Streaming Audio

Justin W. Pauler jwpauler at airroverwifi.com
Wed Jul 21 07:58:18 PDT 2004


Michael,

I have heard that XMMS will allow me to stream to a Shoutcast or IceCast
server, however, I wasn't able to find a way to compile XMMS WITHOUT the
GUI; it seemed you had to build the whole thing!

--
Justin W. Pauler

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Clark [mailto:MClark at Nemschoff.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:38 AM
To: 'jwpauler at airroverwifi.com'; questions at freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Streaming Audio

I have used Xmms to get into shoutcast broadcast before.

Michael Clark
Nemschoff Chairs Inc
mclark at nemschoff dot com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin W. Pauler [mailto:jwpauler at airroverwifi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:29 AM
> To: questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Streaming Audio
> 
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I've got quite a collection of Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) files on my FreeBSD 
> machine that I would like to be able to stream for personal use 
> (really I'd like to be able to listen to them at work! :)) I've done 
> quite a bit of research and can't find any software to do exactly what 
> I need.
> 
> IceCast and Shoutcast look like they'll both work just fine for the 
> server, no problems there. However, as for the source client, that's 
> another story.
> This machine was built as a mini-server, I use it for IRC/DNS/WWW and 
> so forth, therefore, has no X server and no soundcard (for the record 
> it has a soundcard built onto the motherboard AC97, but FreeBSD 4.10 
> sees it as chip0, so I don't think it's useable), and all of the 
> source clients I have found either require a soundcard or the X system 
> to be installed.
> 
> Is there any help for me? I remember the days of Windows streaming 
> with Shoutcast, in that case, Winamp connected with a socket to 
> shoutcast and completely bypassed the soundcard... Anything like that 
> for FreeBSD?
> 
> Thanks All
> 
> 
> --
> Justin W. Pauler
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