Hi All, As some of you may know, Oddcast, is a Winamp 2/3/5 DSP plug-in which allows one to stream mp3 vorbis and Windows Media audio. In a couple of respects it is comparable to the shoutcast DSP with which many of you will be familiar. However, the addition of support for WMA and Vorbis streaming set it apart from Shoutcast. Further more, unlike the SAM encoders from Spatial Audio Oddcast is completely free to use as much as you want on as many machines as you want.
The adoption of Oddcast has been rather slow amongst the streaming blind community owing to it's interface which is largely graphical and had very little keyboard support. However, the plug-in was still usable and has produced some marvellous results for those of us who have persevered. The following was recently posted to a mailing list by the author of Oddcast. I would urge anyone interested in streaming audio to take up the author's invitation and provide feedback regarding the following. Moreover, Remember, he's a programmer doing this in his spare time, with almost no clue about all the screen readers out there. So messages in the form of (It doesn't work for me, I'm using JFW 4.5) won't be very helpful. The other thing to keep in mind is that this guy has gone out of his way for us and I feel it is a good idea that when someone does something like this for the community that we at least attempt to show our appreciation by providing some useful and constructive feedback. Please forward where appropriate. ---Oddsock writes: I released a blind-friendly version of oddcast a long time ago, but haven't really had any feedback (actually zero feedback) from anyone whose actually tried to use it...I recoded the main UI to use common windows controls in the hope that it would then become more blind-accessible... your feedback is most welcome.. http://www.oddsock.org/tools/oddcastv2_wa2_bf/ Geoff Shang has agreed to collect and collate the feedback. You can write to Geoff at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
