Icecast Streaming Media Server

[cartif4429]

to whom it may concern,

i have just resently got the icecast 2.3.2 server and and using sam4 on an XP system. The problem that i am having is that the server does not show the sources on the global stats screen when other dj's source into my server, can you please give me some insight on what might be the problem. also is there a simple way to have the auto dj pick up the stream when no one is encoding to the server? thank you for any help you can give me

thanks again, cartif

[karlH]

icecast will allow multiple streams to connect, provided you don't impose limits that are too strict like low values for <sources> or <clients>. As always check the error log, if there are rejections then it will say so in the logs.

As for an AutoDJ, depends on what you want from it exactly. The mechanism to use is fallback-mount. You can specify a filename in webroot but this is not realtime regulated or you can have another playlist based stream from an always connected source. The key thing to note about fallback handling is that the to and from sources need to be in similar formats or else players could have issues playing back content.

karl.

[cartif4429]

thank you karl for the fast reply,

that took care of the sources problem.

now if you could, as i am very new to the whole server/source thing, how would i code the fallback source code and where exactl would i put that.
would it go into a pal script or into a xsl file? and if so which xsl file?

I am very sorry for the inexperience in coding on my part any help would be greatly appreciated.

thank you again for the quick responces,
cartif

[karlH]

look at the samples/docs for information relating to <fallback-mount> is the icecast configuration file (xml)

karl.