I have the following problem: I installed the icecast server, and I got it run.- it's opened 8000 port, but.. i have no idea how to reproduce music.- thanks of all Juan
Hi Icecast users, I'm implementing a stream with authentication. The basic's are working :-) like a dream! No I am at the point where I need to enter the user information (username and password). Since I have approx 200 users it would by nice if I could add this users in one blow instead of one by one? I have the users file available in a spreadsheet format. If not I have to do them one by one ...... Furthermore ... The mount I am serving is in the following format /stream2, and I am streaming in mp3 format. The link I will send to my users is http://streamserver/auth.xsl During the test phase I've had complains from users that the stream does not open or starts a download. I have seen this before on the "open" streams as well. My guess is that it in most cases depends on the users file association. By the "open" streams the easy way out is to let the user op the URL directly in their player. In the case of the "closed" stream the authentication makes things a little bit more difficult. Is there a way how I can minimize these issues for instance by changing the mountpoint into /stream2.pls or /stream2.m3u or /stream2.mp3 ??? Or do you have other recommendations ? Thanks in advance ! Ron -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 3-2-2005
If you want to play some music files from your hard disk, install "ices" and get that running too... Dan On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:55:55 -0300, Juan Bidini <jbidini@indaya.com> wrote:> I have the following problem: > > I installed the icecast server, and I got it run.- it's opened 8000 > port, but.. i have no idea how to reproduce music.- > > thanks of all > > Juan > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast >-- http://www.mcld.co.uk
Dear Juan, You need to feed the Icecast server with a source of audio information. You can either do this on the same machine with a package like ices or on a separate machine with for instance a winamp plugin for instance from oddsock. In any case the Icecast server will not serve anything without a feed. Maybe the following article will be useful for you http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7824/ur0306i/ur0306i.htm and/or http://www.yo-linux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialAudioStreaming.html All the best.... Ron -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 3-2-2005
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:01:45 +0100, Ron Blok <ronblok@wxs.nl> wrote:> Hi Icecast users, > > I'm implementing a stream with authentication. > The basic's are working :-) like a dream! > No I am at the point where I need to enter the user information (username > and password). > Since I have approx 200 users it would by nice if I could add this users in > one blow instead of one by one? > I have the users file available in a spreadsheet format. > If not I have to do them one by one ......It would be pretty simple to write a tool to do this, but there's nothing already existing, as far as I know. The authentication file format is simple, it's one user per line, formatted as username:hash 'hash' is the md5 hash of the user's password.> > Furthermore ... The mount I am serving is in the following format /stream2, > and I am streaming in mp3 format. > The link I will send to my users is http://streamserver/auth.xsl During the > test phase I've had complains from users that the stream does not open or > starts a download. I have seen this before on the "open" streams as well. > My guess is that it in most cases depends on the users file association. By > the "open" streams the easy way out is to let the user op the URL directly > in their player. In the case of the "closed" stream the authentication makes > things a little bit more difficult. > Is there a way how I can minimize these issues for instance by changing the > mountpoint into /stream2.pls or /stream2.m3u or /stream2.mp3 ??? > Or do you have other recommendations ?If you direct the users to /stream2.m3u, the server will automatically serve an m3u file pointing the user at the appropriate mountpoint. That's the recommended way to avoid problems with browsers. I'm not sure how this interacts with authentication with the common players, though. Mike
Juan Bidini wrote:> I installed the icecast server, and I got it run.- it's opened 8000 port, > but.. i have no idea how to reproduce music.-Like others have said, you've got to send it a stream for it to serve. It's like a radio transmitter - you can send to thousands of listeners, but you've got to send some sound to the transmitter otherwise they won't hear anything. To help us help you, tell us the following things: 1. Do you want to play recorded material or stream something live? 2. What operating system do you wish to do this from? Note that this does not have to be on the same machine as the server. 3. What format do you want to stream in (e.g. ogg vorbis, MP3)? 4. If you're playing pre-recorded material, what format is it in? Ok, that will do for a start. Geoff.