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...are known to be able to tune in. >Or people who value freedom and want to use only Free technology. This >serves a few purposes though. a) a directory admin could lock this >field to a single value, doing service for only Vorbis for example. b) >supporing legacy and discontinue or nonupgradeable products that are MP3 >only will need to know. Locking the field is fine.. but I think this goes back to separating the front-end from the back-end. Listing it in the directory listings is just silly IMHO. It's even sillier if the admin only wants to support technology X, as it would j...

...over another (Mpeg vs. ogg vs. wma vs. whatever). Or people who value freedom and want to use only Free technology. This serves a few purposes though. a) a directory admin could lock this field to a single value, doing service for only Vorbis for example. b) supporing legacy and discontinue or nonupgradeable products that are MP3 only will need to know. And of course, if you think that people don't care about quality at lower bitrates, then I disagree with you. I would chose a Vorbis stream over a MP3 stream any day, if the rest of their attribute were similar. > >ttl > >...

So I've been doing some research and thinking here and there about what a _good_ directory service for icecast would be like. I'd appreciate some feedback and some discussion on this topic, before I start putting a lot of effort into developing it. First off, I think getting rid of # of listeners is a must. It just creates a self-fulfilling prophecy and encourages cheating. I think the