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Icecast 2.0 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the internet-radio-made-easy dept.

ArcRiley writes "After 3 years of development and 6 weeks of beta testing, Icecast 2.0 has been officially released! Features include support for both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, a web administration interface, support for listing in directories (such as dir.xiph.org), and is freely available under the GNU GPL for Linux and Windows."

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  1. Icecast is great.. by iantri · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Icecast is a great piece of software.. I use it to stream music to myself when I am away from my PC.

    Any idea if there is a better interface for controlling which songs play, yet?

    Before, IIRC it could only shuffle through a bunch of files in a directory.

  2. Autodisconnect from relays by kaos_ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd like to run Icecast in our office relaying to some external streams to utilize bandwidth for many listeners. Unfortunately, Icecast stays connected to the relays even when there are no listeners, which is a waste. I remember earlier versions of Icecast had this feature, but it has now since gone.

  3. for non-pro/home broadcasting to take off by osmethnee · · Score: 5, Interesting

    for non-pro/home broadcasting to take off, there needs to be an underlying p2p network layer. This is particularly true as live video-streaming becomes more popular. http://www.peercast.org/ exists, but sadly doesn't seem to have been updated for 9 months, and activity in their forum is fairly low.