Icecast

Mm-hmm.

Tell me about that exper- Why you adopted this HLS over Icecast or Shoutcast.

So, might have been 10-plus years ago.

Yeah.

Um, you know, as our streaming numbers were starting to really pick up, we had a lot of people complaining, you know, emailing us and saying, "Hey, I can't stream your Icecast stream.

Our corporate company firewall is blocking the stream." And-

Yeah.

So you, you bring out this huge point.

so something has to split the audio of the RTSP stream.

He's leaning go towards consuming the RTSP and feeding both Frigate and Icecast, but he knows Frigate restreams on its own, so he wants to know if it can produce an audio-only restream instead.

Then a detection layer for crying.

Then Home Assistant firing the notifications.

His first architecture wins.

And not by a small margin, because the config lives in the same place either way, but standalone GoToArtC gives you an HTTP API you can pull from, and Frigate's embedded one is oriented toward Frigate's needs.

If Icecast is a consumer you care about, you want the thing with the documented outputs.

Which brings the fanout into view.

What mechanism will you be able to listen to it live from? I don't know.

The mechanisms we've used historically are not presently available to us, but also I don't know that anybody knows how to use fucking IceCast in the year of our Lord 2026.

So, like, that may not really matter.

Um, could do it in the Discord, technically speaking.

This is the live environmental feed.

So the sounds that you're hearing now, they're about between 8 and 30 seconds delayed from the time it takes for the sound to happen at the site to then be transmitted to an Icecast server in Aix-Marseille in the department of Locus Sonus, who's at the University of Aix.

And then I'm downloading this on my laptop, and then it's coming out through Voices Radio, and then there'll be a bit of delay.

So these sounds are actually the sounds of a glacier melting in the Otter-Ende-Welt-Weltner, or the End of the World Glacier.

Then on New

Year's Eve, was it 99, 98, they launched Shoutcast, and then very shortly after came Icecast.

Then there was also Streamworks.

That was another player that they had.