Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

I am a newbie to icecast. I am trying to streaming one of my songs to icecast. The bitrate is 32k. But it turns out that the listener need to buffer like for ever to get the stream.

I am wondering if there is a limit on the bitrate of source client. If so, what is the limit.

All my configure are by default.

Thanks

[karlH]

Not much information to go on, which client apps are being used, which stream format etc?

karl.

[Anonymous]

the client is m3w and the stream format is mp3.

[karlH]

Had to check on m3w, it looks to be a source client. Icecast doesn't impose any bitrate limits but without a url or information about the player it's hard to guess. I would check if you are using VBR for your mp3 as that tends to fail with some apps like WMP.

karl.

[Anonymous]

oh, Is there any limitations that the bandwidth of the stream server.

I use my laptop and desktop to test. My laptop worked as a stream server. and I recorded my songs using my laptop while listening to it using my desktop. The network is a Lan.

The player i used to listen to the stream was Windows Media player 10. Are you suggesting that i use winamp or some other app?

[karlH]

The bandwidth limitation (if an issue) will be your network link. I would suggest you try different players like winamp to make sure of issues with a player. Most players have some quirks/bugs and WMP is no exception. A common problem with WMP is VBR mp3 streams don't work while VBR file files do.

karl.