Re: [gentoo-user] vlc-1.1.4 won't shoutcast?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 03 October 2010 17:29:45 Dale wrote:
>    
>> Mick wrote:
>>      
>>> On Sunday 03 October 2010 15:41:43 Vincent-Xavier JUMEL wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Le 03 octobre à 14:05 Mick a écrit
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> It doesn't show up in the menu anymore.  The previous version was
>>>>> working fine.  Am I missing some crafty USE flag?
>>>>>            
>>>> If you're using vlc 1.1.0 or above, you should have read
>>>> http://www.videolan.org/press/2010-1.html which informs about the
>>>> situation and why the VLC team had had to removed it.
>>>>          
>>> Thanks, I can see why now.  The page mentions icecast as an alternative
>>> and the fact that this is available as an Addon for vlc, but can't find
>>> anywhere how to add it on ...
>>>        
>> I know nothing about vlc or icecast but I did google and find this.
>>
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/VLC/StreamingIcecast
>>
>> It may help, it may not.  Let's hope.  ;-)
>>      
> Thanks Dale, very kind of you to look into this for me.  I actually want to
> stream from (listen to internet radio), not stream to a server.
>
> Previous versions of vlc had a Service Discovery option which would tune in to
> shoutcast/icecast servers to list and listen to their streams.  This has now
> been removed.  A really good feature was that you could search for music of
> your liking by genre and different servers would show up to allow you to
> connect and listen.
>    

While diggin, I saw a list of servers and I think they were by genre.  
Just go to google and type in icecast server and see what pops up.  
Also, watch what google suggests as you type to.  It may show a option 
we aren't thinking about.  May be just what you need.

Dale

:-)  :-)