[icecast] Unable to get shoutcast sources to work

[Michael Smith]

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 01:04, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have some people who want to be able to broadcast using a shoutcast DSP
> plugin with MP3, to an icecast2 server.  But we can't get it to work.
> Since I can't be bothered booting one of our boxes into windows to try the
> shoutcast DSP itself, I decided to use darkice in shoutcast mode.  I know
> this works with shoutcast servers.

Might work, but this is untested - the shoutcast "protocol" is very poorly 
defined and different things mis-implement it in different ways.

<p>> [2003-03-24  13:45:36] INFO connection/_handle_source_request Source
> logging in
> at mountpoint "/"
> [2003-03-24  13:45:36] EROR connection/connection_create_source No
> content-type
> header, falling back to backwards compatibility mode for icecast 1.x
> relays. Assuming content is mp3.
> [2003-03-24  13:45:36] DBUG source/source_main Source creation complete
> [2003-03-24  13:45:37] DBUG source/source_main Disconnecting source due to
> socket read error: Success

That shouldn't be possible, unless... I think it might be possible if the 
source never sends any data at all (just the headers)?

>
> DarkIce: LameLibEncoder.cpp:75: lame lib opening underlying sink error [0]
>
> which is the error that comes up when it can't connect to the server.

Maybe darkice requires a slightly different protocol? icecast in 
shoutcast-compatibility mode stays as close to valid HTTP as possible while 
being compatible with shoutcast sources - maybe darkice is expecting a 
shoutcast-style response or something?

Mike

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