Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Guest]

I'm sorry if this is in the wrong area. I'm having a hard time getting liveice (liveice-sn04) to pick up the music I'm sending to it. At least, I think that's what's going on. Icecast runs fine, as does Liveice. Liveice connects to the Icecast server without fail. However, Liveice isn't sending anything to Icecast.

I have the music on computer named "hatch" being sent out to computer named "nine" (where the Liveice and Icecast reside) through a mixer board. I have speakers hooked up to nine and can hear the music just fine so I know it's getting to nine. Just can't figure out why Liveice isn't grabbing the music and tossing it over to Icecast.

Here's some stuff from my liveice.cfg that might or might not help in understanding how my stuff's set up.

#there are no command line equivalents for these
#SOUNDCARD
#NO_SOUNDCARD
# lets you specify another device to connect to
SOUND_DEVICE /dev/dsp
# specify a mountpoint too.
#
HTTP_LOGIN
MOUNTPOINT /liveice

I hope what I described makes sense. If anyone has any ideas that might help, I'd very much appreciate them. I'm hoping to take this setup live tonight, in six hours.

[Anonymous]

Since I posted this, I've set up music on the nine (box running Liveice and Icecast) and installed NFS. Yay for howto pages. I can get the music to play with xmms on hatch (workstation) but I'm still not seeing the Liveice simple_frontend.tk application tos how the volume bars so I'm guessing that it's still not working right.

Still looking for ideas. Thankies.

[EvilOverlord]

Do you have OSS or ALSA installed?
What have you set as the capture device on the soundcard mixer?
What is your audio source?

[Anonymous]

I hope these answer your questions. I'm using ALSA.

Capture devices are two mics plugged into the mixer board which is plugged into the audio-in device port on an SB Live! value card (in nine).

Coming out of hatch (where some music is and where I mount the NFS to) I have the cable that goes to the mixer board coming out of device port labeled O))->1 on an SB24 card. I seem to have very few channels listed for this card when I run alsam

FYI, on hatch, device ports O))->2 and O))->3 don't seem to push anything out.

[EvilOverlord]

Okay, Liveice needs OSS to work, however don't worry, ALSA comes with OSS compatability which is usually turned on by default.

Check the special file "/dev/dsp" exists and have a look in /etc/asound.conf to see if the OSS module is uncommented. (asound.conf is the ALSA config file)

Next, you're going to have to explain a bit more clearly what you're trying to do.

What is the source of audio for this stream? The mics or the music on hatch?

[Anonymous]

Okay. I'm sorry for not explaining this better. I whipped up a dumpy little dia thingy and made a diagram for you to look at as well. Also including pictures of as much as possible because I'm TERRIBLE at describing stuff lately.


The music on hatch is sent out through here (and I'm covering everything this time):


A cable converter takes it form that port sized plug and switches it to RCA which leads into the uber dumpy Radio Shack 4 channel stereo microphone mixer where I have two mics plugged in. From the mixer board thingy, I have the same types of cables going into nine through here, complete with converter back to the port sized input ports.


I'm doing all this because the SB24 card in Hatch has very little support and I can't get my mic to work with it plus I wanted to integrate the use of the mixer board (obviously) so I can control the volumes of the music and the mic input at a manual / hardware level.

/dev/dsp exists.
[root@nine nine]# ls -l /dev/dsp
crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 5 14:03 /dev/dsp
I'm thinking the permissions aren't ideal. Probably crw-rw-rw~?

I found what I think you were talking about for the conf file in here:
/etc/makedev.d/sound.conf
Most of the OSS stuff was uncommented. lsmod gave me this:
snd-seq-oss

If I'm missing more information, I'll of course be more than happy to dig up what I can. Thank you very much for your patience and help.

[Anonymous]

I had a '13690:Error: Line In mode *and* no soundcard??????? Eeejit!' message when I started liveice. I solved that KDE grabb then sound card and didn't release the resources. Uncheck the 'enable the sound system' in the kde configuration panel.