Icecast - Jul 2005 - ices2 "crashes" respectivley produces hissing

Hello list!

I've recently installed icecast2 and ices2 on my Debian Sarge box, to
stream some musik for my local network. Basically, it just runs fine,
using my soundcard / ALSA as audio source. Unfortunately, there is one
BIG problem: after a certain amount of time (varies, can be a few
minutes up to an hour or so), ices2 just "crashes", thus producing a
terrible noise on the client(s) receiving the stream. Strange enough,
apart from that it seems that everything is just in order, there is no
error message, and even song metadata (produced by XMMS an a small perl
script on the server) is still broadcasted by the the programme.

I would be really glad if someone could provide some help for my weird
problem! If needed, I've attached a copy of my ices2.xml to that message.

Thanks a lot!
Christian Leitold

I've just found out the problem also occurs when using darkice instead
of ices2. Therefore, I guess that icecast2 is actually responsible for
this strange behaviour.

Christian Leitold

Hi!

First of all, I want to remark that I've not received your message via
the list, I've only got your PM. (I post via the gmane mail-to-news
gateway).

Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>Have you made sure it is not your client?  I used to have strange
>problems when listening to streams w/ winamp5 that sound similar.  Now
>I use winamp2 or xmms.  I have plenty of friends who use winamp 5 w/o
>any problems though.
>-Aaron
>  
>
I'm absolutely sure. The problem occurs both on my Debian Sarge laptop
with XMMS and on another box running Windows XP and Winamp.

 - Christian Leitold

[This is a reply to a PM written by Aaron Wolfe]

Hi!

First of all, I want to remark that I've not received your message via
the list, I've only got your PM. (I post via the gmane mail-to-news
gateway).

Aaron Wolfe wrote:

>>Have you made sure it is not your client?  I used to have strange
>>problems when listening to streams w/ winamp5 that sound similar.  Now
>>I use winamp2 or xmms.  I have plenty of friends who use winamp 5 w/o
>>any problems though.
>>-Aaron
>>
>>
I'm absolutely sure. The problem occurs both on my Debian Sarge laptop
with XMMS and on another box running Windows XP and Winamp.

 - Christian Leitold

On 7/18/05, Christian Leitold <linux@leitold.info>
wrote:
> I've just found out the problem also occurs when using darkice instead
> of ices2. Therefore, I guess that icecast2 is actually responsible for
> this strange behaviour.
This couldn't possibly be icecast's fault - icecast itself doesn't,
and can't, do any processing of audio.

Given that it happens with multiple source clients, it really sounds
like a problem with your sound drivers, though I couldn't suggest
what, specifically.

Mike