[Icecast] Re: Serving a playlist.pls / listen.m3u file

[Jason]

Normally you don't put an extention in a mountpoint  it would be /flatfour 
and  /flatfour.m3u
rather then /flatfour.mp3 and /flatfour.mp3.m3u




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Stowell" <danstowell at gmail.com>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:45 PM
Subject: [Icecast] Re: Serving a playlist.pls / listen.m3u file


>I think I've answered my own question - I've got a mountpoint at
> /flatfour.mp3 and it looks like /flatfour.mp3.m3u automatically serves
> up a playlist file.
>
> However, Quicktime player still refuses to handle it properly. I had
> to craft my own .pls file for Quicktime to understand, which seems a
> shame!
>
> Thanks anyway,
> Dan
>
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:24:18 +0000, Dan Stowell <danstowell at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Hi - I've heard that Icecast provides a fake "playlist file" along the 
>> lines of
>>
>> http://blahblah:8000/listen.m3u
>>  or
>> http://blahblah:8000/playlist.pls
>>
>> because Quicktime can't seem to handle the stream without a playlist
>> file to wrap it up. (There may be other reasons.) However, I can't
>> seem to find any documentation about this, and guessing various URLs
>> on my icecast2.0.1 port comes up with nothing.
>>
>> Is there such a thing? I can't get my "raw" http://blahblah:8000
>> stream to open in Quicktime... Perhaps there's a config setting that's
>> relevant here?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dan
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