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ummm...what IS your station ? oddsock At 12:10 PM 6/21/2003 +1200, you wrote: >I've specified a number of genres for my station separated by commas >(Newage, World, Easy Listening, Folk) and doing a freeform search on any of >these doesn't display my station. Is a fix needed or should I separate >genres with something else? It is listed on http://yp.icecast.net >

...gt; number of listeners on the IceCast2 server and only send the audio when > listeners > 0. Perhaps the metadata could continue to be sent. This would > reduce bandwidth requirements substantially when there are several hundred, > perhaps thousands of streams as planned by http://www.rville.com. ummm. But you need a stream for people to tune into. I don't think that's going to work. However, you could perhaps use relaying. I've not messed with relaying with icecast 2.x, but icecast 1.x could be set up so that if the server pulled a relay, it would only connect to the...

...gt; number of listeners on the IceCast2 server and only send the audio when > listeners > 0. Perhaps the metadata could continue to be sent. This would > reduce bandwidth requirements substantially when there are several hundred, > perhaps thousands of streams as planned by http://www.rville.com. > > It would also be very useful to me as I have a 5gig limit per month on my > DSL which only allows me to broadcast for 14 days continuously at 32kb/s. > I could extend this considerably. > > What do you think? Any possibility for the future? As described, this wouldn...

...gt; number of listeners on the IceCast2 server and only send the audio when > listeners > 0. Perhaps the metadata could continue to be sent. This would > reduce bandwidth requirements substantially when there are several hundred, > perhaps thousands of streams as planned by http://www.rville.com. > > It would also be very useful to me as I have a 5gig limit per month on my > DSL which only allows me to broadcast for 14 days continuously at 32kb/s. I > could extend this considerably. > > What do you think? Any possibility for the future? > > Regards, > Ross...