Icecast - Nov 2005 - ices0, lame, and m4a

Ok, I don't know what I'm doing wrong here, so I
signed up to the mailing list.  Here's the situation:

I have an extensive music collection and have just
purchased an iPod.  I already have ripped a few of my
CDs (about 4Gb worth) in an mp3 format (previously had
an mp3 CD player), but I'm not planning to rip the
rest of my CD collection in an mp3 format.  At the
moment, I'm leaning toward AAC for file size, quality,
and iPod compatability, though I'm not sure it's going
to work.

As it happens, I also have a server on which I'd like
to stream my music library.  I'm running FreeBSD 5.4,
and have decided to use icecast.  I still need an
audio streamer, and I'd prefer to stream directly from
the command line.  Since the streamer needs to have
mp3 support for my currently ripped music, I'm
planning on using ices0 with lame support to allow for
the AAC files.

Here's the problem: I installed faad, lame, and ices0
without any problems... or so I thought.  I ripped a
CD with iTunes and uploaded the m4a file to my server.
 I set up the playlist, run ices, and I get a
segmentation fault.  Is this an issue with how iTunes
rips the CD?

Relevant installed ports (let me know if I missed
one):
faac-1.24_5
faad-2-2.0_5,1
flac-1.1.2
lame-3.96.1
libogg-1.1.2_1,3
libshout-2.1
libvorbis-1.1.1,3

I'm using Icecast 2.3.0 and Ices 0.4.  My question is:
how do I get AAC working with Ices 0.4?  Should I
consider a different streamer?  Or for that matter,
should I just forget using AAC and encode in mp3
(which I really don't want to do)?

Sorry this is a bit of a ramble; I've been working on
this for a few days, and it's driving me nuts.  I'd
appreciate any help anyone can provide me.

Johnny C.


		
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On Wednesday, 02 November 2005 at 13:17, Johnny Catbird
wrote:
> Ok, I don't know what I'm doing wrong here, so I
> signed up to the mailing list.  Here's the situation:
> 
> I have an extensive music collection and have just
> purchased an iPod.  I already have ripped a few of my
> CDs (about 4Gb worth) in an mp3 format (previously had
> an mp3 CD player), but I'm not planning to rip the
> rest of my CD collection in an mp3 format.  At the
> moment, I'm leaning toward AAC for file size, quality,
> and iPod compatability, though I'm not sure it's going
> to work.
> 
> As it happens, I also have a server on which I'd like
> to stream my music library.  I'm running FreeBSD 5.4,
> and have decided to use icecast.  I still need an
> audio streamer, and I'd prefer to stream directly from
> the command line.  Since the streamer needs to have
> mp3 support for my currently ripped music, I'm
> planning on using ices0 with lame support to allow for
> the AAC files.
> 
> Here's the problem: I installed faad, lame, and ices0
> without any problems... or so I thought.  I ripped a
> CD with iTunes and uploaded the m4a file to my server.
>  I set up the playlist, run ices, and I get a
> segmentation fault.  Is this an issue with how iTunes
> rips the CD?
how about a backtrace? and see if you get the same segfault reencoding
from other formats (eg ogg to mp3 or mp3 to a different bitrate).

the faad library had a file descriptor leak last time I looked at it,
but I've used it to transcode itunes-created files with ices before.
Not on freebsd though - and freebsd has traditionally been a lot more
finicky than linux.