Icecast Streaming Media Server

Anonymous · Guest

I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but I'm using MPD to stream to icecast and I have to reconnect after every song. The stream just stops playing. It's kind of annoying to have to reconnect after each song, no? I see sparse hints of people having this problem as well, but I just can't seem to find anything specific about it.

MPD-svn 9/16/2006
Icecast 2.31.1-r1
Gentoo Linux

Listening with Windows Media Player and an ogg plugin

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

Which is actually closing the connection? mpd, icecast or WMP

karl.

Anonymous · Guest

Well, the MPD stream coming out of the speakers of the computer MPD is running on doesn't stop, so I don't think that it's MPD. However, as soon as the song switches, the WMP stops playing. I'm guessing it's icecast cause WMP doesn't do this for other streams... Sometimes when I reconnect, it says unable to play the file as well. Other times, it just resumes the new song.

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

Why guess?, check the icecast logs files, that will tell you, and therefore us, what is actually happening.

karl.

Anonymous · Guest

Ok, here's the log output at song change with me connected via WMP

Anonymous · Guest

Here's the same log with winamp connected, which also gets dropped. I think we can rule out the media player...

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

You can't rule out anything with those log snippets. Lets take each one in turn.

The first shows mpd shutting down the stream at 21:52:29, no error just a close of the connection, then an immediate reconnection of the stream (/MaoRadio.ogg). A listener connects at 21:52:30 then another at 21:52:33. At 21:52:34 a listener is removed because the listener connection has been closed.

The second list shows no listeners connecting at all. The mpd source disconnects at 22:29:49 and immediately reconnects.

From the output (so far) it looks like the source client is disconnecting, if so, the access log should show one line for each source client connection matching that of each song.

karl.

Anonymous · Guest

Well in these, I am listening with WMP and Winamp, respectively, at the top of the log file, and after MPD changes the song I just get no sound at all. Perhaps it's cause of the tiny hiccup that MPD does between songs. I tried to turn on crossfading for MPD (maybe it'll just stream continuously), but that doesn't seem to remove the disconnect...

Anonymous · Guest

Hmm...Now I upgraded to mpd 0.12.1 and still using icecast 2.3.1-r1, and I'm not getting anything in the icecast status page at all...no errors in either the mpd or icecast logs, just no mounts visible on icecast. Anyone else have this problem?

Anonymous · Guest

I have this problem with Icecast too... when playing an audio stream, the track changes affect the playback of files, resulting in the playback stopping.
It happens when using OddcastV3 too...
The time in WMP carries on counting up, but the sound cuts out, and only corrects itself when the feed is restarted by reloading the URL...

If anyone comes up with a solution to this problem, it would be greatly appreciated Smile

Anonymous · Guest

Actually the latest versions of mpd and icecast worked for me, and they stream fine...

Although I found a better solution. Use gnump3d to stream (and if you have a gui, just get rid of mpd altogether and use amarok or something)