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Date:      Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:58:49 -0300 (ADT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Radio Station ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909170858320.27097-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.16.19990916103943.13e76c88@shell7.ba.best.com>

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On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Ross Finlayson wrote:

> >	At the local University that I work at, they are planning on
> >setting up a "Internet Radio Station"...I've talked them into using
> >FreeBSD, and now that I've put my foot in it...what software is available
> >for doing this?  Any? :?)
> 
> If you're interested in doing both unicast *and* multicast, then you might
> want to consider streaming MP3 audio.  On your FreeBSD server machine you
> can set up "LiveIce" (to do the encoding to MP3) and "Icecast" to do the
> streaming, to server unicast customers.  (See <http://www.icecast.org/>)
> 
> Then, for multicast customers, you can use a program like "liveCaster"
> <http://www.live.com/liveCaster/>.  This can take its input from an Icecast
> stream (or from locally-stored .mp3 files, or from stdin).

*Beautiful*...you answered another question I had...looking at that now :)

Thanks...

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 



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