Icecast - Oct 2009 - Using MPD as an Icecast source (hint: using jack helps)

I thought I should report this: (In my case at least) defining a
"jack"
output for mpd caused a "shout" output to become operational.

I was trying to configure mpd with a "shout" output to feed my
Icecast2
server, but with no luck.

Giving up, I fell back to option 2: Feeding my mpd output to darkice using
"jack" as an interface.

As soon as I had defined the jack output in mpd.conf, the
already-defined-but-not-working "shout" output started working!

All I did was add the following to mpd.conf:
audio_output {
    type    "jack"
    name    "my jack device"
}

I am using mpd 0.14.2 (Ubuntu 9.04).

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:48:55AM -0400, johnlist at gulfbridge.net
wrote:
> I thought I should report this: (In my case at least) defining a
"jack"
> output for mpd caused a "shout" output to become operational.
sounds like an regression to me.
This bug appeared in mpd quite some time ago and was supposedly fixed.

mpd doesn't have a good record in terms of icecast2 support.
Last thing I've heard quite often was that streams generated by mpd and sent
to an icecast2 server made listener clients stop on song change.

still mpd is a very nice source client - once you get it working.

Cheers

Thomas