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illusionist@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CyberpunkLibrarian@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are tonnes of Icecast stations out there, and I occasionally stream on my own. The great thing about it is that Icecast streams are highly portable so you can embed them into websites (which is what I do), or throw them into apps, or stream them through VLC, or whatever. Some sites will have some kind of chat or whatever, but the best thing is that you can kinda do whatever you want once you get an Icecast player working on a website or in an app.

  For a while there was a glorious thing called Radio Free Fedi but, sadly, it shut down. Such a cool concept too!

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  • illusionist@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s cool

    You can discover streams here dir.xiph.org

    E.g. manager7.streamradio.fr:1250/stream and put it into vlc and it can play it directly

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    • okcomputer@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is there a way to search xiph? The menu doesn’t seem to work on my phone. Is there a mobile app that can search/play these stations?

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    • CyberpunkLibrarian@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Absolutely! VLC can stream it as well as a bunch of other software. I think the default audio players on most of the big Linux distros will play Icecast streams. My daily driver is macOS and I use an app called Broadcasts that does nothing but play music from audio feeds. Most of them are Icecast stations.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I miss Shoutcast.

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used to run a liscensed internet radio station in the pre-Napster era, using Shoutcast CDN servers provided by IM Radio Networks (now defunct). We featured Indie bands from MP3.com (now defunct). BandCamp, iirc, had just started it’s operation.

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  • CyberpunkLibrarian@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shoutcast is still around, but it’s proprietary and costs money. It’s still a viable alternative to Icecast but I think you’ll find more Icecast based services around simply because of the price. That, and Icecast has been around for a long time, so it’s kind of a known system. But yeah, tens of thousands of audio and video feeds still run on Shoutcast. They even have a directory to help you find them.

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