Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hi all,
Am hoping someone can help me with this, as am unable to find anything on the subject.
This is what I want to do.
I want to load a selection of songs in WinAMP [on my pc] and then using Icecast, stream it through my website itself so that regardless of when someone tunes in, they are all listening to the same song etc.
Is this possible or do I have to rely on streaming companies? My hosting company hasnt got a problem with streaming however they dont provide support for it. So I have to figure it out myself

On a side issue, anyway of embedding WinAMP into the website itself?

thanks

[karlH]

You can setup icecast to run on your website easily enough, then it's just a matter of providing information on you web site to listen to the streams. Not sure about embedding a player like winamp, you could use a java based player for vorbis for instance or just provide a link which will kick off a player.

karl.

[Anonymous]

I wrote some scripts in ASP.Net to do on-demand streaming of specific songs (you could always use a playlist to do multiple, if you like).

Take a look at:

http://www.wmph.org/OnDemand/SinglesEvents.aspx

for a working example. This page enumerates a directory on the webserver, and streams them as requested.

If you want the code, look at the projects section of my site:

http://www.barnyardbbs.com

Hope this helps.

-Ben