[icecast] winamp shout

[Ryan Child]

i am using icecast v1.3.11

my friend streams music to my server with the shout plugin for winamp.  
there are a couple of problems.

1. icecast doesn't seem to recognize when a client disconnects.  i enabled the shoutcast and icecast directory servers, and they were both saying that i had around 400 listeners last night, when in fact i only had 8.  the only lines in the icecast configuration file that seem to have anything to do with managing client connections are set like this:

########################### Client Timeout ####################################
# (How to deal with clients when no encoder is connected)
# A negative value means keep them forever
# 0 (zero) means kick them out instantly
# X > 0 means keep them X seconds
###########################

client_timeout 0

######################### Kicking clients #####################################
# If set to 1, then clients whose source has disconnected will
# be kicked. If set to 0, they will simply be moved to another
# stream. This only has an effect if client_timeout is <= 0.
#########################

kick_clients 1

has anybody else had this problem, or know how to fix it?

2. this shoutcast streamer seems to send the meta data and actual audio stream to random mountpoints.  usually it's icy_0/icy_1, but sometimes icecast will refuse the encoder saying "invalid mountpoint".  there don't seem to be any obvious configuration options on this streamer.  my meta data options are set like this:

########################## Stream Meta Data ##################################### This is a experimental feature, at best.
# When it does not work, it will put the whole stream out of synk on the client
# side, and you will get a big mess.
# use_meta_data controls whether this icecast server will use title streaming at#               all. It's turned off by default, cause it creates chirps in the
#               stream if you're not careful.
# streamtitletemplate is a the template for creating the title that gets sent to#                     the client and the directory server. %s will be
#                     substituted for the actual filename.
# streamurl is the default url for each stream.
# nametemplate is a template for the name of each stream.
# desctemplate is a template for the description of each stream.
##########################
use_meta_data 1
streamurllock 0
streamtitletemplate %s
streamurl http://radio.celloboy.net
nametemplate %s
desctemplate %s

i used to have use_meta_data set to 0, but i set it to 1 hoping it would clean this up a bit.  does anybody know what's going on?

thanks for your help,
ryan

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