Icecast - Aug 2004 - Seeking in a static icecast stream

I currently utilize Icecast on my website, but I am looking for the same 
kind of functionality as I get with realaudio server when I stream 
static content - namely, the ability to seek, show the time remaining, 
etc, especially with Vorbis audio.

I realize the intent of Icecast is to serve mainly live, streaming 
content (or at least radio-style content), but I utilize it mostly for 
streaming static files already on my webserver.

Does anyone have any tips on whether or not this is at all possible with 
Icecast, and/or if there are any other open-source projects (barring the 
Helix DNA server project), that would offer this on a WinXP platform?

Thanx in advance!
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On Tuesday 24 February 2004 13:30, HidayahOnline.org Admin
wrote:
> I currently utilize Icecast on my website, but I am looking for the same
> kind of functionality as I get with realaudio server when I stream
> static content - namely, the ability to seek, show the time remaining,
> etc, especially with Vorbis audio.
>
> I realize the intent of Icecast is to serve mainly live, streaming
> content (or at least radio-style content), but I utilize it mostly for
> streaming static files already on my webserver.
>
> Does anyone have any tips on whether or not this is at all possible with
> Icecast, and/or if there are any other open-source projects (barring the
> Helix DNA server project), that would offer this on a WinXP platform?
>
This should be possible to implement in icecast, but it's not currently 
supported.

I think it'd require:
Sending correct content-length headers for static content (I think we already 
do this? It's easy, anyway)
Supporting the Range (or is it Content-Range? I forget) header. This is fairly 
complex, but not really that hard.

Mike

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Michael Smith wrote:
>This should be possible to implement in icecast, but it's not currently 
>supported.
>
>I think it'd require:
>Sending correct content-length headers for static content (I think we
already
>do this? It's easy, anyway)
>Supporting the Range (or is it Content-Range? I forget) header. This is
fairly
>complex, but not really that hard.
>
>Mike
>
Is anybody working on this, or should I just on the dev-list and throw 
in the suggestion?  If Icecast were to implement this, then Realaudio 
server would have very little in terms of most usage over Icecast.  It 
would easily allow a large library of audio to be accessible, but not 
downloadable, for many people, with no sideeffects or problems.

For example, it is difficult and not always reliable to seek in a Vorbis 
stream when using HTTP-push (is that what it is when you just download 
it and listen to it via Winamp - pseudo-streaming?)
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