Icecast Streaming Media Server

Ancyent · Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 4

Till now I used shoutcast server and have recently moved to Icecast ..
On Shoutcast, if i play in winamp http://radio.mysite.ro:8000 or http://radio.mysite.ro:8000/listen.pls, it works. In Icecast is different and I understand that I need to use mounts . Works perfectly, but I need some advice about the next thing.

To have listeners i need to promote the radio with a link. On shoutcast was easy because the general link was : http://radio.mysite.ro:8000 , but here, i'm streaming on http://radio.mysite.ro:8000/live, then another DJ wants to stream after me. he need to stream on mount /play or other name so that the listeners will not be disconnected, and then when i stop my streaming, i use <fallback-mount> so that all listeners will be moved on mount /play .

But in this case how can i promote the radio if i have 2 link , http://radio.mysite.ro:8000/live and when another dj is streaming with http://radio.mysite.ro:8000/play ?

Well , I thought about this too. I can make a playlist file listen.pls that holds both links, so when i want to listen radio, i type http://radio.mysite.ro:8000/listen.pls , if first mount works, it will play, if not, it will pass to the other one.

Back to shoutcast server, if i open http://radio.mysite.ro:8000 , it automaticaly play http://radio.mysite.ro:8000/listen.pls , but here on icecast, i have an error: Error syncing to stream.

My question: There is any way to do this? or do you have other ideas, sugesstions?

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

There can be a variety of setups people prefer with this sort of layout. One that was suggested before would be having a relay as the mountpoint that listeners connect on (it could be / just to maintain the url you used before), this relay would read from another mountpoint (say /falllback) that would be there if no Djs would be connected, say a playlist from ices or similar. If you connect on /dj1 then you could have /dj1 doing fallback/overide of /fallback then the relay would bounce between fallback and the current DJ and the listeners would stay on / (which can be useful if you place that mountpoint on a directory).

karl.

Ancyent · Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 4

you mean this?

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

yes, a single <relay> block (which can be on-demand) of a mountpoint on the same server (so eg settings like localhost 8000 /fallback) would work. If it's on-demand then it will kick off when there are listeners present, if not then the relay will retry to get the fallback stream every 120 seconds.

karl.

Ancyent · Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 4

what about if i make 3 mounts:

1. / with fallback on /live
2. /live ( for dj 1 ) with fallback on /play
3. /play ( for dj 2) with fallback on /

So, with this formula i will have only one link http://radio.mysite.ro:8000/ , if this dont work, it will redirect me on http://radio.mysite.ro:8000/live, if this dont work on /play and then back to /

DO you think that will work?

Edit Later:

Well, i've checked the documentation and logically it needs to work but it's seems that the fallmount option doesn't work.

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

do you still have the alias of / to /status.xsl in there? A cascading fallback is another possibility. If you are sure the mount list is not commented out and that you have restarted the server after any of those changes to the xml were done, then I would suggest increasing the log level to 4 and check the error log. At that level you will see entries relating to those mounts.

karl.

Ancyent · Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 4

well, you was right.

1. I deleted the alias from icecast2.xml

2. the mount list was commented.

But something still doesn't work right.

If i'm streaming on /play and i connect on /live, it works. it's redirecting me from /live to /play , but with "/" is a problem.

a. when i'm trying to stream on it, i am disconnected from the server.

in logs i have this: