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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

Version 2.3.2 is the current version in the debian wheezy repo.  As you 
noted, I am playing mp3 audio which doesn't really seem to be supported 
in newer versions?  I started out using ices0 but discovered ices-cc 
which seems to be a bit newer.  Ices2 didn't appear to support mp3 at all.

The entire setup is pieced together with Ampache to manage the playlists 
and track data, plus I have been through several iterations of my php 
script which generates the track lists for ices-cc to play.  The entire 
setup is such a mix of different software that I would be afraid of 
changing anything.

As for the hatred of mp3 files... My audio library is nearly 600GB. 
Converting it to ogg or something else would do nothing but degrade the 
quality of the files, and require a considerable amount of time.  It's 
simply not worth the effort.

I only run the stream at 128kb to limit my bandwidth usage.  I listen to 
it all day from work, and the quality sounds fine to me. I'm not exactly 
running hi-def speakers here. :-)

Oh, and I wasn't planning on publishing realtime data from other 
stations, I just wanted to set up a single place where someone might 
browse through the available stations and launch off to their respective 
websites and/or streams.

On 11/18/2014 10:27 PM, Philipp Schafft wrote:
> reflum,
>
> On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 16:15 -0700, Jeff Taylor wrote:
> > In case anyone is interested, I've been setting up some code for a radio
> > station I run from my server.
> Just a little bit of technical feedback:
> You are running a very old version of Icecast (2.3.2). We are currently
> releasing 2.4.1. ;) There had been many changes including many security
> changes.
>
> Also you run the stream in MP3 wich isn't officially supported. ... and
> you do so in a very low quality. Is there any problem with upgrading to
> some supported codec and a little bit more of quality? (I'm talking
> about quality, not bitrate!)
>
>
> > Anyway, just thought I'd throw it out there in case there's any
> > interest.  I'd like to set up the radio.free domain as a starting point
> > to collect all opennic radio stations, so let me know if you have one
> > you might want to add to the list (please give website and stream URL,
> > and let me know if you have a name for it and/or any preference on a
> > three-digit number).
> If there is a significant number you could also set up a stream
> directory. That way you can publish all the interesting information but
> do not need to cooperate with the operators more than they pushing the
> data to your directory in addition to what they are sending them to by
> now (if any).
>
>
> Have a nice day!