Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

I spent lots of time but still there.

There is a standard server’s setup: HTTP server | Firewall | Application server.

We need to serve mp3 files on-demand the same way using Icecast:
Icecast | Firewall | Fileserver with mp3. The mp3 files will be saved behind firewall.

How can I configure Icecast to play the mp3 files located on another server on-demand?

Thanks for your help.

[Anonymous]

tried
Icecast Slave|Firewall|Icecast Master
Icecast|Firewall|Ices

but all of those work with mounted live streams. How make it on demand? Is it possible?

probably
IIS|Firewall|Icecast, but how to redirect request from IIS to Icecast without opening Icecast behind firewall to Internet?

[Anonymous]

Icecast really works well when you're streaming live content. Although Icecast can serve files via HTTP; that's more of a download than a stream.

I've written my own On Demand streaming stuff; that works via the webserver rather than Icecast. I've got versions for both ASP.Net (my primary) and PHP. I've got a page describing them (and source) located at:

http://www.barnyardbbs.com/Projects/Streaming/

You can also see a production version of the same concept running at:

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

Hope this helps.

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much. You opened a whole new area to research. It is too simple to be true  but looks really attractive.
I’ll test it and see if can use it.

What I like about Icecast – it is proved working product with good stats and administration tools, but if Icecast cannot help me here I definitely will look into your approach.

[Anonymous]

Don't get me wrong; I wasn't criticizing Icecast in any way. In fact, I use Icecast as the primary streaming product for our radio station. It's just not built to serve On Demand; so I made the scripts to fill the gap.

[karlH]

A big problem for providing on-demand handling is timing of the content, we could add that for ogg codecs but many would ask the same thing for other codecs which would be much harder to do.

karl.

[Anonymous]

I understand, but not fully support the logic: I think better something then nothing. Do not get me wrong- that is just idea.

My task is very standard for companies with some audio/video content to give out to theirs customers/employees. Your product might be very useful especially for cheap companies with a pool of programmers with no audio background, like in my case.