Streaming Audio

[Justin W. Pauler]

Andrew,

No, everything is console based. For example, my setup consists of:

	1. Making a playlist: a text file listing each song
		in my collection (locate *.ogg >> playlist)

	2. Starting IceCast

	3. Starting IceS

	4. Listening

IceS then reads the playlist file that is created and by configuration,
either randomly picks a song or goes in sequential order, again, that is up
to you. I generally like the system, not bad at all, the only thing I wish I
could do was call up songs on a whim, which out of the box cannot be done,
however, with a little php script on the webserver, I'm going to do just
that (add the new song to the top of the playlist and send a SIGHUP).

But yes, everything is console based, and I used it for well over 8 hours
today without a single dropout or audio problem.

--
Justin W. Pauler     

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew L. Gould [mailto:algould at datawok.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 4:34 PM
> To: questions at freebsd.org; jwpauler at airroverwifi.com
> Subject: Re: Streaming Audio
> 
> On Thursday 22 July 2004 09:29 am, Justin W. Pauler wrote:
> > Alexander,
> >
> > Thanks to you and everyone else who provided insight on 
> this problem.
> > I actually got everything finished and working late last 
> night using 
> > IceS as the stream client and IceCast to stream out the music. It 
> > works quite well, I've actually made a big playlist of all my songs 
> > and it randomly plays all of them.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > --
> > Justin W. Pauler
> 
> Does the client rely on a GUI?  If not, is it easy to select 
> songs from the console?
> 
> I ask because I have an opportunity to trade some old parts 
> for an old laptop (133Mhz, 16MB RAM, etc).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Gould
>