Icecast Streaming Media Server

[hpg4815]

Had IceS working with OGG, now trying to utilize MP3 streaming from a live broadcast.

QUESTION 1: is a playlist file required to exists and be defined in my application (live broadcast) if I'm not using a playlist (assuming playlist means a list of stored files of music?)

QUESTION 2: ices.conf states that defining a mount point is considered advanced options like alternative passwords.. Whats the alternative passwords for? I want anyone to be able to listen to this stream. Do I need to mess with the username and password section?

QUESTION 3: How does these mount point definitions look?
not using username and pass (unless i need to define it for the source client to connect?), when do i need a dumpfile? I'm only really interested in using the actual mount point. Should the on-connect be the path to the icecast startup script?
icecast.xml
<mount>
<mount-name>/</mount-name>

<username>othersource</username>
<password>hackmemore</password>

<max-listeners>1</max-listeners>
<dump-file>/tmp/dump-example1.ogg</dump-file>
<burst-size>65536</burst-size>
<fallback-mount>/example2.ogg</fallback-mount>
<fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
<fallback-when-full>1</fallback-when-full>
<intro>/example_intro.ogg</intro>
<hidden>1</hidden>
<no-yp>1</no-yp>
<authentication type="htpasswd">
<option name="filename" value="myauth"/>
<option name="allow_duplicate_users" value="0"/>
</authentication>
<on-connect>/home/icecast/bin/stream-start</on-connect>
<on-disconnect>/home/icecast/bin/stream-stop</on-disconnect>
</mount>
ices.conf
<Mountpoint>/</Mountpoint>

[root@voice /usr/local/etc]# tail -f /var/log/icecast/ices0/ices.log
DEBUG: Host: voice.wvfs.fsu.edu:8000 (protocol: http)
DEBUG: Mount: /ices, Password: *******
DEBUG: Name: wvfs URL: http://voice.wvfs.fsu.edu/
DEBUG: Genre: College Radio Desc: WVFS V89
DEBUG: Bitrate: 128 Public: 0
DEBUG: Dump file: (null)
DEBUG: Initializing playlist handler...
DEBUG: Initializing builting playlist handler...
Could not find a valid playlist file.
Ices Exiting...