Streaming internet radio to users on e-smith???

Scott Lewis

Streaming internet radio to users on e-smith???

« on: January 23, 2002, 04:58:58 PM »

I was thinking, as I have a mp3 jukebox setup, is there an app that will also allow me say to have a pre-programmed radio station or one that can be chosen, then a user on the e-smith network, can also listen to this station.

Any ideas,

Scott

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Steve MacGregor

Re: Streaming internet radio to users on e-smith???

« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2002, 06:22:25 PM »

I have the MP3 Jukebox installed, and was also thinking about setting up streaming audio. From what I have found, the ShoutCast server sounds like a winner, but I have not had the time to install it yet. Does anyone out there have any experience with running the ShoutCast server on SMEv5?

Steve

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Terry Brummell

Re: Streaming internet radio to users on e-smith???

« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2002, 06:42:29 PM »

The Unix version of ShoutCast (http://www.shoutcast.com/download/files.phtml) works fine on SMEv5update3. Only thing I haven't done is set it up to start automatically on reboot, I have to SSH in and manually start it but that's no big deal for me.

Steve MacGregor wrote:
>
> I have the MP3 Jukebox installed, and was also thinking about
> setting up streaming audio. From what I have found, the
> ShoutCast server sounds like a winner, but I have not had the
> time to install it yet. Does anyone out there have any
> experience with running the ShoutCast server on SMEv5?
>
> Steve

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Scott Lewis

Re: Streaming internet radio to users on e-smith???

« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2002, 01:03:53 AM »

Fancy doing a basic How To Install and Setup, especially when you get it to start on boot up.

Also, if you can get it configured so the outside world, eg those on the web can also use it, would be great.

Scott

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jm

Re: Streaming internet radio to users on e-smith???

« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2002, 03:46:08 PM »

Has anyone tried to install icecast (www.icecast.org) on SME 5 and how does it compare with shoutcast. Do you have a howto for shoutcast server and could you share it with us.

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Steve MacGregor

Re: Streaming internet radio to users on e-smith???

« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2002, 06:09:53 PM »

I suppose I could cook up a fresh little How-To pretty easily if I can get a little backing from someone with their feet firmly planted over on the technical side. Anyone willing to remind me of a few linux commands as I work through it?

Regards,

Steve

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Terry Brummell

Re: Streaming internet radio to users on e-smith???

« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2002, 08:34:21 PM »

I'm not the best person for writing a How-To, that's for sure....I'm sure I'd miss a couple of steps...
All I did was untar (tar -xvf filemname) the file to a path (/usr/local/shoutcast), which it created a subdirectory under....DOH!! Then I just pico'd the sc_serv.conf file, modified per the README file and started the server with ./sc_serv & (including the &) per the directions.
Hope it helps, it really is very easy to configure.

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Obi Wan

Re: Streaming internet radio to users on e-smith???

« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2002, 06:16:39 PM »

I'm not offering to write a HOWTO as I'm absolutely cr@p at that sort of thing but I can say that I've had RealServer quite happily running on my SME 5.0.3 (PII-300/128Mb/10Gb/512k cable modem) box at home and watched a 128kbs streamed copy of Star Wars IV: A New Hope from were I work...isn't it great being a geek, eh?

I should point out of course that this was all carried out with fully licensed copies of the relevant software required and the copyright holders' permisions...

I'll get my coat...

Seriously, though, E-Smith is well up to the job of streaming stuff like this if you throw the memory/disk/bandwidth at it...

(I'm a regular poster on here, but best stay anonymous for this one, eh?)

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