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CyberpunkLibrarian@lemmy.ml 1 day agoThere 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!
illusionist@lemmy.zip 1 day 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
okcomputer@piefed.world 1 day 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?
CyberpunkLibrarian@lemmy.ml 1 day 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.