Icecast Streaming Media Server

[razametal]

Hi,

I've icecast 2.3.2 with two mountpoints (/radio1 and /radio2) when /radio1 is the main mountpoint and /radios2 is the fallback mountpoint.

For /radio1 I'm using edcast and windows to stream mp3, for the /radio2 mountpoint I'm using ezstream and debian to stream a mp3 playlist.\

Both mountpoints are working fine, when /radio1 is not streaming, /radio2 is listened as /radio2 but the trouble is the audio quality.

With edcast I'm using 40kbps at 22050 stereo and with ezstream I'm using the following settings:

[karlH]

the most obvious thing is that you are trying to use 44.1khz with ezstream. I'm surprised it actually does anything but it must be having serious loss on it.

You'd need to check the specifics but I suspect you should change to --resample 22050

The other aspect of this is that you cannot expect the players to be fine with a change in the format (over fallback), going from 22050 to 44100 and back again is a change in format, some players are ok with it, others are not.

karl.

[razametal]

Hi Karl,

Yes, changin the resample modifier to 22050 fix the quelity, both streams have almost the same quality now, edcast is still better
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[karlH]

well you are using the same encoder, edcast uses lame and so is your ezstream. Maybe there is a version difference or maybe there is some other setting involved making the difference. Either way, in theory, you should be able to get the exact same output from both of those.

karl.