Sunday 27 February 2011

Streaming audio to iPhone

Spent a bit of time trying to find an easy way to stream audio (in my case the "stereo mix"/"what you hear" of my onboard sound) to iPhone, and found it surprisingly unstraightforward.

Long story short, got a solution working with the following components:

  • Icecast2
  • edcast (used to be called oddcast)
  • nscrt.dll and enc_aaplus.dll copied from WinAmp installation into edcast installation for HE-AAC support
  • FStream iPhone App (although the streams can be played directly in Safari on iPhone)
I have edcast pumping four different streams - mono and stereo at various bitrates, to give me options depending on listening and network conditions.

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