Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hi, I have a Windows server without soundcard streaming with oddcast 2.3.1 , that means I can't play files from the HDD.
Now we do a radio there and would like to be able to play mixes hosted on other servers (legal mixes and posted in a connected forum so it would be ok to do so) = listing an ammount of direct links to the "playlist" or releaylist so to say and icecast just relays it on one mountpoint.
I thought Ices could do it but I just found out it's not available for Windows.

You know a tool which is able to do this?

cheers

[karlH]

if you are just looking for a relay of an existing stream then icecast could be used without the need for a source client, if however, you have a selection of files that you want to stream then maybe something like ezstream if not ices should suffice.

karl.

[Anonymous]

thanks man! reads like this is what i waited for! now i need to learn handling command-lines :/

any chance i can connect this with mysql? or is there at least a program you can recommend for "more comfortable" XML editing?

[karlH]

if you are asking about ezstream then you'll have the check the specifics, but apps like ices can invoke scripts, what you do in those scripts is up to you.

karl.

[Anonymous]

but i can't use ices since i'm on windows.
but i have another problem now: the playlist.m3u. ezstream.exe crashes by listing this message all the time:

Cannot open file (http://www.......mp3)

i only have 2 links in the m3u. tried different ways of writing the m3u like

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:3885,(taginfo)
http://www......mp3
#EXTINF:-1,(taginfo)
http://www.....mp3
or just
http://www......mp3
http://www......mp3
or purely saved from winamp etc.

do you know what VI is in this topic? ta

[karlH]

vi, unix editor. It may be related to EOL chars (ie the \r\n), I don't know ezstream that well to know if it handles them or not.

karl.

[Anonymous]

playing files on MY server's webroot works.

1. How can i include the playing track info into icecast's status.xls? Atm it only displays the YP info of the ezstream config xls. Playing the stream displays the track info in the client but i want to include it on the website (iframing the status.xls).

but i want it to play files from other servers. so i want to include URL's into the playlist m3u's.
When entering a url to the playlist, i get this error:

Cannot open (http://www.server.com/file.mp3) - No metadata support

2. What does it mean / how can i fix it?
3. Where can i find the shout tool?

[Anonymous]

this would be an easy way for relaying other radios

[Anonymous]

ok so relaying files not in the server's webroot doesn't work with ezstream?

are there other tools for windows?