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Hi all, I'm looking to migrate from Shoutcast to Icecast. Our current configuration is such that we have a low bitrate encoding on port 8000, and a high bitrate encoding on 889. I've been looking through the documentation but haven't found a good way to make this happen in Icecast. We're using Darkice to stream to the server, and that does the different enodings fine, but

...cast side I can't figure out > how to set the same mount point ( / ), have different data on different > ports. > > Is this possible? Or do I have to run separate Icecast instances? You can run your two streams on one icecast, configuring them as (for example) /lowbitrate and /highbitrate in your source client. Then you can configure port-specific aliases for these, so you have "/ on port 8000" --> "/lowbitrate" and "/ on port 889" --> "/highbitrate". >From the point of view of the source clients, they can use either port, it'...