Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am now in charge of a stream setup, but really don't know much about it all. I know about the status.xsl page, but I thought there was another page where amongst other things it listed the IP's of listeners and also which version of Icecast was installed.

As I am new to linux I would not know how to find out which version was installed from the gentoo linux command line.

Next, could someone please explain how to upgrade the Icecast program. Is it simple or not? I think at the moment that we are running 2.0 and so upgrading could prove useful, but I don't want it to leave it completely broken!

One thing we introduced last year (when the chap who understands it all was about) was a small playlist for an intro file. I see that this has now been properly implemented (which is great news!) and it would make sense to do this with our streams, but again I really don't want it to mess up! (if it ain't broke etc etc...)

I would really like to start learning linux - but I have been thrown in the deep end rather! It is a good time to fiddle, as the stream is not live at the moment, and I have full ssh access.

Thanks in advance,
David

[karlH]

admin pages are available via the /admin/ links eg /admin/stats.xsl, you can get a list of the IPs from one of the pages in there.

icecast -v should tell you the version installed but 2.3.1 is the current version. Upgrading should be fairly simple, it will depend on your experience, and what you do to role out the release. I cannot comment on the gentoo package installation as I don't have that distro, but we do try to keep a high degree of compatability between releases with respect to the configuration file.

Intro files were new to the 2.3.x release so I don't know what your other chap has done but it is a single file, not a playlist. In theory I suppose a playlist could be specified in a later version but no decision has been made on that.

karl.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that, I have now found the admin pages...

I can see that we are running version 2.1.0

I believe that because there was no integrated intro file format with this version a small playlist was created that was played on connection, with the intro file as the first item in the playlist. The stream was then the second playlist item.

Is there a step by step guide for upgrading??

Thanks,
David

[Anonymous]

Is there really no instructions for how to upgrade? Or do you have to uninstall the software and then completely reinstall and reconfigure it?

Thanks,
David

[karlH]

You will have an xml that you have configured specifically for your setup, and that won't have to change, just update the icecast installation you have to 2.3.1 (using whatever package) then run icecast with the same xml. The intro file is done by adding an extra tag in the <mount> section. This works better than the playlist way as the player could use random selection.

karl.