====== How to FLAC stream ======
===== introduction =====
FLAC streaming is embeded as **audio/ogg** or **application/ogg**

===== The limitation of metadata =====
In **ogg** streaming protocol metadatas are embeded in the audio packets.and ogg protocol has a known "bug" after each metadata change it sends EOF(end of file), and start a new ogg file, which causes some (most) clients to stop listening..

Affected clients are:
  * firefox
  * chrome (maj:Chromium Version 117.0.5938.149 can read without cut)
  * mpd
  * ..

[[https://mpv.io/|MPV]] and [[https://www.videolan.org/vlc/|VLC]] can play continuously  but __do not update the metadatas__...

the only workaround available client-side at the moment is to use [[https://github.com/eshaz/icecast-metadata-js|Icecast Metadata JS]]
===== Software encoder =====
software that support FLAC streaming
==== with metadatas ====
=== Liquidsoad ===
requires libflac 
=== B.U.T.T. ===
BUTT 
[[https://danielnoethen.de/butt/howtos/run_without_X.html|How to run butt on Linux without X-Server]]


====  without metadatas ====
=== FFMPEG ===