Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm an Austrian sysadmin living in South France, and I've been running a small webradio using a combination of MPD and Icecast. Currently I have a playlist of 200 songs running in repeat mode.

I've noticed a strange behaviour. When I'm using XMMS as client, there are exactly three songs in my playlist that will always disconnect me. What I mean: a certain song ends, the next song's ID3 info gets displayed, but XMMS remains silent. I have to manually reconnect (Buffering, etcetera).

I tested it with VLC, and it seems to work. Anyone here already seen anything similar? What's happening?

Cheers,

NK

[karlH]

When streaming, you have to make sure that each of the tracks are of a similar format. Don't expect a change from mono to stereo or vice versa or changes in samplerate to work at all. Icecast itself won't care as it doesn't decode the stream but the players do.

karl.