Icecast - Aug 2004 - Using ices or shout with continuously growing files?

I also tried such things:

lxserv:/mnt/fatbass# tail -f recording.mp3 | /usr/local/icecast/bin/ices -M
stdinpcm -h localhost -p 40044 -P password
Logfile opened
Could not find a valid playlist file.
Ices Exiting...

In this case I try to KEEP READING the mp3 file (which becomes continuously
larger), and pipe it to ices (how should I do this?). But ices isn't nice to
me and keeps asking for a playlist, which doesn't exist in this case.

I'm pulling the hair out of my head, I'm already spending hours on this
simple aspect, reading every man-page I could find, I just can't get it to
work.

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I'd try making a playlist with just that file in it.  It should satisfy
Ices.  It won't even try to start without one.  Just an idea.

Ted

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From: "Marcel Bierling" <knaagdier@wanadoo.nl>
To: <icecast@xiph.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [icecast] Using ices or shout with continuously growing files?

<p>> I also tried such things:
>
> lxserv:/mnt/fatbass# tail -f recording.mp3 |
/usr/local/icecast/bin/ices -M
> stdinpcm -h localhost -p 40044 -P password
> Logfile opened
> Could not find a valid playlist file.
> Ices Exiting...
>
> In this case I try to KEEP READING the mp3 file (which becomes
continuously
> larger), and pipe it to ices (how should I do this?). But ices isn't
nice
to
> me and keeps asking for a playlist, which doesn't exist in this case.
>
> I'm pulling the hair out of my head, I'm already spending hours on
this
> simple aspect, reading every man-page I could find, I just can't get it
to
> work.
>
>
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On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 04:06:30PM +0100, Marcel Bierling
wrote:
> I also tried such things:
> 
> lxserv:/mnt/fatbass# tail -f recording.mp3 | /usr/local/icecast/bin/ices -M
> stdinpcm -h localhost -p 40044 -P password
> Logfile opened
> Could not find a valid playlist file.
> Ices Exiting...
> 
> In this case I try to KEEP READING the mp3 file (which becomes continuously
> larger), and pipe it to ices (how should I do this?). But ices isn't
nice to
> me and keeps asking for a playlist, which doesn't exist in this case.
just some ideas:

/dev/stdin as a file is always connected to the stdin of the running
process. so if you pipe something to ices, you could open /dev/stdin as
a file and connect the output of the pipe to the input of ices while
still specifing a file, when ices doesn't get its data from the stdin. now
there's a problem (i don't know about this) if ices wants a playlist
file (dunno how this one is parsed).
so try to open with -F /dev/stdin the pipe output as a playlist.

there are some chances that doesn't work, so put "/dev/stdin" as a
file in
a dummy playlist and try to open that.

HTH

 - regards, turrican
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