On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:45:39AM -0700, Bryan Koschmann - GKT wrote:> Has this changed within the past few months? I swear awhile back icecast2 > had no mp3 support, but then again I could be suffering from caffiene > withdrawal or something :)I agree--last time I asked, mp3 support was explicitly out of icecast2. In the last couple days, I got icecast2 working, and was pleasantly shocked to find that mp3 streaming support is also there. I now use darkice to send both ogg vorbis and mp3 to iceast2, and it works quite well. Only two processes to keep track of, and so far both are quite stable. Matt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: part Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 233 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/attachments/20030603/b7c076ca/part.pgp
icecast2 is a broadcast server and will broadcast both ogg vorbis and mp3 streams. This assumes that you have a source client which can produce an ogg vorbis and mp3 stream and send it TO an icecast2 server. With mp3 streams, shoutcast mp3 metadata is supported, however you cannot use the shoutcast DSP as a source stream to an icecast2 server. Current clients that we know about that can communicate with icecast2 : Unix Source clients : ices0.x (supports mp3 streams) ices2.x (supports ogg vorbis streams) darkice (supports mp3 + ogg vorbis) oddcast xmms plugin (supports mp3 + ogg vorbis) streamTranscoder (supports mp3 + ogg vorbis) Win32 Source Clients : oddcast winamp/foobar/tcmp plugin (supports mp3 + ogg vorbis) streamTranscoder (supports mp3 + ogg vorbis) If there are more, then please add to the list... oddsock At 11:34 AM 6/3/2003 -0700, you wrote:>Hi, > >Just wanted to clarify, can icecast2 not read OR broadcast any mp3, or >can it just not broadcast mp3 (but still play from a playlist)? I know the >quality would be dropped if it had to reencode them though. > >And what's up with that POS Winamp3, it doesn't even play gg streams?!? >I use xmms, but we have winamp3 on a demo computer, it just sits and keeps >prebuffering. I need something else for windows I think. > >Thanks in advance, > > Bryan > >--- >8 ---- >List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ >icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ >To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' >containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. >Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.<p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Geoff Shang <gshang@uq.net.au> said:> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, oddsock wrote: > > > shoutcast mp3 metadata is supported, however you cannot use the > > shoutcast DSP as a source stream to an icecast2 server. > > Why is this? This would seem somewhat to defeat the point of > including shoutcast-style stream support. >It's meant to work. I suspect there's some sort of subtle bug that means it doesn't. Since I don't have any windows machines to run scDSP on, I can't easily test/fix this. Since shoutcast's protocol is nasty and unspecified (it's sort of like HTTP, but horribly mutilated), I'm not really sure what the problem is. It'd probably be easily fixed if I had some network traces of what the shoutcast DSP does when connecting to icecast2. As an aside, the mp3 metadata support was primarily (originally) written to support _relaying_ of shoutcast servers - which is why it's at least somewhat useful even without shoutcastDSP working. Mike --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
At 09:33 AM 6/4/2003 +1000, you wrote:>On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, oddsock wrote: > > > shoutcast mp3 metadata is supported, however you cannot use the > > shoutcast DSP as a source stream to an icecast2 server. > >Why is this? This would seem somewhat to defeat the point of >including shoutcast-style stream support.there are a few things which prevent using the shoutcast DSP, first is the authentication. Shoutcast has it's own custom authentication protocol, that icecast2 would have to emulate. Secondly, updates for metadata are done via a URL call (/admin.cgi?mode=updingo&pass=password&st=MyMetadata) or something like this. This is also quite different than the way icecast2 has been coded to support metadata updates for mp3. So while it's quite possible to add Shoutcast DSP compatability, it is a matter of emulating a product that noone on this side of the fence is terribly fond of....And if there were no alternatives to the Shoutcast DSP, then maybe the answer would be different, but that is not the case... the shoutcast style mp3 metadata is a bit different however as there is really no other alternatives to providing metadata for mp3 streams. And believe me, it was added begrudgingly (as Mike will probably attest to).... oddsock <p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.