Hi,
I've been using internet-radio.com for about 6months because Live365
and our mobile app didn't mix very well. I don't have any long term
experience with them but our stream appears to work fine. Playback is
within a second or two vs Live365 which seemed to buffer for up to 30 in
most things.
They let you login to a web front end that backs on to icecast which is
a bit weird but fairly straight forward if you're familiar with Icecast.
They also take meta data direct from the Icecast server so you don't
have to do anything special with web API's.
As a complete curve ball, I also use digitalocean.com for unrelated
tasks however they start at 1TB transfer per month and you get full
shell access so you can install anything you like. Obviously that means
maintaining a server which you might not be up to.
However, the real problem with Live 365 going away is not the
streaming. You now need your own agreement with whatever licensing
authorities you have to comply with. In the UK this is not cheap at
all.
Regards,
Wayne
On 2016-01-28 14:50, Cowboy wrote:
On 01/28/2016 09:36 AM, Harris, Don wrote:
We have been using Live365 as our streaming provider and just
learned yesterday
that they are closing down on the 31^st of Jan. My question or poll
is what
other services people are using and ones I should avoid.
The thing about Live365 has to do with the CRAP Act.
Congress abdicating to lawyers who pay themselves out of "pay to
play"
streaming "royalty" fees. Live365 can no longer afford to do what
they do.
Mission Accomplished !! The CRAP Act, at the urging of the RIAA is
effectively
killing the competition ( streaming ) in legal but highly unethical
ways.
Lawyers and $$$$$ !
Whod-a-thunk it ?
I've got a client or two with SecureNetSystems. ( use my name !!! )
BUT, they absolutely do require a M$ Windows machine for their
proprietary
M$ Windows Only encoder.
They do NOTHING as far as DMARC or CRAP Act reporting requirements.
That will ALL be on you ! ( but they do have a partner arrangement
with a group
who does at least some, and possibly all, of it )
_______________________________________________
Rivendell-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
