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Interesting, thanks. So, I'm not crazy to think that using HLS for audio might be worthwhile. I wonder if iHeart does it for robustness over mobile connections,
by mwcampbell 7y ago
Interesting, thanks. So, I'm not crazy to think that using HLS for audio might be worthwhile. I wonder if iHeart does it for robustness over mobile connections, or just browser compatibility (particularly with iOS Safari).
That secure Shoutcast stream is an interesting mix of old and new. It has the expected "icy-" HTTP headers, but it's using HTTP/2 and, of course, HTTPS. The fact that it even returns a valid response for an HTTP HEAD request puts it ahead of real Shoutcast and Icecast streams in terms of standards compliance. It looks like iHeart has their own streaming server.