Putting It All Together: Streaming Music to Your Private Network
You can use a multimedia player like XMMS to connect to and listen to an audio stream. The steps in this section describe how to do that:Start XMMS and select the Play Location option by right-clicking anywhere on the XMMS window or pressing the Ctrl-L keystroke combination.
Enter the URL of your Icecast2 server. In this case, it’s
http://127.0.0.1:8000/track1.ogg.
That’s it! You hear whatever music you ripped from your music CD.You have little to gain by using Icecast2 to serve up music streams locally on your PC. Using the CD player described in Chapter 11 is much easier. However, listening to your multimedia streaming server is useful and interesting when it’s done across a network.