[Icecast] ices config problems

[Michael Smith]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 01:08:15 +0100, klaus thorn <klaus at trillke.net> wrote:
> *** the following config:
>         <input>
>             <module>playlist</module>
>             <param name="type">script</param>
>             <param name="file">/radio/getnextsongpath</param>
>         </input>
> gets me:
> 
> Could not find a valid playlist file.
> Ices Exiting...

That's a very, very unusual place to put your playlist. Are you sure
it's really there?

> 
> *** the following header of the config file:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <ices>
> 
> gets me:
> 
> XML Parser: Document of invalid type, no ices namespace found
> 
> note that this is the header of your distirbuted config files from ices-2.0.0/conf/

Yeah, but are you actually USING ices-2.0.0? It looks like you're
using ices 0.x, which is a completely different application.

> 
> *** back to using playlist script:
> 
>             <ices:Playlist>
>                 <ices:Type>script</ices:Type>
>                 <ices:Module>/radio/getnextsongpath</ices:Module>

So you ARE using ices 0.x

> 
> produces:
> 
> DEBUG: Initializing playlist handler...
> DEBUG: Initializing builting playlist handler...
> Could not find a valid playlist file.

Does ices 0.x have script playlists? It looks like it's trying to find
a playlist file...

> 
> ices 2.0.0 = ices alpha release,
> with misleading documentation+example config,
> and missing core feature

You're not using ices2 at all.

Mike