Icecast - Aug 2004 - Status.xsl not displaying everything

Hi guys,

I've got the following set up:

- Linux SuSE 8.2
- Running: Icecast2
- Source Client: Ices0.3
- Stream Client: Winamp 5.0 in Windows XP

The following is happening:

- I've got Ices0.3 streaming MP3's with correct ID3-tags to the
Icecast-server
- Suppose the stream name is "Ovide's Radio"
- In the status.xsl page of Icecast2, I only see info about: mountpount,
stream type, no. listeners, current song playing and a link to the actual
stream.
- So Stream Name, Stream Genre, Stream Descritption and the Stream URL with
info about the stream is just not there!

So you could think: obviously Ices0.3 isn't sending this information... BUT!
Winamp5.0 displays the Stream Name ("Ovide's Radio") correctly in
it's
screen. Apparently, it's sent by Ices0.3 and correctly forwarded by
Icecast2. So why isn't it on the status-page?

Furthermore: sometimes (but that could also be winamp) the title of a song
isn't updated in Winamp, although it IS updated in the admin/status-pages of
icecast2 itself...

My question to you guys: what seems to be the problem here? I already went
to #icecast on Freenode and tried there, but we only could discover that the
headers sent from Ices0.3 were correct... So our guess now is that it's
Icecast2...

<p>Greetz,

Ivo

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when you compiled icecast, did you disable YP ?  the fields that you 
mention are really only used for YP listing, and so if you have explicitly 
disabled YP support, then they will not be kept track of in the stats tree...

oddsock
At 05:17 AM 2/3/2004, you wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>I've got the following set up:
>
>- Linux SuSE 8.2
>- Running: Icecast2
>- Source Client: Ices0.3
>- Stream Client: Winamp 5.0 in Windows XP
>
>The following is happening:
>
>- I've got Ices0.3 streaming MP3's with correct ID3-tags to the
>Icecast-server
>- Suppose the stream name is "Ovide's Radio"
>- In the status.xsl page of Icecast2, I only see info about: mountpount,
>stream type, no. listeners, current song playing and a link to the actual
>stream.
>- So Stream Name, Stream Genre, Stream Descritption and the Stream URL with
>info about the stream is just not there!
>
>So you could think: obviously Ices0.3 isn't sending this information...
BUT!
>Winamp5.0 displays the Stream Name ("Ovide's Radio") correctly
in it's
>screen. Apparently, it's sent by Ices0.3 and correctly forwarded by
>Icecast2. So why isn't it on the status-page?
>
>Furthermore: sometimes (but that could also be winamp) the title of a song
>isn't updated in Winamp, although it IS updated in the
admin/status-pages of
>icecast2 itself...
>
>My question to you guys: what seems to be the problem here? I already went
>to #icecast on Freenode and tried there, but we only could discover that the
>headers sent from Ices0.3 were correct... So our guess now is that it's
>Icecast2...
>
>
>Greetz,
>
>Ivo
>
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Part of the problem might be that several fields in the status.xsl file 
are named wrong:

name -> server_name
description -> server_description
description -> server_description
url -> server_url

<p>I have fixed these bugs and made other improvements (such as displaying
if a stream is public or not):

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njh/libshout-doc/status-njh.xsl

Just copy it to your icecast2's web directory.

<p><p>I have also fixed status2.xsl and written an XSL to output as
the
source XML:

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njh/libshout-doc/status-text.xsl
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njh/libshout-doc/status-xml.xsl

<p><p>To see my XSL changes in action:
http://kate.surge.soton.ac.uk:8080/status.xsl

<p>Cheers,

nick.

<p><p>On 3 Feb 2004, at 11:17, Ivo Grondman wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've got the following set up:
>
> - Linux SuSE 8.2
> - Running: Icecast2
> - Source Client: Ices0.3
> - Stream Client: Winamp 5.0 in Windows XP
>
> The following is happening:
>
> - I've got Ices0.3 streaming MP3's with correct ID3-tags to the
> Icecast-server
> - Suppose the stream name is "Ovide's Radio"
> - In the status.xsl page of Icecast2, I only see info about: 
> mountpount,
> stream type, no. listeners, current song playing and a link to the 
> actual
> stream.
> - So Stream Name, Stream Genre, Stream Descritption and the Stream URL 
> with
> info about the stream is just not there!
>
> So you could think: obviously Ices0.3 isn't sending this 
> information... BUT!
> Winamp5.0 displays the Stream Name ("Ovide's Radio")
correctly in it's
> screen. Apparently, it's sent by Ices0.3 and correctly forwarded by
> Icecast2. So why isn't it on the status-page?
>
> Furthermore: sometimes (but that could also be winamp) the title of a 
> song
> isn't updated in Winamp, although it IS updated in the 
> admin/status-pages of
> icecast2 itself...
>
> My question to you guys: what seems to be the problem here? I already 
> went
> to #icecast on Freenode and tried there, but we only could discover 
> that the
> headers sent from Ices0.3 were correct... So our guess now is that it's
> Icecast2...
>
>
> Greetz,
>
> Ivo
>
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> To verify everything is ok with your metadata go to
> http://$youricecastserverip:$yourport/admin/stats.xsl
> or if you like plain XML
> http://$youricecastserverip:$yourport/admin/stats.xml
Stream name, genre, description and url are NOT present here also! I've got
the feeling that we're isolating the problem here, so that's fine...
but: if
the stream name doesn't show up in the stats/status, why DOES it show up in
the streaming client?

Greetz,

Ivo

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> when you compiled icecast, did you disable YP ?  the fields 
> that you mention are really only used for YP listing, and so 
> if you have explicitly disabled YP support, then they will 
> not be kept track of in the stats tree...
Nope, I just compiled it with the standard ./configure;make;make install.
And - correct me if I'm wrong - YP is enabled by default... What else could
be the problem?

Greetz,

Ivo 

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Hi Ivo,
> The following is happening:
> 
> - So Stream Name, Stream Genre, Stream Descritption and the Stream URL
> with
> info about the stream is just not there!
I don't know the dev-status right now, but I'd say this is not a bug
it's a feature. ;) explanation follows later on.
> My question to you guys: what seems to be the problem here? I already went
> to #icecast on Freenode and tried there, but we only could discover that
> the
> headers sent from Ices0.3 were correct... So our guess now is that it's
> Icecast2...
I bet everything is ok. 

To verify everything is ok with your metadata go to
http://$youricecastserverip:$yourport/admin/stats.xsl
or if you like plain XML
http://$youricecastserverip:$yourport/admin/stats.xml

As you will probably see your metadata is 100% complete.

So why doesn’t status.xsl show it? Well IIRC at the time this xslt was written
this was the only available metadata through the status.xml file.

As a coincidence on the icecast-dev mailing list there is a discussion underway
about all xslt's provided by the server. If you want to have this metadata
instantly on your server read my last post to the list through the xiph.org
mailing list archive. There you'll find some basic advice how to edit your
status.xsl .

If you have any problems with that report them to this list or if they are very
specific to your server PM me.

regards 

Thomas

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