Linux radio station

Hi!
How do I set up a radio station under Linux? I would prefer something that
I can just point and click to use, and looks sexy, like Jetaudio server in
Windows. It's only if there IS nothing like this that I'll look into
Icecast and the like - I *don't* want to hack, I'm more interested in just
having fun sending music to the whole world.

Thanks a lot for all your help!

Schewdent.

Schewdent wrote:

> Hi!
> How do I set up a radio station under Linux? I would prefer something that
> I can just point and click to use, and looks sexy, like Jetaudio server in
> Windows. It's only if there IS nothing like this that I'll look into
> Icecast and the like - I *don't* want to hack, I'm more interested in just
> having fun sending music to the whole world.
>
> Thanks a lot for all your help!
>
> Schewdent.
>

you're just looking for a simple streaming-server
try VideoLANServer

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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:43:37 +0200, Bernhard Kastner wrote:
>> How do I set up a radio station under Linux? I would prefer something
>> that I can just point and click to use, and looks sexy, like Jetaudio
>> server in Windows. It's only if there IS nothing like this that I'll
>> look into Icecast and the like - I *don't* want to hack, I'm more
>> interested in just having fun sending music to the whole world.
>
> you're just looking for a simple streaming-server try VideoLANServer

Hmm, what about intellectual property rights? Is this all your own
material that is to be streamed? If not, there might be some problems with
the people that own the copyrights, a la Napster lawsuits, etc.

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Juhan Leemet
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:43:37 +0200, Bernhard Kastner wrote:

> you're just looking for a simple streaming-server
> try VideoLANServer

Hi,
I know about this but I thought it was a video project, and I did download
it thinking maybe I'd use it for that, but I couldn't get it running for
some reason, but that should fix itself if I play with it for a little
while..... anyway, can anyone explain to me why any kind of particular
software would be necessary in the first place?
Is it not possible to just echo /dev/audio > /dev/eth0 or whatever?

That way I could have any number of apps open playing whatever I want
(xmms, xine, games of some sort, the audio from my TV card, etc. ) and
have it be streamed directly. Of course, in practice, it would have to be
piped through ligmpg123 or something of the sort, right? Like - cat
/dev/audio < mpg123encode > /dev/eth0 .

Would this work, and if not, why not (I have a fair understanding of how
things work in Linux, but I'm not an expert).

It's primarily that I thought it could do this, and not with too much
hassle that I want to use it, please don't disappoint me!.......?


Thanks for all your help again,



Schewdent.

> Is it not possible to just echo /dev/audio > /dev/eth0 or whatever?

The "eth" devices aren't actually devices, so you won't find them in
the /dev folder (have a look).

linux:/dev # ls eth*
/bin/ls: eth*: No such file or directory

> Would this work, and if not, why not (I have a fair understanding of how
> things work in Linux, but I'm not an expert).

If you've found a solution that works under Windows, why not use Windows?

"Schewdent" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> anyway, can anyone explain to me why any kind of particular
> software would be necessary in the first place?
> Is it not possible to just echo /dev/audio > /dev/eth0 or whatever?
>
> That way I could have any number of apps open playing whatever I want
> (xmms, xine, games of some sort, the audio from my TV card, etc. ) and
> have it be streamed directly. Of course, in practice, it would have to be
> piped through ligmpg123 or something of the sort, right? Like - cat
> /dev/audio < mpg123encode > /dev/eth0 .

> Would this work, and if not, why not (I have a fair understanding of how
> things work in Linux, but I'm not an expert).
>

Come on, you've to be kidding. Think about it and you'll know why it doesn't
work. There are numerous problems to reading from one device and piping it
to another like that:

1. How is the network card supposed to understand what mumbo-jumbo audio
data is supposed to mean? Does it mean to send something? Does it mean to
turn it into heat? Does it mean blow up the universe?
2. Where is this data going on the network?
3. How is it getting transmitted? What transport protocol is it using? TCP?
UDP? What protocol is it using to transfer the stream? RTP? HTTP?

It's like saying, "Instead of running a web server, why can't I just do `cat
page.html > /dev/eth0'?"

You need software designed to stream audio, or, at the very least,
software to send data over the network.


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