[icecast] Using ices or shout with continuously growing files?

Ted Lynn
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:23:12 -0000

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

----- Original Message -----
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?

> 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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