Icecast - Mar 2005 - Mountpoint problems...

I can't figure out exactly what to put as my Icecast webroot
directory, nor what to tell my Winamp Oddcast plugin to name as the
mountpoint.  I'm a n00b here and barely know what these words even
mean, lol, but I can get the Oddcast to log in to the Icecast and
people can go to the .m3u file I put into the mountpoint, but it
either just cycles songs or doesn;t play. I noticed that it only
transmits when my Winamp plays, but I basically ahve no idea what to
do.

Hi,

Ok.  clarification of terms here.

A mountpoint is simply what is used to differenciate one stream from 
another.  It doesn't physically exist until it is created by a source 
connecting to it, and unless you want to handle it differently from any 
other mountpoint, there's no need to define it anywhere except in the 
source client.

Here's an example (a simple one).  You and I have ownership in a co-located 
machine on a big pipe somewhere.  We decide that we both want to stream 
audio from that machine.  Since we both administer it, there's no harm in 
us both knowing the main source password.  So I configure my source to 
broadcast to ourserver.com port 8000 on mountpoint /mystation.ogg and you 
broadcast to ourserver.com:8000/yourstation.ogg.  These mounts are created 
when each of us connects and people can connect to them to hear the 
particular stream that's associated with them.

Note that you can set up mounts with different passwords or other 
parameters, check out the <mount> section in the sample configuration for 
more details, but it's only necessary to have a <mount> section if you
actually want any of these features.

the webroot directory is used for serving stats pages and also for serving 
any other content if you have fileserve enabled.  So if you put logo.png in 
your webroot directory, you can call it with http://server:port/logo.png

Hope this helps with the terms.

As for your broadcasts, perhaps begin by telling us exactly what you're 
trying to achieve and we'll take it from there.

Geoff.


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Re: [Icecast] 

Alright, basically I want to be able to broadcast a single stream of
what my Winamp is currently playing, so instead of having to send
people a song, they can just tune into my radio.  All attempts I've
made result in them not being able to connect and my Winamp to stutter
when it plays mp3's.  Even on lower bitrate settings, it still makes
my songs stutter.

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:36:58 +1000, Geoff Shang <geoff@hitsandpieces.net>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ok.  clarification of terms here.
> 
> A mountpoint is simply what is used to differenciate one stream from
> another.  It doesn't physically exist until it is created by a source
> connecting to it, and unless you want to handle it differently from any
> other mountpoint, there's no need to define it anywhere except in the
> source client.
> 
> Here's an example (a simple one).  You and I have ownership in a
co-located
> machine on a big pipe somewhere.  We decide that we both want to stream
> audio from that machine.  Since we both administer it, there's no harm
in
> us both knowing the main source password.  So I configure my source to
> broadcast to ourserver.com port 8000 on mountpoint /mystation.ogg and you
> broadcast to ourserver.com:8000/yourstation.ogg.  These mounts are created
> when each of us connects and people can connect to them to hear the
> particular stream that's associated with them.
> 
> Note that you can set up mounts with different passwords or other
> parameters, check out the <mount> section in the sample configuration
for
> more details, but it's only necessary to have a <mount> section
if you
> actually want any of these features.
> 
> the webroot directory is used for serving stats pages and also for serving
> any other content if you have fileserve enabled.  So if you put logo.png in
> your webroot directory, you can call it with http://server:port/logo.png
> 
> Hope this helps with the terms.
> 
> As for your broadcasts, perhaps begin by telling us exactly what you're
> trying to achieve and we'll take it from there.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> --
> Geoff Shang <geoff@hitsandpieces.net>
> Phone: +61-418-96-5590
> MSN: geoff@acbradio.org
> 
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