Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

so i've figured out what i need to set up a radio station but i cant figure out what to do to make sure my station works. I have traktor DJ studio 3 which supports icecast broadcasts-and is my source client (i believe). I just want to know what and how do i configure icecast so that i can broadcast and have the source coming from my laptop.

Also- i'm very computer literate, but i'm new to internet radio and hosting my own server. i am using the icecast win32 GUI version because the closest thing i come to code is command line...unfortunately. i kno this must be a noob question but everything i see here refers to winamp and other sources. i set up the passwords and ports in my config so far-pretty much everything is the same except i let multiple users on port 8080 instead of 8001.

where do i put the logfile directory? should i put in the folder <C:/Icecast/Logdir> or somthing else? and how do i set up the url? i just need help setting up the server...

[karlH]

Obviously for support on traktor DJ you need to speak to the people who wrote it, while some here may of used it you may find that no one can anwser any of those questions.

For Icecast, the paths for the different structures like logdir, webroot and adminroot can be anything you like as long as they are valid. Like most things in icecast, the defaults should be ok for you. You don't need many of the options to get icecast up and running you just need to configure the IP, ports, passwords, hostname at the very least and configure the source client with a mountpoint, password, IP/port etc that match.

Some users think that a lot of configuration is needed in icecast to make it work. There isn't, the samples we provide tend to include a lot of commented out stuff that show possibilities not requirements.

karl.

[Anonymous]

ok i think i have my server running. i can run icecast and log into my admin by typin in my lan IP:8000.

right now my code looks like this:

<icecast>
<limits>
<clients>100</clients>
<sources>2</sources>
<threadpool>5</threadpool>
<queue-size>524288</queue-size>
<client-timeout>30</client-timeout>
<header-timeout>15</header-timeout>
<source-timeout>10</source-timeout>
<burst-on-connect>1</burst-on-connect>
<burst-size>65535</burst-size>
</limits>

<authentication>
<source-password>******</source-password>
<relay-password>******</relay-password>
<admin-user>admin</admin-user>
<admin-password>******</admin-password>
</authentication>

<hostname>localhost</hostname>
<listen-socket>
<port>8000</port>
</listen-socket>

<fileserve>1</fileserve>

<mount-name>/stream.ogg</mount-name>

<paths>
<basedir>./</basedir>

<logdir>./logs</logdir>
<webroot>./web</webroot>
<adminroot>./admin</adminroot>
<alias source="/" dest="/status.xsl"/>
</paths>

<logging>
<accesslog>access.log</accesslog>
<errorlog>error.log</errorlog>
<loglevel>4</loglevel> <!-- 4 Debug, 3 Info, 2 Warn, 1 Error -->
<logsize>10000</logsize> <!-- Max size of a logfile -->
</logging>

<security>
<chroot>0</chroot>
</security>
</icecast>

(the p/w have been ***'d out for security in this post-but who's gonna hack me here?)

what i need help with is how to make the mount point... what does my code need to set up a mount pt? i think i need one b/c traktor asks for one in the settings. my page loads and i just need a lil help figurin out what else i need to do now to get broadcasting

[karlH]

you don't need anything to make a mountpoint. The source client specifies a mountpoint and icecast uses that as a reference to stream on.

karl.