player, if that's what they're trying to use.  =p

Just my 0.02 dollars advice.
>===== Original Message From Adon Irani <adon@YorkU.CA> ====>
i'm running a community-radio/ new-media project out of Barrie,
>Ontario/Canada . http://theDV8network.com ; free radio and fertile
>resistances, fresh from the Canadian underground .
>
>our listeners are not necessarily very technical . . but i've read
>Cathedral and the Bazaar , and of course i want to support ogg ( as an
>alternative media ). but i don't want to force my listeners into
>'installing an ogg player' , i want to offer one mp3 stream for
comforts
>sake .
>
>-//
>
>my question -- using icecast2/ices2 as the main server ,  what is the best
>way to offer an mp3 relay .
>
>ie. can i rename icecast2's 'icecast' to 'icecast2' ,
install
>icecast/liveice to run concurrently ..
>
>or , anyone have luck w/ streamTranscoder ?  looks promising , but it
>won't connect to the output stream's server correctly  .
>
>
>thanks ..
>
> a:/,
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> And you might as well try to force their hands away from Micro$oft's
Windows
> Media Player, if that's what they're trying to use.  =p
Ogg DS lets you play ogg vorbis streams in a "certain media player"
http://tobias.everwicked.com/oggds.htm

Although why you'd wanna do that i don't know, except when ur
downloading
ogg vorbis files with kazaalite (and presumably) kazaa, you'll be able to
play them in the theatre. Besides, wmplayer doesnt have winamps cool AVS =D

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