Icecast - Dec 2005 - stupid user tricks with ices2: "No such file or directory" :P

I must be doing something really stupid.

I've read the docs for icecast2 and ices2. Icecast2 is running fine; I can
get stats.xml and see that it is running.

When I run ices2, I get the following error in ices.log:
...
[2005-12-07  05:37:51] INFO playlist-basic/playlist_basic_get_next_filename
Loading playlist from file "/home/john/playlist.txt"
[2005-12-07  05:37:51] WARN playlist-builtin/playlist_read Error opening
file "Vistors.ogg": No such file or directory
...

And I've made playlist.txt as simple as I can:

playlist.txt:
/home/john/Visitors.ogg

Yes, there is a file called Visitors.ogg in /home/john. I can play the file
just fine in Zinf.

Does ices2 expect .ogg files to be in another specific directory? From
reading the docs, the path to the .ogg files are specified in the playlist
file.

Any ideas? Suggestions?

Thanks for your help.

John Hebert
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On 12/7/05, John Hebert <metanoid at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I must be doing something really stupid.
>
> I've read the docs for icecast2 and ices2. Icecast2 is running fine; I
can
> get stats.xml and see that it is running.
>
> When I run ices2, I get the following error in ices.log :
> ...
> [2005-12-07  05:37:51] INFO
> playlist-basic/playlist_basic_get_next_filename Loading
> playlist from file "/home/john/playlist.txt"
> [2005-12-07  05:37:51] WARN playlist-builtin/playlist_read Error opening
> file " Vistors.ogg": No such file or directory
> ...
>
> And I've made playlist.txt as simple as I can:
>
> playlist.txt:
> /home/john/Visitors.ogg
Are you sure you've got IceS opening the playlist file you think you
do? I'd expect that the error message, if you got one, would refer to
"/home/john/Visitors.ogg", rather than just the last bit.

Also, in whatever file it IS reading, there appears to be a leading
space in the filename, it's trying to open " Vistors.ogg" rather
than
"Visitors.ogg".

Mike

John Hebert wrote:
> I must be doing something really stupid.
> 
> I've read the docs for icecast2 and ices2. Icecast2 is running fine; I
can
> get stats.xml and see that it is running.
> 
> When I run ices2, I get the following error in ices.log:
> ...
> [2005-12-07  05:37:51] INFO playlist-basic/playlist_basic_get_next_filename
> Loading playlist from file "/home/john/playlist.txt"
> [2005-12-07  05:37:51] WARN playlist-builtin/playlist_read Error opening
> file "Vistors.ogg": No such file or directory
> ...
> 
> And I've made playlist.txt as simple as I can:
> 
> playlist.txt:
> /home/john/Visitors.ogg
> 
> Yes, there is a file called Visitors.ogg in /home/john. I can play the file
> just fine in Zinf.
> 
> Does ices2 expect .ogg files to be in another specific directory? From
> reading the docs, the path to the .ogg files are specified in the playlist
> file.
> 
> Any ideas? Suggestions?
If /home/john/playlist.txt has full paths to the ogg files then the 
error message saying 'No such file or directory' would also have a full 
path, which the one above does not.  Make absolutely sure that you have 
the right playlist.	

karl.

Michael and Karl,

Thanks for your replies.

Sorry for confusing you with bad test info. The contents of
playlist.txtthat I referred to in my earlier email did not match the
log result I
specified. However, I had ran the test with both a full and relative path in
playlist.txt; "/home/john/Visitors.ogg" and "Visitors.ogg".

Got it working, however. Tried playing a different ogg file than
Visitors.ogg and it worked!!! If you want to test the file
Visitors.oggyourself:
http://www.archive.org/download/Shapeshifting_In_Abalone/Visitors.ogg

My understanding of the encoding section in ices2.xml is that ices2 simply
tries to output the given ogg file with the supplied encoding parameters to
icecast.

Question: The encoding parameters in ices2.xml do not have to match the
encoding bitrates for the played file, correct?

I assume the answer is no, as the ogg file that worked was encoded with the
same sampling rate as Visitors.ogg.

Thanks again for your help. I will be creating a streaming radio station
soon. Pumped!

John Hebert


On 12/9/05, Karl Heyes <karl@xiph.org> wrote:
>
> John Hebert wrote:
> > I must be doing something really stupid.
> >
> > I've read the docs for icecast2 and ices2. Icecast2 is running
fine; I
> can
> > get stats.xml and see that it is running.
> >
> > When I run ices2, I get the following error in ices.log:
> > ...
> > [2005-12-07  05:37:51] INFO
> playlist-basic/playlist_basic_get_next_filename
> > Loading playlist from file "/home/john/playlist.txt"
> > [2005-12-07  05:37:51] WARN playlist-builtin/playlist_read Error
opening
> > file "Vistors.ogg": No such file or directory
> > ...
> >
> > And I've made playlist.txt as simple as I can:
> >
> > playlist.txt:
> > /home/john/Visitors.ogg
> >
> > Yes, there is a file called Visitors.ogg in /home/john. I can play the
> file
> > just fine in Zinf.
> >
> > Does ices2 expect .ogg files to be in another specific directory? From
> > reading the docs, the path to the .ogg files are specified in the
> playlist
> > file.
> >
> > Any ideas? Suggestions?
>
> If /home/john/playlist.txt has full paths to the ogg files then the
> error message saying 'No such file or directory' would also have a
full
> path, which the one above does not.  Make absolutely sure that you have
> the right playlist.
>
> karl.
>
>
>
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This is pretty obvious but are the directory /home/john and the ogg file 
readable by the user ices2 runs under?

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, John Hebert wrote:
> I must be doing something really stupid.
>
> I've read the docs for icecast2 and ices2. Icecast2 is running fine; I
can
> get stats.xml and see that it is running.
>
> When I run ices2, I get the following error in ices.log:
> ...
> [2005-12-07  05:37:51] INFO playlist-basic/playlist_basic_get_next_filename
> Loading playlist from file "/home/john/playlist.txt"
> [2005-12-07  05:37:51] WARN playlist-builtin/playlist_read Error opening
> file "Vistors.ogg": No such file or directory
> ...
>
> And I've made playlist.txt as simple as I can:
>
> playlist.txt:
> /home/john/Visitors.ogg
>
> Yes, there is a file called Visitors.ogg in /home/john. I can play the file
> just fine in Zinf.
>
> Does ices2 expect .ogg files to be in another specific directory? From
> reading the docs, the path to the .ogg files are specified in the playlist
> file.
>
> Any ideas? Suggestions?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> John Hebert
>
Robert Muchnick
Xenterra.net
720-276-7917
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