Re: internet radio and linux!

[Mike Gorse <mgorse WPI EDU>]

Take a look at icecast.  I don't have the url off-hand, but you should be
able to get it by searching http://www.freshmeat.net.

I haven't used this program personally, but it may do what you want.

--Michael Gorse, WPI Cs '01 / ICQ:22583968 / http://www.wpi.edu/~mgorse/ --
     If you're an oister, then don't let your perl get away from you.

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, brent harding wrote:

> 				Is there any easy to use program that allows one to send streaming
> audio over the internet in linux? I'm tired of those hard to use graphical
> programs in windows that don't really do what I'd like. I want a program
> that works good with speakup. Also, I want it to allow me to specify times
> to play certain things over the stream. I want it to not pause so long
> between songs. I would also like to be able to record shows at certain
> times from the internet, either from media player streams, realaudio, or
> mp3-shoutcast streams. I was thinking of a script that would play a song,
> sleep for a few seconds less than the duration of the song and continue
> playing the next songs. I don't really know how to do stuff like that
> though, especially when the time stuff comes in to specify to cut off
> what's playing, or wait until it's done and play it. It'd be too hard to
> play every song and time it to see how long it lasts to subtract a few
> seconds to make the script, but harder still to remember the times to write
> scripts to play it in the future. I find that if I do play commands one
> after another, with my sblive sound card, I hear the songs all played at
> once, I really don't want that. What program does this type of thing that's
> speech friendly debian linux 2.2? I found a radio program, called radio,
> but it deceived me, it was for controlling radio tuner cards, not what I
> had in mind. I found icecast, but there's not much of an interface to it to
> do much with, windblows is needed to connect to it to feed the stream in,
> and I'll have to relay it to a free net station provider called
> live365.com, so I'm limited pretty much to streaming mp3. Is there an easy
> way to put live content in the stream, like you can in windows? Is it
> possible to make it record from the mike and mp3 source at the same time,
> so I don't have to edit config files and reboot every time I want to
> switch, or get the annoying click when you do it?
>  
> 
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