Music player for mp3, ogg, wav, audiocd, mp3 streaming, ogg streaming and able to use the appropriate sound drivers, demons, to stream directly to an icecast server (icecast2 or shoutcast) or to encode in ogg/vorbis. soma player is even a sound daemon (sds-soma daemon sound), able to accept connections from more somaplayers at the same time, or at any other sound player (xmms, mpg123 and others), thanks to a special wrapper. all those sources are added and managed via driver or daemon, streammed or encoded as above.

these are the features of somaplayer:
* openssl
* mad
* id3tag,
* vorbis,
* cdaudio,
* ao (output audio dsp support),
* daemon output sds (soma daemon sound support),
* streaming (output streaming support),
* icecast (output icecast support),
* icecast2 (output icecast2),
* shoutcast (output shoutcast support),
* ipv6.
it is very useful to build up and manage internet radio stations and can be used in combination with the soma daemon.