Icecast - Oct 2011 - Question from a newby

My name is Chuck and I am very very new to Icecast. I work at a Radio
Reading Service and I am looking for something that will let me stream
audio and be played on both a pc, mac/Iphone. In short, will Icecast
do this?

Thanks to all who respond to a question that I'm sure for some will
seem very elementary at best!!!

Chuck

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Chuck Adkins wrote:
> My name is Chuck and I am very very new to Icecast. I work at a Radio
> Reading Service and I am looking for something that will let me stream
> audio and be played on both a pc, mac/Iphone. In short, will Icecast
> do this?
Yes.

On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:04:48AM -0400, Chuck Adkins
wrote:
> My name is Chuck and I am very very new to Icecast. I work at a Radio
> Reading Service and I am looking for something that will let me stream
> audio and be played on both a pc, mac/Iphone. In short, will Icecast
> do this?
Yes, but icecast on its own won't do it.

For live sources you can use it in conjunction with ices1 (MP3 only),
ices2 (Ogg Vorbis only) or darkice (Vorbis, MP3 and AAC+, even
simultaneously if you want).

Don't forget the possibility of using a sound card's loopback (record
from output) option. That gives you the flexibility to use any playout
program you like.

-- 
Paul Martin <pm at nowster.me.uk>