I'm new to streaming or music hearing over the wire, I still prefer my old-fashioned stereo equipment :-) But a friend asked me to setup a shoutcast server for him, so I went out and installed it, played a bit with it and didn't like it. So I looked for an open source alternative and found Icecast. Installed fine, works fine. But there is one thing which puzzles me and I hope someone can shed some light on it. It seems that Winamp on Windows has a problem with mp3 streams coming from my Icecast server. It stays forever at "0% Buffering". I cannot find much about this when searching around. Sometimes it's mentioned that this can indicate that the max listeners are reached. However, that's not the case here and I can listen to the stream with foobar2000 and Windows Media Player at the same time just fine. The source client doesn't seem to play a role either. I streamed with Winamp, both with the shoutcast and with the oddcast plugin, and my friend uses Nicecast on the Mac. But non of the listeners with Winamp get a tone. I can listen fine using ogg vorbis with the oddcast plugin. When I first had the shoutcast server running I only tested "on demand" streaming with mp3, that worked as well. But any mp3 stream going over that Icecast server makes Winamp just sit there. My Winamp version is 5.something, downloaded just a few days ago. Any hints why Winamp might not like it? (BTW: there's no "on demand" streaming from a local directory in Icecast like you can do in Shoutcast, correct?) Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org
make sure that your mountpoint does not have a .ogg extention with the mp3 stream, otherwise, it will try to play using the ogg plugin, and will stay at 0% buffer On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:45:09 +0100, Kai Schaetzl <maillists@conactive.com> wrote:> I'm new to streaming or music hearing over the wire, I still prefer my > old-fashioned stereo equipment :-) > But a friend asked me to setup a shoutcast server for him, so I went out > and installed it, played a bit with it and didn't like it. So I looked for > an open source alternative and found Icecast. Installed fine, works fine. > But there is one thing which puzzles me and I hope someone can shed some > light on it. It seems that Winamp on Windows has a problem with mp3 > streams coming from my Icecast server. It stays forever at "0% Buffering". > I cannot find much about this when searching around. Sometimes it's > mentioned that this can indicate that the max listeners are reached. > However, that's not the case here and I can listen to the stream with > foobar2000 and Windows Media Player at the same time just fine. The source > client doesn't seem to play a role either. I streamed with Winamp, both > with the shoutcast and with the oddcast plugin, and my friend uses > Nicecast on the Mac. But non of the listeners with Winamp get a tone. I > can listen fine using ogg vorbis with the oddcast plugin. When I first had > the shoutcast server running I only tested "on demand" streaming with mp3, > that worked as well. But any mp3 stream going over that Icecast server > makes Winamp just sit there. > My Winamp version is 5.something, downloaded just a few days ago. > Any hints why Winamp might not like it? > > (BTW: there's no "on demand" streaming from a local directory in Icecast > like you can do in Shoutcast, correct?) > > Kai > > -- > Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany > Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com > IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org > > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast >
Darrell Dominey wrote on Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:31:04 -0330:> make sure that your mountpoint does not have a .ogg extention with the > mp3 stream, otherwise, it will try to play using the ogg plugin, and > will stay at 0% buffer >Hi, thanks for the quick answer. We are serving the mp3s with .nsv endings since that is what the oddcast plugin seems to send by default when mp3 is used and no mount point specified (it then sends with "live.nsv" if I remember this correctly). Should Winamp be able to handle .nsv or should I change this to .mp3 f.i.? Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org
Kai Schaetzl wrote:> (BTW: there's no "on demand" streaming from a local directory in Icecast > like you can do in Shoutcast, correct?)I assume you're looking for something like what fileserve does. I've not messed with Shoutcast for so long that I really can't remember what that feature does, but if you enable file serving, you can put anything in the webroot (as defined in your config file) and Icecast will serve it like a webserver. Geoff.
Geoff Shang wrote on Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:24:25 +1000:> but if you enable file serving, you can put anything in the > webroot (as defined in your config file) and Icecast will serve it like a > webserver. >Ah, I see. I was indeed wondering if that could do what I was looking for, but I couldn't find anything about the fileserve in the documentation other than that short sentence in the config file explanation. Thanks! I was also wondering if I could just use Apache to distribute static files. It seems in a nutshell the Icecast server is more or less a normal http server, just that it accepts an extra SOURCE command and provides buffering. Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org