Icecast Streaming Media Server

[wgato]

Hey Folks,

I'm using icecast2, ices2, mpc and mpd to stream, and the song title and artist info isn't showing up. I'm not even sure where to start trouble shooting though. Anyone have any suggestions on how to narrow down which part of my setup my might be causing the problem?

thanks!

[karlH]

first you have to determine what application has the metadata, then find out what it should be doing to send them to icecast. Does mpc inform ices2 of the metadata updates for instance?

karl.

[wgato]

sorry for my ignorance, but how would i go about finding that out?

/var/log/ices/ices.log doesnt show any song titles. is there somewhere else i should look?
also where should i look to make sure mpc has the info in the first place?

/etc/ices2/ices-alsa.xml seems to get the info from stdin ??

<input>
<module>oss</module>
<param name="rate">44100</param>
<param name="channels">2</param>
<param name="device">hw:0,0</param>
<!-- Read metadata (from stdin by default, or -->
<!-- filename defined below (if the latter, only on SIGUSR1) -->
<param name="metadata">1</param>
# <param name="metadatafilename">test</param>
</input>

[karlH]

ices cannot get metadata from the audio device, it gets it from the metadata file that you have specified when you send a signal (USR1). So you need to populate that file and send the signal to ices when you get new metadata. Now you need to find out when to do that from mpd/mpc assuming they have the metadata.

karl.