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Centova Cast
v2.1.2 
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Ices :: Centova Cast Edition Ices - Centova Cast Edition (ices-cc) is a slightly modified version of the official ices 0.4 streaming source application maintained by Brendan Cully. We've taken the latest CVS snapshot, packaged it up, renamed it to avoid confusion with the official release, and made it easily installable on a number of Linux-based operating systems. Note that you do not need to be a Centova Cast licensee to use this build of ices -- it is freely available for anyone to use under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Download We offer ices-cc for download both as a source tarball and in a number of binary formats.
Note that all binary packages are for x86 architectures; others will need to build from source. RPM (.rpm) packages can be installed using: rpm -Uvh ices-cc-x.x.x-x.xxx.i386.rpm Debian (.deb) packages can be installed using: dpkg -i ices-cc_x.x.x-x_i386.deb The auto-install shell script can be used to automatically download and build ices-cc and all of its prerequisites from source with a single command. Feature Comparison We are often asked why we recommend ices-cc over sc_trans and other streaming source applications. The following chart compares the features in similar source software:
ices-cc is the only streaming source that supports both ShoutCast and IceCast servers while featuring dynamic playlist support -- a critical feature for Centova Cast 2.0. New Functionality The magic in ices-cc is in its new shell-script playlist capability (from ices 0.4-CVS), upon which Centova Cast 2.0 relies for a number of its impressive new dynamic playlist scheduling features. Users of Centova Cast will find that this build of ices enables a variety of new features in Centova Cast that are unavailable with other source applications. We've also made one minor addition of our own to ices-cc -- we've added support for Unicode ID3 tags, which resolves the long-standing problem ices users have encountered wherein "garbage" appears in the stream metadata. License ices-cc is released under the GNU General Public License. The full license terms are included in the file named COPYING included with the software. Technical Support / Credits Please note that Centova Technologies Inc. distributes this edition of ices as a convenience to its clients only. ices is neither owned nor maintained by Centova Technologies, and thus we are regrettably unable to provide any technical support or assistance with regard to its installation or use, nor are we able to extend any kind of warranties or guarantees with regard to ices or ices-cc. ices-cc is little more than a renamed and conveniently-packaged version of ices 0.4-CVS, and we take no credit for the great deal of hard work that has been put into it. ices is the product of a number of developers including Alexander Havang, Chad Armstrong, Mark Taylor, Erik Greenwald, and Brendan Cully, each of whom are copyright owners for their respective code contributions. ices is currently maintained by Brendan Cully. ices Official Release The official release of ices0 is available from: ices0 home page: http://icecast.org/ices.php ices0 CVS web interface: http://svn.xiph.org/icecast/trunk/ices0/ ices0 mailing list: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/ ices-cc is based on an ices 0.4 CVS snapshot from 2007-04-08 (which, at the time of this writing, is equivalent to the current ices CVS head). |