Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hey there,

I'm currently running an OpenBSD web server with icecast2 and ices0.4 for MP3 streaming to the website. Install and configuration of icecast and ices went without a problem, and I can open the icecast website from a network computer. The playlist is loaded and the stream is availible. All good, right?

No dice. when I point Winamp (or any audio system) to http://192.168.1.50:8000/stream.ogg it sits at "connecting..." but never connects. There's no errors in the ices log.

Has anyone heard about this? What's the deal? Any help is greatly appreciated.

[karlH]

The confusion is right there in your posting. You are using ices 0.4 to do MP3 streaming, yet you have specified a mountpoint of /stream.ogg. The ogg extension is used by many players (including winamp) to select the ogg decoder which of course won't work as the data that is being sent is actually MP3. Try specifying a different mountpoint in ices eg /stream.mp3

karl.

[Anonymous]

lol oh my god, I can't believe how stupid I am. Thanks a lot ofr your help.

So in theory I guess all I have to do is rename stream.ogg to stream.mp3 in the icecast config file and restart the server?

[karlH]

The mountpoint is supplied by the source client (ices) so a change will be required there, but if you have settings that were applied to /stream.ogg within icecast (eg max-listeners) then you will have to change the <mount-name> as well.

karl.