Icecast - Jun 2015 - Question about Icecast2 when not streaming

Hello again.

  Thanks for the help, everyone. I'm trying to configure a fallback
mount, but I can't seem to get the file to play. Here's what I have in
my configuration file for the mount.

        <mount-name>/stream.mp3</mount-name>
        <fallback-mount>/StreamWarning.mp3</fallback-mount>
        <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
    </mount>

I'm not entirely sure where to store the "StreamWarning.mp3 file,
since I'm still quite new to Linux, and don't know what
"webroot"
refers to. I've tried several places, including /var/www/html which is
where my Nginx files are located. Do any of you know what I might be
doing wrong?

  Once again, thanks for all your help. Like I said, I just started
messing around with Debian last week.

That one stumbled me, too. I'm on a Windows machine so my webroot is in 
a different location. But according to 
http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.1/config-file.html, the path to 
webroot is in your icecast.xml file, i.e.,

    webroot:
    This path specifies the base directory used for all static file
    requests. This directory can contain all standard file types
    (including mp3s and ogg vorbis files). For example, if webroot is
    set to /var/share/icecast2, and a request for
    http://server:port/mp3/stuff.mp3 comes in, then the file
    /var/share/icecast2/mp3/stuff.mp3 will be served.


In my icecast install directory are a few other sub-folders, one of 
which is named "web" and if I tell Icecast to play a file called 
/foo.mp3 and put it in the web sub-folder, Icecast seems to find it.

-- 
that Jack Elliott
541 848 7021
Producer Wednesday Point, Host, The Sunday Classics
KPOV 88.9, High Desert Radio
Audio geek

On 06/03/2015 01:28 PM, Kyle Blizzard wrote:
> Hello again.
>
>    Thanks for the help, everyone. I'm trying to configure a fallback
> mount, but I can't seem to get the file to play. Here's what I have
in
> my configuration file for the mount.
>
>          <mount-name>/stream.mp3</mount-name>
>          <fallback-mount>/StreamWarning.mp3</fallback-mount>
>          <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
>      </mount>
>
> I'm not entirely sure where to store the "StreamWarning.mp3 file,
> since I'm still quite new to Linux, and don't know what
"webroot"
> refers to. I've tried several places, including /var/www/html which is
> where my Nginx files are located. Do any of you know what I might be
> doing wrong?
>
>    Once again, thanks for all your help. Like I said, I just started
> messing around with Debian last week.
> _______________________________________________
> Icecast mailing list
> Icecast at xiph.org
> http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast
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I see. I'm not sure how I keep missing things in the Icecast docs.
I'll give that location a try.

Thanks

On 6/3/15, Jack Elliott 541 848 7021 <thatjackelliott at kpov.org>
wrote:
> That one stumbled me, too. I'm on a Windows machine so my webroot is in
> a different location. But according to
> http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.1/config-file.html, the path to
> webroot is in your icecast.xml file, i.e.,
>
>     webroot:
>     This path specifies the base directory used for all static file
>     requests. This directory can contain all standard file types
>     (including mp3s and ogg vorbis files). For example, if webroot is
>     set to /var/share/icecast2, and a request for
>     http://server:port/mp3/stuff.mp3 comes in, then the file
>     /var/share/icecast2/mp3/stuff.mp3 will be served.
>
>
> In my icecast install directory are a few other sub-folders, one of
> which is named "web" and if I tell Icecast to play a file called
> /foo.mp3 and put it in the web sub-folder, Icecast seems to find it.
>
> --
> that Jack Elliott
> 541 848 7021
> Producer Wednesday Point, Host, The Sunday Classics
> KPOV 88.9, High Desert Radio
> Audio geek
>
> On 06/03/2015 01:28 PM, Kyle Blizzard wrote:
>> Hello again.
>>
>>    Thanks for the help, everyone. I'm trying to configure a
fallback
>> mount, but I can't seem to get the file to play. Here's what I
have in
>> my configuration file for the mount.
>>
>>          <mount-name>/stream.mp3</mount-name>
>>         
<fallback-mount>/StreamWarning.mp3</fallback-mount>
>>          <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
>>      </mount>
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure where to store the "StreamWarning.mp3
file,
>> since I'm still quite new to Linux, and don't know what
"webroot"
>> refers to. I've tried several places, including /var/www/html which
is
>> where my Nginx files are located. Do any of you know what I might be
>> doing wrong?
>>
>>    Once again, thanks for all your help. Like I said, I just started
>> messing around with Debian last week.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Icecast mailing list
>> Icecast at xiph.org
>> http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast
>
>