[icecast] Tweaking Questions.

[Kevin Searle]

On Wednesday 16 May 2001 14:34, you wrote:
> 1- What MIME type and extentsion do we need to
> open a player through Apache, currently what happens
> is that it attempts to download the entire folder
> containing the mp3's instead of opening up the
> player (this happens at http://www.xxx.com:8000).

Instead of having link to http://www.xxx.com:8000, you need to have a link to 
a file on the webserver such as: http://www.xxx.com/playlist.m3u

In the playlist.m3u file, place the text http://www.xxx.com:8000

> 2- How can you create a playlist? Currently it
> just plays the mp3's and we'd like for promos to
> be heard before they pick up the broadcast.

Create a file on the icecast/ices server - call it anything like playlist.txt 
or something.  In the command-line for ices, use the -F switch to specifiy 
the location relative to where the command is excuted. Alternatively, this 
can also be specified in the ices configuration file. Look for the element 
<ices:File></ices:File>. Rewrite it as <ices:File>playlist.txt</ices:File>.

Hope this helps.

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