Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

hello all got icecast to install alright on freebsd and i can access http://myserver:8000/admin/status.xml but that is about it totally lost as to what to do next please help

[karlH]

Usually the next stage is to configure/use a source client to create one or more streams for that icecast to serve.

karl.

[Anonymous]

I have installed ices2 and ices0 but am having trouble figuring them out. ices0 is asking for a playlist. I have a directory with mostly mp3 files and wish to serve it up some friends. Do i need a playlist? is there a way to generate one or just have ices take files from the directory

[karlH]

building a playlist is easy with unix

find /path/to/mp3/files -name '*.mp3' -print > playlist

karl.

[Anonymous]

Thanks making some progress now thanks for the point in the right direction. Ices/Icecast Seem to be providing a stream at http://computerking.ca:8000/ices as seen below

DEBUG: MPEG-1 layer III, VBR, 44100 Hz, stereo
DEBUG: Ext: 0 Mode_Ext: 0 Copyright: 0 Original: 1
DEBUG: Error Protection: 0 Emphasis: 0 Padding: 0
Playing /home/ftpking/pub/1_music/The Beatles/Rubber Soul/04 - Nowhere Man.mp3
DEBUG: Updated metadata on /ices to: The Beatles - Nowhere Man
Mounted on http://computerking.ca:8000/ices
DEBUG: Delaying metadata update...
DEBUG: Updated metadata on /ices to: The Beatles - Nowhere Man

but i cannot find it with windows media player and it states this when i enter this url

http://computerking.ca:8000/ices

Windows Media Player cannot find the specified file. Be sure the path is typed correctly. If it is, the file does not exist at the specified location, or the computer where the file is stored is offline.

also i am a little concerned about ices eating all my cpu cycles is this normal it will take 100% if system is idle. I tried to start it as a background dameon but it core dumped.


48746 root 64 0 7860K 3512K RUN 1:28 73.64% 73.10% ices0
42975 clamav 2 0 22888K 20640K poll 53:45 23.39% 23.39% clamd

Also in my logs i get this

error.log
[2006-09-17 11:09:23] INFO fserve/fserve_client_create checking for file /ices (/home/ftpking/pub/1_music/ices)
[2006-09-17 11:09:23] DBUG fserve/fserve_add_client Adding client to file serving engine
[2006-09-17 11:09:23] WARN fserve/fserve_client_create found requested file but there is no handler for it: /home/ftpking/pub/1_music/ices
[2006-09-17 11:09:23] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node client_connections (3)

access.log
192.168.0.11 - - [17/Sep/2006:11:09:23 -0600] "GET /ices HTTP/1.1" 404 106 "-" "NSPlayer/10.0.0.3802 WMFSDK/10.0" 0

[bbk]

hello

if you have a mount point you can access it with

http://computerking.ca:8000/ices.m3u

to be shure your stream is up you have to check the following status page:

http://computerking.ca:8000/status.xsl

...but i have also freebsd and ices0 never worked on my system on the same state of log you showed it hanged up and used about 30% of the cpu.... but didn't worked.

so i use ezstream now and i have a random stream up for a month now without having to restart it

if you just want to put single files for distribution you can use the integrated funktion <fileserve>1</fileserve> of icecast and all of your files placed in the webroot folder are accessable for your friends with the following link:

http://computerking.ca:8000/[your_file_with_extention].m3u

hope it helps you out a little bit
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