Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

I've got the icecast2 server on my Debian Linux machine and I'm using shout to feed the stream. I am having a shitload of problems here.

First, shout's logs say it's started streaming, set a mountpoint, and logged into icecast. However, when I try to connect to the stream from on the internal network or even the same computer, I get a 404 in icecast's error.log.

I called the stream mountpoint music in shout, and I've tried all these from the computer 192.168.0.106:8000 192.168.0.106:8001 192.168.0.106:8000/music, etc with no luck whatsoever. all I keep getting are 404 errors. My playlist has full paths, my root paths in icecast.xml are set up, but it still doesn't work.

Now, here's where it gets really shitty. I open up the browser and browse to http://localhost:8000/status.xsl on my server machine, and I get this "could not parse XSLT file" shit. So, now I'm flying blind, and I don't know what Icecast thinks the connectable stream is called.

When I try to access the xsl files, error.log shows a 404, even though I have the paths set up EXACTLY right. I specified /etc/icecast2/web for the webroot and MADE SURE all the xsl files were in there, yet the server STILL reports "EROR xslt/xslt_transform problem reading stylesheet "/etc/icecast2/web/status.xsl"

Has anyone gotten this to work?

P.S. might want to consider spending a little extra time before releasing something that doesn't work.

[karlH]

shout is an old buggy program, why use it. ices, ezstream, oddcast, liveice are just a few examples of source clients that people often use.

Mountpoints should begin with / although some source clients assume that initially. and if you are gett errors from a /status.xsl request then check the error log as the webroot path maybe wrong, or some xslt error has been introduced.

Note also 2.3.1 is the latest, so check the version from debian.

karl.

[liteFun]

[Anonymous]

I had all the libraries. I've got it up and going now.

Now, Ices won't randomize the playlist no matter what. I tried starting with -r with no luck. The problem with the xsl files was one of permissions.

[karlH]

ah OK, so you have decided on ices 0.4, add -v to check what it is doing.

karl.

[Anonymous]

awesome! thanks. Turns out I had to create the directory /var/log/ices and set the permissions.

[Anonymous]

ices 0.4 isn't even in Debian's apt db, how lame

[karlH]

lame (or more specifically mp3) is the main reason why it's not in most (if any) distributions.

karl