Icecast Streaming Media Server

[cookiesunshinex]

On my server when ices is playing as an "autodj" , I've got ices configured to play an intro file on connect.

This file plays 1 or 2 beats of the intro (1 second long maybe) and then it "hiccups" or goes silent, and then the rest of the file plays fine.

When a live source client is connected to the server, I don't have an intro file configured to play... and the same thing happens, but with the live source audio.

Any idea what may be causing this. I'm using the default out of the box icecast.xml file only changed the domain name and passwords.

[karlH]

Are you saying the data stream drops to 0 bytes per second for a while or are you saying the audio stops playback. If the former doesn't happen then you need to check what data is being sent and how the player is reacting to it. using wget/curl should be enough to check the data rate.

karl.

[cookiesunshinex]

trace http://www.jungle.fm:8000 --trace trace.txt produced these results:

Is --trace the right switch or should I be using -w instead?

== Info: About to connect() to www.jungle.fm port 8000 (#0)
== Info: Trying 66.147.239.58... == Info: connected
== Info: Connected to www.jungle.fm (66.147.239.5 port 8000 (#0)
=> Send header, 159 bytes (0x9f)
0000: 47 45 54 20 2f 73 74 72 65 61 6d 2e 6d 33 75 20 GET /stream.m3u
0010: 48 54 54 50 2f 31 2e 31 0d 0a 55 73 65 72 2d 41 HTTP/1.1..User-A
0020: 67 65 6e 74 3a 20 63 75 72 6c 2f 37 2e 31 36 2e gent: curl/7.16.
0030: 33 20 28 70 6f 77 65 72 70 63 2d 61 70 70 6c 65 3 (powerpc-apple
0040: 2d 64 61 72 77 69 6e 39 2e 30 29 20 6c 69 62 63 -darwin9.0) libc
0050: 75 72 6c 2f 37 2e 31 36 2e 33 20 4f 70 65 6e 53 url/7.16.3 OpenS
0060: 53 4c 2f 30 2e 39 2e 37 6c 20 7a 6c 69 62 2f 31 SL/0.9.7l zlib/1
0070: 2e 32 2e 33 0d 0a 48 6f 73 74 3a 20 77 77 77 2e .2.3..Host: www.
0080: 6a 75 6e 67 6c 65 2e 66 6d 3a 38 30 30 30 0d 0a jungle.fm:8000..
0090: 41 63 63 65 70 74 3a 20 2a 2f 2a 0d 0a 0d 0a Accept: */*....
<= Recv header, 17 bytes (0x11)
0000: 48 54 54 50 2f 31 2e 30 20 32 30 30 20 4f 4b 0d HTTP/1.0 200 OK.
0010: 0a .
<= Recv header, 31 bytes (0x1f)
0000: 43 6f 6e 74 65 6e 74 2d 54 79 70 65 3a 20 61 75 Content-Type: au
0010: 64 69 6f 2f 78 2d 6d 70 65 67 75 72 6c 0d 0a dio/x-mpegurl..
<= Recv header, 2 bytes (0x2)
0000: 0d 0a ..
<= Recv data, 34 bytes (0x22)
0000: 68 74 74 70 3a 2f 2f 77 77 77 2e 6a 75 6e 67 6c http://www.jungl
0010: 65 2e 66 6d 3a 38 30 30 30 2f 73 74 72 65 61 6d e.fm:8000/stream
0020: 0d 0a ..
== Info: Closing connection #0

[cookiesunshinex]

Upon further investigation, this happen 90% of the time with iTunes on Mac OS X. 10% of the time, the intro file plays smoothly as expected with iTunes.

I cannot reproduce the issue with either Quicktime player or Real Player on Mac OS X.

Any idea why this happens only with iTunes?

[karlH]

the data rate looks fine here and the content seems valid, vlc plays it here so I don't think there is anything wrong with it.

karl.