[Icecast] Frustrated with Ubuntu XMMS, XMMS-Liveice, and icecast

[Thomas B. Ruecker]

Kevin Jackey wrote:
> I have XMMS and XMMS-liveice setup to use ALSA to stream audio to my
> icecast server using LAME encoding.
>
> I start the sound file and i can see XMMS playing away happily,
> icecast detects the connection and shows the source as being
> connected, but no bandwisth useage. If I connect to the icecast server
> I get a client connection, but no sound.
>
> Scanning other forums there appears that there might be an issue with
> XMMS-liveice, icecast, and ALSA. Does anyone know if this is the case?
xmms-liveice was not working with icecast2 last time I checked and no
installing icecast 1.3.x is not a sane option at all(old, deprecated, etc.)!
I'd suggest getting a different source client like oddcast-v3

Cheers

Thomas