Icecast Streaming Media Server

[peepo]

Im trying to work out how to make my stream available for different kinds of music players.
I have the m3u one working, but we have listen buttons on my website that are listener software specific.

http://215.168.190.207:8000/live.m3u

Ive tried to make the links work by adding these file extensions, but when clicked it just sais 'this file cannot be found on this server'

http://215.168.190.207:8000/live.pls

http://215.168.190.207:8000/live.qtl

http://215.168.190.207:8000/live.asx

http://215.168.190.207:8000/live.ram

What am I doing wrong, and what do I need to do to achieve links specific to certain software?

[Anonymous]

you need to make the playlist files yourself, and make sure that application supports what your stream is encoded with.

not all players will decode and play oggcast, usually shoutcast/mpeg is your best bet

you need to google about and understand how it works, then you'll be able to do this yourself

[karlH]

playlist format is different from stream content format. content format always has issues with player support. Icecast will generate the m3u/xspf playlist automatically but pls and the others need to be placed in webroot (eg mountpoint.pls)

karl.

[peepo]

can anyone elaborate on this? as Im still in the dark.
Someone told me I just change the prefix on the end of each one & it will work.
What do I need to do to make these work?

[karlH]

You need to look up the specs for the playlist formats and write one referring to your stream or get some app to create them for you. I think the pls can be found by a simple search not sure about the others. Icecast will not create files in formats it knows nothing about. then place them in webroot.

karl.

[peepo]

ok, just to confirm. Im placing a playlist file of each of my required formats, pointing to the stream, so when someone requests a certain format the playlist file points them to the stream?
And I place these playlist files in webroot?
Do I need to ammend anything in the cofig file aswell?

[karlH]

I think you are getting there. The xml should not need changing.

karl.

[peepo]

ok all done The files are in the web root folder.
How do I link to the files in web root?

http://215.168.190.207/listen.pls

listen.pls being the name of the playlist file.
Im doing that & they arent working

[karlH]

It looks like something is blocking access to the server, I can't connect at all, so getting a playlist is not going to work unless that gets sorted out.

karl.

[peepo]

no, server isnt running at the moment. Am I using correct url to get to playlist file? Or does it need to be different if I am pointing to the webroot folder?

[karlH]

Assuming listen.pls exists in your webroot and you are listening on port 80 then that is the correct url.

karl.

[peepo]

No, we are listening on port 8000. What does the 80 mean?

[karlH]

the url you posted did not include a port number so port 80 is assumed (because it is http), if you want port 8000 then the url would be http://215.168.190.207:8000/listen.pls

karl.

[peepo]

Port 8000 is specified within the playlist file that the url is pointing to. Do I also need to put the port number in the link pointing to the playlist file?

[karlH]

If you don't then icecast won't see then request for the playlist.

karl.