Editing Icecast (section)

==History==
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Icecast was originally developed by Moffitt in 1998 for [[Southern Methodist University|SMU]]'s radio station. At the time, the station was constantly losing its FCC license{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} and was at the time only able to reach listeners in the same building. Given that all of the dorms throughout campus had Ethernet connectivity, using streaming audio to broadcast was a natural solution, but currently available audio streaming software, such as RealAudio, was too expensive. Moffitt created Icecast, allowing the station to easily reach everywhere on campus without the necessity of FCC licensing or a transmitter upgrade. Initially developed to support [[MP3|mp3]] files, [[Vorbis]] support was added shortly after.