Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

ok so here's the issue.
I've installed IceCast Win32 server on my WinXp Pro machine.
Now i want listeners not only with my LAN but outside my LAN (WAN Listening) to here my Radio.
How do i set up the ip address and all that in teh icecast set up so that ANY ONE WAN/LAN can hear my icecast server?
currently i have ip set as my Internet IP. 216.8.xx.xx idea.
but where and what do i set for some one in england to hear my ICeCasting.
Thanks in advance for help

[karlH]

if you have specified the 216.xxxxx number in hostname then all you need to do is give a reference to your site or stream. eg
http://216.x.x.x:8000/

karl.

[Anonymous]

so all i need to do is in the icecast edit specific the host name as
http://myipaddy:8000 for lan / wan listening..
what will be the stream url to give to listeners?
or maybe you can give me help with the total setup..
let me know cause i'm a bit confused. used Shoutcast for yrs and wanted something different to play with.
Ty for the help again.

[karlH]

For icecast each stream will have a mountpoint which you can append to the previous url I mentioned. By default / is an alias for /status.xsl which will show the different streams you have connected. On that page you'll see clickable links which refer to playlists that browsers will use to start players like winamp/xmms etc. You can define your own playlists of course.

karl.

[Anonymous]

ok.. i think i understand, but i'm not sure.. do ya mind start at the beginning with me just after install and running a first run setup on the windows icecast?
i need to know what all changes i need to make in the config xml doc so that
(1) i can encode / broadcast from the same machine as well as other dj's later on encoding to the IceCast server from there PC's
(2) have listeners on both LAN and WAN (aka near and far)

please remember i'm totally new to IceCast Radio Servers and they are far different then shoutcast. and the radio server, encoder/broadcaster are all ran on the same PC running XP Pro
Thanks Again.

[karlH]

conceptually icecast is similar to shoutcast, icecast is just more flexible in what it can be used for. You can certainly follow the howto docs to find the general descriptions and the icecast docs for specific xml related queries. I would say that the sum total of the xml changes for the windows install would be for the <hostname> setting, which would need to be your external IP/name.

karl.

[Anonymous]

ok Karl. I changed the host name to my external IP and nothing else behind it, now the problem I've having is logging on to the server from the same machine with my broadcasting / encoding software.
i changed host name to Myip and the passwords for sources and admin. all of which have been changed in the needed spot for broadcasting. when i attempt to view the server status page view web browser, no luck there. and still no luck in broadcasting to the server.
Any more thoughts?

[karlH]

you need to be more descriptive of any problems you have. When you say "when i attempt to view the server status page view web browser, no luck there." that would indicate that the browser times out meaning that something is preventing access to icecast, if we are to assume that icecast is running on a certain port eg 8000 then we could say that a firewall or network routing was the cause.

Some people have the icecast in a LAN setup behind a NAT and use port forwarding to provide external access, for those people, if someone within the LAN is providing content then the external address isn't needed, only the LAN address is.

karl.