Re: open source friendly streaming audio

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:

> > What I'm asking here is, what open source friendly streaming audio
> > protocols are the best one's out there and why?  I would like to
> > give this guy an intelligent answer.  
> >
> 
> A little judicious wikipedia reading suggests for truly free -- ogg
> over http using icecast. slightly less free but more supported on the
> client side would be mp3 over http with icecast. check here

Some radio stations in Romania provide both, with ogg usually having
slightly smaller bit rate (ex. 96 kb/s vs. 128 kb/s). This way
intelligent listeners can save some bandwidth and still have the same
audio quality.

Regards,
Andrei
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