[icecast] lots of icecast help needed

[Kelly Lee Myers]

It has long been known that the nullsoft method of streaming metadata is a
hack. I like the Icecast approach much better but still I think that it can
be much improved.
When in doubt turn it off.

Two machines?? Have you tried the win32 source lately...?

Just a thought.

Lithium
----- Original Message -----
From: "dj66" <route66 at machineandsoul.com>
To: <icecast at xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [icecast] lots of icecast help needed

> > >First, my server isn't being posted to yp.icecast.org or
> yp.shoutcast.com.
> > >Error results:
> > >WARNING: Connect to yp.icecast.org failed
> > >directory_add([yp.shoutcast.com:80]) failed, could not connect.  (retry
> in 0
> > >seconds)
> >
> > I can't say for sure what could be causing this, but I'm having problems
> > with yp.shoutcast.com myself.  I get:
>
> I found out what it was, and I'm quite embarrased that I've missed it for
so
> long.  I had set the hostname setting in icecast.conf to a local IP (my
> icecast server is also a router with two IPs), thinking that this would
only
> allow people from that local IP (and not on the outside) for attaching as
a
> source.  (That's what the beginning of the hostname description says), but
> apparantly you need this hostname in order for yp to reply to you.  Doh.
>
> > >Right now I am using Ices, with metadata on.  (I can see the song
titles
> > >streamed in WinAmp and in the web interface).
> > How is that working for you?  I'm using winamp and the shoutdsp on a
> > windows box to source my streams to shoutcast and icecast, depending on
my
> > mood.  I've found that if I turn on metadata in icecast, the streams do
> > exactly as the warning says they "might" do.. which is totally garble,
> > screech, squeal, and loose sync.  It would be great if they could get
this
>
> I am not getting any of these problems.  I guess libshout is much nicer to
> icecast.
>
> I can see how WinAmp is nice, but then you would need two computers for
> streaming audio when it could be achieved with only one computer.
>
> > 1) Generate a simple template that will output a very small file I can
> > include via apache SSI that contains the currently playing song title,
the
> > stream bitrate, the number of users currently listening on that stream,
> and
> > the maximum number of users supported.  This was terribly simple to do
> with
> > shoutcast, and is proving to be a big hassle in icecast.
>
> You can get this information by parsing the stats.log, which is located in
> /usr/local/icecast/logs/stats.log
>
> Now, is there a way to see the last 10 songs played?
>
> > Good luck, and maybe we'll see some updates to icecast (and the website)
> > sometime this year. ;)
>
> I am so happy I found this list.. There's no where else to go, really.
>
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