Suggestions for streaming audio?

Matt Morgan minxmertzmomo at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 21:10:17 UTC 2006


On 12/8/06, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I may have the need to do some live audio streaming soon, so I am
> > doing some preemtive research on the topic. The last time I did any of
> > this was on Windows with Windows Encoder no less. I have since grown
> > to hate Windows and would much rather do this in Linux. Since Fedora
> > is my distro of choice I ask you guys:
> >
> > What is the status of audio streaming (and I suppose recording) on
> > Linux? What are hardware requirements like? I would doubt that they
> > would be high, but I rather not assume too much.
> >
> > The application would be for live audio of the classical music type, I
> > have no preference yet of codec, but I am guessing that the avg.
> > simultaneous connections once it is fully up and running would be at
> > least 50, but I am just guessing at this point.
> >
> > Please let me know what your thoughts, and esp your experiences are.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> I use icecast at home for my streaming jukebox on my LAN at home.  It's
> solid, handle MP3 and OGG files and can handle the 650GB or so of audio
> files I have.  I use an old 400MHz PC with 256MB RAM and it seems to
> handle the streaming fine with a half dozen connections or so.

Just curious: for home use, what is the advantage of streaming vs.
just setting up a file share, shared to the "receiving" system?

I have an old laptop plugged into my stereo and I just play files over
NFS. But I've always wondered if I should try Icecast instead.

Thanks,
Matt




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