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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 03 October 2010 19:10:13 Dale wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> Yes, google shows and plays shoutcast/icecast music via the browser.  It is
> just that I used to do that directly from within vlc.  But now both vlc and
> amarok dropped it due to AOL.  :-(
>    

I was talking about google as a search tool.  I found this on Google:

http://dir.xiph.org/index.php

Genre is on the left but it is a short list.  No idea what you are 
looking for tho.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)