[icecast] WinAmp3 & Icecast2 compatibility?

Michael Smith msmith at xiph.org
Tue Nov 19 02:03:17 UTC 2002



At 07:34 PM 18/11/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello folks
>
>I'm having trouble playing ogg streams with WinAmp3. I run Icecast2 & Ices2
>(both compiled from CVS about two weeks ago) on a Linux box, the files
>being streamed were encoded with oggenc (from oggutils1.0, managed
>80kbitrate...) The problem is that WinAmp3 won't actually play the .ogg
>stream. When I give it the URL (http://myserver:8000/mount.ogg) it says
>"connecting" then "prebuffering done" and finally it'll display the
>mountpoint filename plus the correct bitrate info -- but no audio! WinAmp3
>plays the same ogg files fine from a local hard drive.
>

Winamp3 is really buggy, it apparently doesn't play streams correctly.
I don't know if anyone has reported this bug to the winamp people, though.
You can use winamp 2.8, anyway - it's much nicer to use, AND works better.

Michael

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