Web audio stream

What's a good solution for web audio streaming?

I've read about Flash Media Server, but that's a little too expensive right now, it seems easier than other solutions but can't afford it.

There is FFmpeg, FFserver, Icecast and SSH among the popular.

What I want is an easy solution for the user, which I was thinking something with flash. Load up FFmpeg/FFserver or Icecast as server stream and read that stream with a flash player inside the webpage. (I don't want to force users to download VLC or 开发者_如何转开发winamp)

I'm not sure if I'm going the right way.

Red5 is probably what you want: http://www.red5.org/

Wowza is an alternative option: http://www.wowza.com/