William Morder wrote:

> If anybody knows of a better service for streaming music, that would also
> be a great help; at present, cost is a factor, and until we get more
> listeners to justify spending more money, we seem to be stuck with
> Voscast. At present, it costs about $17 a month for 64 kbps, which is the
> lowest quality stream that plays in stereo. I would like to bump it up at
> least to 128 kbps, maybe even 192 or more, as I see other streams out
> there now that are much higher quality. But all in good time; that will
> cost a lot more.

Hi,
I think it is pretty good quality for my self made PC boxes out of recycled
pc loud speakers, so keep it just the way it is and spend money on
advertisements, that will give you more hits and higher download rates. 

And what you have now is working pretty well, so why changing something? 
I recall playing with icecast many moons ago. Good stuff, good choice!

Regarding converting I use ffmpeg. You can put a script together to convert
all you have to 64 into a new directory - it makes no sense to burn
CPU/power each time you play something.


thumbs up & regards