Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

I'm sure you're probably sick to the back teeth of idiots like me who can't get this working, but I hope you can sort me out as I've been tinkering for weeks to no avail

I'm attempting to set up Traktor 3 to broadcast on a remote Shoutcast server. I'm hoping to be able to do this on a single machine (Lenovo Core 2 Duo, running XP Pro, and plugged into a Behringer BCD3000). I've had Traktor running to play on for ages, but I'm having issues broadcasting

Apparently this is possible using a combination of Traktor, Icecast, Oddsocks Transcoder, Winamp and the Shoutcast DSP plugin.

I'm seemingly failing on all front, but i'm hoping to attack this logically, and would appreciate any help you guys could give me (especially with the first half of this problem, where icecast is intrinsically involved.)

a) Getting an ogg stream out of Traktor to Icecast

I've had icecast server up and running, using the loopback server (127.0.0.1:8000/admin), and using my internal LAN IP address (192.168.2.30) but the gloal server stats (specifically file connections/client connections) just seem to climb each time I hit F5 and nothing is listed in the sources

I'm currently using this xml config

[Anonymous]

*bump*

Can anyone even begin to help me with this?

I've tried to include as much information as I can in the query ... if there's anytrhing else you need please just ask.

[karlH]

traktor is a source client and is best advised by the people who support it, you may get some comments from the source client forum.

If you don't need yp listings then you don't need the <directory> tags, but other than that you don't have anything wrong in icecast. If the password in traktor matches the <source-password> then you should connect without problem (check your log files for icecast). This is assuming that traktor is even trying and there's nothing preventing access like a firewall.

Regarding the codec settings, if you want to aim for a 128k vorbis stream then 44.1khz is easily handled.

karl.

[Anonymous]

Cheers for getting back to me.

I think the issue is that I'm using about 3-4 bits of software together to try and solve this problem, and every forum seems to be of the opinion that it's someone elses job to provide support, which means my problem seems to fall through the cracks a little.

I've tried the Native Instruments forum (the guys that make Traktor) and they're not exactly being helpful.

I'll go back over the config file later on and try to ensure that everything is setup correctly, so at least I know that icecast is working properly, and I can eliminate it as the source of the problems I'm having.

As and when I manage to double check this, could you look over it just to make sure I've got all of the settings correct?

Do you know of anyone who has done what I'm attempting before?

[karlH]

There are many people attempt to chain applications together. The key thing is to check the logs of each one to see which is failing. You should be able to tell from the icecast logs whether an attempt is being made even it it is being rejected.

karl.

[Anonymous]

ok

Hmmm, dropped the s/w firewall, tried to run it and it's still not right

Currently the log is waiting for connections.

[karlH]

Again you seem to think that icecast is rejecting the connection. If you can see the icecast status page on the machine running the source client then it won't be a firewall issue. You need to focus on whether the source client is actually attempting the connection.

Would you think there's a problem with a web server if a browser does not request the web page from it?

karl.

[Anonymous]

From what I can see, I think the server is running perfectly, I'm just not convinced it's listening in the right place for a connection, and I'm a little lost as to what I need to change. I've gone through the xml documentation and it doesn't fully explain all of the permutations that you can use, and it's left me a little foxed

The other concern is the numbers that appear for 'connections', 'client connections' and 'file connections' seem to climb every time I hit F5, which makes me think something is awry.

[aaannnddd]

This is pretty late by now, but I'm stuck with the same problem. One thing that's been completely missed, however, is that in the Audio Recorder pane on the dashboard of Traktor, you have to click that little antenna-looking icon, which begins broadcasting.

Hope this helps!

edit: You also need to click the 'Rec' button, which I have just only realised you have to do. This has solved my problem!

[relen]

I must say that I've been obliged to give up on a similar issue for the time being. I'm running Traktor on a Macintosh and the workaround I took was simply to hijack Traktor's main audio output into NiceCast which then talks to the remote server. NiceCast of course supports mp3/Shoutcast streaming, which is what we all want Traktor to do natively.

I often need to do live voiceovers and having the mic come up as a deck in Traktor (using the BCD3000 mic pre) is a pain because it's only on one side of the crossfader: my approach is to stuff the mic and the Traktor output into an external mixer and then take the mixer outputs back into the computer and grab them with NiceCast.

You can do exactly equivalent things on the PC using similar Windows apps.

Downside: No metadata, and if anyone can suggest where you can look to pull metadata out of Traktor (ideally whether it is broadcasting or not), then do please let me know (though this isn't the place for it).

I'm actually using a remote Icecast server provider and my interest is getting an mp3 instead of an Ogg stream from Traktor into the remote server, because most people can't listen directly to an Ogg stream. I imagine I can ask our provider (who is extremely supportive) to set up stream transcoding at that end, but I'm not sure what to ask them to do.

Hope this helps,
--Richard E
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