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On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Geoff Shang wrote: | IMHO, the fact that icecast 1.x only supports MP3 and not ogg vorbis makes | it obsolete. Thanks for, in effect, telling the people who still reply on icecast1 that they're useless. As that would make us put a lot of faith in icecast 2. You people need to get over your "If it isnt ogg, it's shit" mentality. Ogg itself is barely a few

...'ll offer an alternate theory . KiSS - keEp it simple sir ; why should the icecast2 developers be guilt-tripped into repeating icecast's performance ? _ is it not enough that OGG can have a streaming server that supports it ? can't that feature base be developed and stabalized prior to prettyin' up the package w/ features from the original icecast ? another question -- who do you think develops these things ?? go read "Cathedral and the Bazaar" somewhere on the web or in a bo0kstore near you . . don't expect everything , and you won't have to deal w/ sh*t/rushed c...

...equirement to have a fully-functional streamer. Unfortunately, I believe this is not sufficient for the user base. So, if the developers are interested in providing something that other people want to use, then it is not enough. > can't that feature base be developed and stabalized prior to prettyin' up > the package w/ features from the original icecast ? Yes, it certainly can. But don't call the feature base released. Call it a work in progress (an alpha, in other words). > > another question -- who do you think develops these things ?? go read > "Cathedral and t...

...y nothing else. I'm sorry, but past precedents and the state of streaming technology today dictates that it do more than that to be considered useful. | _ is it not enough that OGG can have a streaming server that supports it ? | can't that feature base be developed and stabalized prior to prettyin' up | the package w/ features from the original icecast ? | | another question -- who do you think develops these things ?? go read | "Cathedral and the Bazaar" somewhere on the web or in a bo0kstore near you | . . don't expect everything , and you won't have to deal w/ sh*t...