can you specify a start time with shoutcast?
can you specify a start time with shoutcast?
hello,
i was wondering if there's any way (perhaps via the magic of .pls or .m3u) to specify a start time for on-demand streaming.
for instance, lets say i have a 1 hour mp3 and I want to make a link that will start playing the mp3 20 minutes into the file. anyway to do that?
ram files allow you to specify start times with rm files.... i'm looking for similar functionality.
any help greatly appreciated...
thanks,
p
i was wondering if there's any way (perhaps via the magic of .pls or .m3u) to specify a start time for on-demand streaming.
for instance, lets say i have a 1 hour mp3 and I want to make a link that will start playing the mp3 20 minutes into the file. anyway to do that?
ram files allow you to specify start times with rm files.... i'm looking for similar functionality.
any help greatly appreciated...
thanks,
p
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hmm, well once I get frame reading finished you will be able to do this with Mp3 ToolBox (works in Windows Already) but if you have some sort of attachment to the shoutcast server then no, shoutcast is just a dumb server (technically speaking) it just waits for requests and responds, there is no decoding of the mp3 at the server so there is no way to do something like that. There is also no support for this in the pls files and I am pretty sure there is nothing like this in M3U.
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I thought this thread adressed a subject I've been wondering for some time: is it possible to switch from inputs in the Shoutcast? What I want to do is automatically switch from Line input to a winamp list at given hours. For example, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM my Shoutcast will use the line input and from 3:00 to 3:30 it will switch to a determined playlist, then from 3:30 to 4:00 again to line input. Is that a possibility or just my fantasy?