Icecast - May 2005 - Complete set of tools for Icecast

We are switching from Windows Media to Icecast. I want to get as close 
to open source as possible.

That means that I need the following open-source items:

Player for Windows (not Winamp if possible - it's now owned by AOL.)

Player for Mac

Player for Linux

We will also be podcasting, so that means our encoding needs to be 
compatible with the Apple iPod. Here's what it supports: MP3 (8 to 320 
Kbps), MP3 VBR, AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Music 
Store, M4A, M4B, M4P), Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4) and WAV (Some iPods 
also support AIFF)

As best as I can tell, we'll have to encode ogg vorbis for broadcast and 
MP3 for the iPods - unless one of the formats supported by the iPod is 
Open Source.

Also, I'd like to know anything you know about recording / encoding 
systems that are open source. The only one I am aware of at the moment 
is Audacity.

Thanks in advance for any ideas or info you have.

Geoff

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 14:51 -0500, Geoff Staples wrote:
> We are switching from Windows Media to Icecast. I want to get as close 
> to open source as possible.
Great. Do you also switch the operating system?
> Player for Windows
> Player for Mac
> Player for Linux
http://www.vorbis.com/software.psp
> We will also be podcasting, so that means our encoding needs to be 
> compatible with the Apple iPod. Here's what it supports: MP3 (8 to 320 
> Kbps), MP3 VBR, AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Music 
> Store, M4A, M4B, M4P), Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4) and WAV (Some iPods 
> also support AIFF)
Oups... no ogg....
> As best as I can tell, we'll have to encode ogg vorbis for broadcast
and
> MP3 for the iPods - unless one of the formats supported by the iPod is 
> Open Source.
Xiph softwares/tools, AFAIK, dont encode to mp3. Only to ogg.
> Also, I'd like to know anything you know about recording / encoding 
> systems that are open source. The only one I am aware of at the moment 
> is Audacity.
Ices2 cant encode On the fly to ogg from the line-in.
On modern linux system you can directly read from /dev/dsp, then
equalize with sox then encode to ogg. You can also optionally normalize
with normalize. All on the fly if you have enough CPU + RAM. And All in
command line.


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> Player for Windows (not Winamp if possible - it's now owned by AOL.)
Here are some Ogg Vorbis solutions for Windows.

Winamp v5 or v2
Foobar2000
Windows Media Player with Plugin
Real Player 10 with Plugin
Quintessential Player

Regards,
Ross.
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Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote:
> Ices2 cant encode On the fly to ogg from the line-in.

huh?  Of course it can.  Always has, IIRC.

Geoff.

Some other worthwhile (gpl) players are:
http://www.videolan.org/ (win,lin,mac)
http://zinf.org/ (win,lin)

I have not tried but imagine ices0 can save the stream to mp3 format.



Geoff Staples wrote:
> We are switching from Windows Media to Icecast. I want to get as close
> to open source as possible.
>
> That means that I need the following open-source items:
>
> Player for Windows (not Winamp if possible - it's now owned by AOL.)
>
> Player for Mac
>
> Player for Linux
>
> We will also be podcasting, so that means our encoding needs to be
> compatible with the Apple iPod. Here's what it supports: MP3 (8 to 320
> Kbps), MP3 VBR, AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Music
> Store, M4A, M4B, M4P), Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4) and WAV (Some
> iPods also support AIFF)
>
> As best as I can tell, we'll have to encode ogg vorbis for broadcast
> and MP3 for the iPods - unless one of the formats supported by the
> iPod is Open Source.
>
> Also, I'd like to know anything you know about recording / encoding
> systems that are open source. The only one I am aware of at the moment
> is Audacity.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas or info you have.
>
> Geoff
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On 30/05/05, Geoff Staples <geoff@hostricity.com>
wrote:
> We are switching from Windows Media to Icecast. I want to get as close
> to open source as possible.
> 
> That means that I need the following open-source items:
> 
> Player for Windows (not Winamp if possible - it's now owned by AOL.)
> Player for Mac
> Player for Linux
I do like videoLAN player, and it's all three of the above!
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

> We will also be podcasting, so that means our encoding needs to be
> compatible with the Apple iPod. Here's what it supports: MP3 (8 to 320
> Kbps), MP3 VBR, AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Music
> Store, M4A, M4B, M4P), Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4) and WAV (Some iPods
> also support AIFF)
> 
> As best as I can tell, we'll have to encode ogg vorbis for broadcast
and
> MP3 for the iPods - unless one of the formats supported by the iPod is
> Open Source.
> 
> Also, I'd like to know anything you know about recording / encoding
> systems that are open source. The only one I am aware of at the moment
> is Audacity.
I use Audacity for a lot of work. Surprisingly useful, given its easy interface.

Dan
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