[Icecast] Liveice startup error message..

[Brendan Cully]

On Tuesday, 28 December 2004 at 22:37, M T wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying to use liveice with icecast to stream live audio. I am 
> getting an error message that I can't seem to find an answer to. FIrst of 
> all, I start Icecast (Version 2.2.0) and it seems to come up fine.Then I 
> start liveice, and I get the following error message:
> 
> liveice -c /usr/local/bin/liveice.conf
> 0
> Initialising Soundcard
> 16Bit 22050Hz
> opening connection to localhost 8000
> Attempting to Contact Server
> connection successful: forking process
> server didn't send OK response
...
>  >>> liveice configuration file:
...
> X_AUDIOCAST_LOGIN
> # ICY_LOGIN
...

This is most likely your problem. X_AUDIOCAST is the icecast 1
protocol, and it's not supported in v2. I don't use liveice, so I
don't know what you should replace it with - see the docs. My guess
is something like HTTP_LOGIN.