Icecast - Apr 2007 - Frustrated with Ubuntu XMMS, XMMS-Liveice, and icecast

I have XMMS and XMMS-liveice setup to use ALSA to stream audio to my 
icecast server using LAME encoding.

I start the sound file and i can see XMMS playing away happily, icecast 
detects the connection and shows the source as being connected, but no 
bandwisth useage. If I connect to the icecast server I get a client 
connection, but no sound.

Scanning other forums there appears that there might be an issue with 
XMMS-liveice, icecast, and ALSA. Does anyone know if this is the case?

Can anyone help me figure out what my issues might be?

If this is a poor way to send output audio from XMMS to my icecast 
server, can anyone suggest any other methods?

Thanks in advance!

NOTE: This is under Ubunty Dappy 32-bit.

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:41:30PM -0400, Kevin Jackey
wrote:
> I have XMMS and XMMS-liveice setup to use ALSA to stream audio to my 
> icecast server using LAME encoding.
> 
> I start the sound file and i can see XMMS playing away happily, icecast 
> detects the connection and shows the source as being connected, but no 
> bandwisth useage. If I connect to the icecast server I get a client 
> connection, but no sound.
maybe you should try to select a channel in the mixer as recording
channel. I prefer aumix to do this. aumix is a comandline utility based
on ncurses where you can navigate with the arrow keys. With space you
can select the necessary record channel. Which you have to choose
depends on your soundcard. With my Intel builtin soundcard I have to
choose PCM or Line1.
> Can anyone help me figure out what my issues might be?
read above.
> If this is a poor way to send output audio from XMMS to my icecast 
> server, can anyone suggest any other methods?
Yes, I use ices2 for streaming audio to servers with various music
players. I don't use xmms. For me its better to use programs like mpd,
mplayer or many other. ;-)

best regards
Frederic 'jchome' Jaeckel
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Kevin Jackey wrote:
> I have XMMS and XMMS-liveice setup to use ALSA to stream audio to my
> icecast server using LAME encoding.
>
> I start the sound file and i can see XMMS playing away happily,
> icecast detects the connection and shows the source as being
> connected, but no bandwisth useage. If I connect to the icecast server
> I get a client connection, but no sound.
>
> Scanning other forums there appears that there might be an issue with
> XMMS-liveice, icecast, and ALSA. Does anyone know if this is the case?
xmms-liveice was not working with icecast2 last time I checked and no
installing icecast 1.3.x is not a sane option at all(old, deprecated, etc.)!
I'd suggest getting a different source client like oddcast-v3

Cheers

Thomas