Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Where can I find the documentation explaining the actual connecting, stream decoding and disconnecting from an Icecast server. Like I wanted to write my own client or include Icecast client capability in another app.
The only docs I can find are for setup and operation of the server.

Thank you,
999alfred

[MikeS]

The protocol is simply HTTP - that's it. So, you should refer to the HTTP RFC for details on the network protocol.

As for decoding the data, that depends on the actual data format of the stream. Assuming you're streaming Ogg Vorbis (as we strongly recommend), the format's fully documented at http://xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/

Mike