Icecast Streaming Media Server

[DJManass]

Hello all,

I have launched icecast 2.3.2 server with shoutcast auto dj and the problem is that when auto dj connect its dont show the current song. If dj connect evrything is ok. Maybe anyone have any ideas how to fix it ? Thanks for help =)

Server: Centos 5

[karlH]

are you seeing attempts by the source client to insert metadata in your log files. look for admin.cgi

karl.

[DJManass]

I checked in icecast folder at playlist.log there is no info that auto dj would try to send what song it playing. And where i can find admin.cgi ? And what to do with it?

Thanks for your quick answer and help and sry that i dont understand ;D

i just tryed to update song title for AUTO DJ evrything work fine ;D just that normal songs its dont show ;/ I think the problem is that maybe Auto DJ dont send information about what song its playing so maybe i need to change something in sc_trans.conf?

[karlH]

the playlist log would only show actual updates not failed updates, check your error log. IIRC one of the shoutcast clients does send really badly formatted headers for metadata updates and that will be rejected by icecast.

karl.

[DJManass]

There is no error about /***** stream which is auto DJ

And about badly formatted headers where and how i can fix it

[karlH]

the problem will be shown with
EROR connection/_handle_connection HTTP request parsing failed

a connection that is working will show
INFO admin/admin_handle_request Received admin command admin.cgi on mount "/jpafm"

The headers are from the source client, so it would need to be fixed there, whether there is a working update I can't say and whether anyone from nullsoft/aol is prepared to fix it is another question. I'm not aware of any patch that allowed icecast to accept that particular oddity as generally people used something that worked like ezstream or ices0

karl.

[DJManass]

Ok thanks for your help we will try do something about that =) Btw others sources can't encode to aac+ ;/

[karlH]

That is because of the licensing of aac+.

karl.

[DJManass]

Maybe this will be off topic but just wondering aac+ 64kbps vs ogg 64kbps which is better

[karlH]

You'll get different opinions on that question. Personally I would say vorbis. AAC+ has a cost to it, where as vorbis is free, and based on the last set of low bitrate tests, I tended to find the vorbis one had better quality.

karl