Ok heres what i got...i want up some streaming audio for my game clan and for people to listen to in my game servers. i know it can be done becuase you have siradio doing it, and sourcetunes doing it. i just want to upload some mp3s and tell it to play and shuffle the mp3s it cant be done through XOOPS becasue XOOPS doesn;t like showing up in the game web broswer does anyone know of a stand alone package to just play mp3's???

There are tons available.

Flash is fun though, so Link

Google "MP3 Music Script" will produce 1000's of good results.

flash doesn;t work in the game web browser....its hl2dm if it says anything.

Icecast isn't it?

icecast.org

As mentioned IceCast can do that and so can ShoutCast.

not sure of the options with Icecast.

http://www.icecast.org/

If you go with a Shoutcast option, you will need to also set up something called SC_Trans this allows you to automate the music process.

All Shoutcast can be found at:

http://shoutcast.com

You will need ssh access and permission on your server/host to run services.

Keep in mind though that what every rate you broadcast at is multiplied by the ammount of listeners for example:

128k x 10 listeners

Could end up costing you some dosh, now if your broadcasting you may also need a music licence, depending on the type of music ie royalties or royalty free.

There are some companies like Live365 that offer shoutcast subscriptions (the music streams via their servers, so you don't need your own) that include a music licence, so you don't need to worry about the legalities.

Such companies may allow upload of your music and play them for you automatically so you don't need to worry about have Ice or SC running anywhere.

You could also consider Flash, something like Tufat flash player, it's pretty cool.

http://tufat.com/s_flash_mp3_player_mp3_component.htm

(Flash could be run in the background via a browser?)

Hope this is of some help.

flash doesn;t work int he in game broswer, it shows up but as a still image for some reason i think its because of lack of abilities.

My take on this ... you still need some kind of method to broadcast. I'm a huge fan of IceCast as a server ... much moreso than Shoutcast.

To broadcast, you'll need something like EdCast on oddsock.org. I prefer Spacial Audio's SAM4 ... but that might be outside your budget.

Now, to integrate that with your site or whatnot, I've got the UHQ-Radio-Basic module, which is enough to give you what's playing, a tune-in link, and a way to extract a show name if you have one. :)