Re: [PLUG] Open Source Whole House Audio Streaming Alternatives to Sonos, Chromecast

[brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

On 09/27/2017 09:38 AM, Will wrote:
> Shoutcast is the closest I found to work. It was a plugin for winamp and
> I think its still available. Regardless there are internet radio FOSS
> solutions. I've covered and entire college campus with my music that way. 
> 
> The other option is to transmit via FM or 900MHz band. It works so well
> and the quality is quite good for the 900MHz transmitters. The more
> analog approach will guarentee there will not be any lag issues either. 
> 
> 
> -Will
> 

shoutcast[0] is actually just a proprietary implementation of icecast[1]
- or rather, the icecast protocol[2]. you can even stream (or listen) to
icecast with vlc[3].


[0] https://www.shoutcast.com/
[1] http://icecast.org/docs/
[2] https://gist.github.com/ePirat/adc3b8ba00d85b7e3870
[3] http://write.flossmanuals.net/vlc/streaming-to-icecast/

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