[Icecast] Pathing syntax for icecast.xml in Windows
Jack Elliott 541 848 7021
thatjackelliott at kpov.org
Mon Jun 1 17:06:21 UTC 2015
Very good, then.
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that Jack Elliott
541 848 7021
Producer Wednesday Point, Host, The Sunday Classics
KPOV 88.9, High Desert Radio
Audio geek
On 06/01/2015 08:52 AM, Marvin Scholz wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2015, at 17:39, Jack Elliott 541 848 7021 wrote:
>
>> Marvin,
>>
>> Ah, thank you for clarifying where "webroot" is.
>>
>> The application here will be a non-public stream with one listener
>> client. Icecast is hosted on a computer at our radio station. It will
>> receive a stream from a stream client at a remote live music event.
>> There will be one listener: a media player running on another computer
>> on the network at the station which will send the audio to the FM
>> transmitter.
>>
>> The intial setup works fine just doing the minimum suggested
>> modifications to icecast.xml: change passwords and usernames, and give
>> mountpoint a unique name. This is all toward the top of the config
>> file.
>>
>> There is a large section toward the bottom of the config file where
>> one
>> defines normal mounts and suchlike. It comes commented out and I've
>> left
>> it that way since so far the setup is working.
>>
>> To add a fallback, I read here (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Icecast2)
>> that
>> all I really need to do at this point is uncomment out the following
>> in
>> the config file:
>>
>> <mount>
>> <mount-name>/MountnameSameAsStaticFilename.mp3</mount-name>
>> <fallback-mount/MountnameSameAsStaticFilename.mp3</fallback-mount>
>> <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
>> </mount>
> As far as I know what you have to do is, define a mount section for your
> stream:
>
> <mount>
> <mount-name>/mystream.mp3</mount-name>
> <fallback-mount>/fallback.mp3</fallback-mount>
> </mount>
>
> I don't think that the fallback would need a config to just fallback to
> itself, this makes no
> sense to me.
> (Disclaimer: I've never configured a fallback setup like yours)
>
>
>> And avoid doing the more complicated setting up of normal mounts, etc.
>> since everything is working well so far without having to do so.
>>
>> --
>> that Jack Elliott
>> 541 848 7021
>> Producer Wednesday Point, Host, The Sunday Classics
>> KPOV 88.9, High Desert Radio
>> Audio geek
>>
>> On 06/01/2015 07:45 AM, Marvin Scholz wrote:
>>> On 1 Jun 2015, at 16:31, Jack Elliott 541 848 7021 wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Marvin, thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Okay, then to be clear, "webroot" for the purposes of running
>>>> Icecast
>>>> under Windows would be the same folder where icecast.xml is normally
>>>> found, i.e., C:\Program Files\icecast
>>> The webroot is where the web files are, so it should be `web` on
>>> Windows
>>> and
>>> contain files like `status.xsl`.
>>>
>>>> And, if I read you correctly, suppose my normal mount coming from my
>>>> source client is called /example (it is an mp3 stream so I don't
>>>> specify , and highlighted in yellow, the extension). If I place a
>>>> file called "example.mp3" in the
>>>> webroot, and rename my live mount "example.mp3" then will Icecast
>>>> automatically fall back to the static file in the event that the
>>>> source
>>>> client goes off-air?
>>> No, I re-checked to be clear and the correct statement is:
>>> Icecast will treat static files like mounts if they are in webroot.
>>> This
>>> means that if you
>>> have a mount defined in your config with the name foo.mp3 and you
>>> have a
>>> foo.mp3 in your webroot,
>>> Icecast will apply the mount settings (like auth for example) to this
>>> static file.
>>> Best is to never have a static file with the same name as a
>>> mountpoint
>>> you want to stream to.
>>>
>>> But that handling makes it possible that you can use a static file as
>>> fallback mount, because Icecast will
>>> play the file, if there is one with the same name as the mountpoint.
>>> Just make sure to place the file in the webroot and name it to
>>> something
>>> that won't conflict with any other
>>> stream. Then enter that name for the fallback mount as explained in
>>> my
>>> last mail.
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> that Jack Elliott
>>>> 541 848 7021
>>>> Producer Wednesday Point, Host, The Sunday Classics
>>>> KPOV 88.9, High Desert Radio
>>>> Audio geek
>>>>
>>>> On 06/01/2015 07:21 AM, Marvin Scholz wrote:
>>>>> On 1 Jun 2015, at 16:04, Jack Elliott 541 848 7021 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Philipp,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I find in the Icecast docs the following:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "_A fallback mount can also state a file that is located in
>>>>>> webroot._
>>>>> This is true, and itIt
>>>>> expects to be a mount name, as mounts will fallback to files in
>>>>> webroot
>>>>> with the same name, if they exists, you can use a file as well.
>>>>> exactly states what's wrong with your syntax. It
>>>>> expects to be a mount name, as mounts will fallback to files in
>>>>> webroot
>>>>> with the same name, if they exists, you can use a file as well.
>>>>> Therefore you can't just put the full path there, like you did.
>>>>> (And
>>>>> you
>>>>> path does not seem to point to webroot) If you want to have a
>>>>> fallback
>>>>> file, put it in webroot and just put the filename in the
>>>>> fallback-mount,
>>>>> as you would usually do with a mountpoint:
>>>>>
>>>>> <fallback-mount>/fallback.mp3</fallback-mount>
>>>>>
>>>>>> This is useful for playing a pre-recorded file in the case of a
>>>>>> stream
>>>>>> going down. It will repeat until either the listener disconnects
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> stream comes back available and takes the listeners back. As per
>>>>>> usual, the file format should match the stream format, failing to
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> so may cause problems with playback."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is at http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.1/config-file.htm
>>>>>> <http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.1/config-file.html>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So it appears that one can specify a static file as the fallback.
>>>>>> My
>>>>>> question has to do with whether Icecast will be happy with the
>>>>>> syntax
>>>>>> I have proposed as the path to the file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> that Jack Elliott
>>>>>> 541 848 7021
>>>>>> Producer Wednesday Point, Host, The Sunday Classics
>>>>>> KPOV 88.9, High Desert Radio
>>>>>> Audio geek
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 05/31/2015 05:12 AM, Philipp Schafft wrote:
>>>>>>> reflum,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 09:30 -0700, that Jack Elliott wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Icecast.xml sh"A fallback mount can also state a file that is
>>>>>>>> located in webroot. This
>>>>>>>> is useful for playing a pre-recorded file in the case of a
>>>>>>>> stream
>>>>>>>> going
>>>>>>>> down. It will repeat until either the listener disconnects or a
>>>>>>>> stream
>>>>>>>> comes back available and takes the listeners back. As per usual,
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> file format should match the stream format, failing to do so may
>>>>>>>> cause
>>>>>>>> problems with playback."ows a sample path to a mountpoint
>>>>>>>> fallback
>>>>>>>> file as
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> <fallback-mount>/example2.ogg</fallback-mount>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Under Windows, will this next work?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> <fallback-mount>"C:\Users\username\Desktop\foldername\subfoldername
>>>>>>>> \fallback.mp3"</fallback-mount>
>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> No.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think you misunderstanding fallbacks a bit: Those are not files
>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>> actual mounts (which may be files within the webroot).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I would suggest to read docs for more info:
>>>>>>> http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.1/config-file.html#mountsettings
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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