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To: Stang who wrote (3195)	5/14/1999 8:11:00 AM
From: James Fulop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

Thanks for the link. I'm no expert in this, but usage of Real Audio in this way is really interesting... lots of variations... could this also be used as a dial-in service to hear the message from a telephone when you don't have access to the net? (Or is that already available? Wouldn't be surprised.)

To: Stang who wrote (3195)	7/13/1999 9:50:00 PM
From: Stang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

New Competition? Don't shoot the messenger... ------------------------------------------------- Icecast 1.3 Released Jul 13th, 19:44:43 The Icecast development team has today released Icecast 1.3, the next-generation audio streaming server. The team is pleased to present this release to the Open Source community under the GPL license, as it has done in the past. The new release is fully platform independent and will run immediately on Linux, Solaris, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, and FreeBSD. It is expected to appear on even more platforms shortly after release. b>Press Contact: Jack Moffitt Project Leader (415) 642-1485 team@icecast.org Icecast version 1.3 introduces many new features to the audio streaming community. One of the most asked-for features is the ability to support multiple streams from a single server. This feature is unique among MP3 streaming servers. Icecast 1.3 also includes unprecedented administration tools for complete control of the Icecast environment. Without restarting the server, an administrator can change data, set up access privileges, control routing of mount points, create aliases, proxies, and relays, save outgoing shows for archival purposes, and easily track listener statistics. Icecast 1.3 also introduces meta-data streaming, an emerging standard developed in cooperation with the makers of the Sonique, K-Jofol, FreeAmp, MacAmp and XMMS MP3 players. Meta-data streaming is a new, robust method for displaying information about a stream without corrupting or interfering with the actual music data. Current track information, links to web pages, and e-commerce information can be sent directly to the players from the server. This extensible data channel will soon be supported by most MP3 players. Along with new functionality, Icecast 1.3 offers rock-solid performance that is non-intensive on server resources. Icecast 1.3 can support thousands of simultaneous connections with very little memory usage, and for the heaviest loads multiple Icecast servers can be linked to form a larger network. This scalability is required by the large online broadcasters. "We are very excited about the release of Icecast 1.3.," said Peter Rothman, CTO for Nanocosm, Inc. (creators of Live365.com) "Live365.com supports open source initiatives as part of our service package and we utilize open source products whenever we can". The MP3 software community has embraced Icecast and is working to fully support the new features in Icecast 1.3. Andrew McCann, co-founder of MediaScience, creator of Sonique, has positive words for Icecast. "The Icecast team has been great to work with as we help improve the listener's experience with audio streaming. We have had difficulty working with other closed audio streaming systems, but Icecast provides an open, innovative system that works for us as well as the entire community of listeners". Gilles Boccon-Gibod, Vice President of MpegTV, has also pledged support. "To enable Xaudio's customers to take full advantage of the new useful additions to the Icecast server software, we will provide built-in support for the Icecast 1.3 protocol in an upcoming release of the new MP3 SDK". Icecast is created by an international team of developers, testers, and users. The core Icecast team works together to implement features requested by the community into a quality open source product. One of the Icecast project's benefactors has been the Green Witch Internet Radio, which has partially financed development on the Icecast project. Programmer Barath Raghavan, a core project member, has recently joined Jack Moffitt at The Green Witch Internet Radio. Barath says, "We're lucky to have found such a fertile working environment, where we are appreciatively paid to develop open source software which anyone can use, for the benefit of the entire online music industry". Other companies who contribute time and resources to the project include MediaScience, GameSpy Industries, and Wired Planet. Icecast is available for download and is free of charge for all users. For more information about Icecast Open Source Technology for Streaming Audio, please visit icecast.org. For more information about The Green Witch Internet Radio, please visit greenwitch.com. ------------------------------------------------------- From: linuxpr.com Stang