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November 7, 2004

Icecast 2.1.0 Released

I'm enjoying the Bills game right now (thank the scheduling gods) and while surfing I just found word of a new Icecast release on their site. What interests me most is the "listener authentication" feature, which I've wanted for ICYG since I launched it. Other new features include "multi-level fallback" (which I assume is server-based stream substitution, as opposed to pointing several streaming clients at the same Icecast mountpoint and letting them butt heads) and "burst-on-connect". Can't wait to check it out. Thanks to the Icecast team for their continuing development.

Posted by Alex Harden on November 7, 2004 2:28 PM |

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I am curious how the authentication will work. I agree that with the project you are running with ICYG, authentication is a very good idea.

Posted by: Scotbuff | November 7, 2004 5:45 PM

The documentation says it's standard HTTP authentication and that Winamp, Foobar2000 and XMMS should support it. I assume that it'll just require username:password@icyg.kicks-ass.org:port/stream_name. Once I have it tested I'll fully document the requirement.

Posted by: aharden | November 7, 2004 8:27 PM

HTTP authentication works as advertised (and in line with my assumption). I tested it with Winamp and FB2K. I'll put out a call for passwords on the official ICYG forum.

Posted by: aharden | November 8, 2004 7:54 PM

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