Re: [PLUG] Streaming Audio for linux?

[tom panzarella <tpanzarella@acm.org>]

Mental wrote:

> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:05:56AM -0400, drexel wrote:

> Theres a buch of stuff in a bunch of languages out there. I think
> someone's working on a mod_mp3 for apache also, but its variable bitrate
> stuff needs a little polish.

Lincoln Stein wrote a module call Apache::MP3 which works pretty nice 
for streaming mp3 files over HTTP (requires mod_perl).

But as far as other audio streamers on Linux:

Icecast (as Mental mentioned) is very nice - http://www.icecast.org
Shoutcast (binary only) - http://www.shoutcast.com
Fluid (open source Java) - http://fluid.sourceforge.net
Darwin - http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/qtss.html
Real - http://www.realnetworks.com (I know real has a Linux port of 
their streaming server.  You can download the basic server for free 
which will give you some limited number of concurrent licenses).

Also, I know that Lucent/Bell Labs has a free open source streaming 
server that works on Linux and handles RTSP streams (sorry no URI for 
that one handy).

If your looking into selling your music on-line securely, check out 
http://www.liquidaudio.com.  I don't know too much about this (if there 
is even a Linux port of the server) but I know it is designed from the 
ground up to handle selling music securely on-line.  There are a few 
caveats, one major one being that it uses (or at least used to) a 
proprietary audio codec which requires the "Liquid Player" to listen to 
the audio.  It is also expensive (I think).

--t.


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