Icecast - Jul 2020 - Streaming SSL / HTTPS with m3u file

On 20 Jul 2020, at 1:12, Damian wrote:
> I solved the issue by adding my own m3u files to 
> /usr/share/icecast/web but I am not sure if this is icecast 
> best-practice. This also raises a few other issues as well… http 
> stream links don’t appear on the icecast stream directory and stream 
> titles and track metadata does not display when opening m3u files 
> created in this way.
Which player did you try this with?
> I assume that there are various reasons for this…mainly that https 
> connections are not really meant to be opened via m3u files, but 
> instead should be opened directly in the browser. Hoping to get some 
> confirmation on these suspicions.
>
>
>
>> On 18 Jul 2020, at 19:30, Damian <db76 at riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed icecast2 on Debian 10 via backports for buster so that I 
>> could get ssl support.
>> I’ve successfully configured iceacst to stream via ssl within the 
>> browser. No problems there.
>> For instance I can successfully open a https link to the stream with 
>> a URL like https://domain-name.net:8433/mountname 
>> <https://domain-name.net:8433/mountname>
>>
>> However, the same URL with .m3u at the end fails
>>
>> The issue seems to be similar to this thread ... 
>> https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server/-/issues/2323 
>> <https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server/-/issues/2323>
>>
>> When trying to open m3u or xspf stream links via the icecast 
>> status.xsl page, it gives errors. Hovering over the m3u or xspf 
>> stream links shows a https URL, but when opening the file in a 
>> client, it tries to play a http stream and fails. The actual contents 
>> of the file shows a http link to the stream rather than a https link. 
>> Seems to be something internal to icecast.
>>
>> The icecast.xsl config is set up for ssl as follows:
>>
>>    <hostname>IP address or domain HERE</hostname>
>>
>>     <!-- You may have multiple <listen-socket> elements-->
>>     <listen-socket>
>>         <port>8000</port>
>>         <bind-address>127.0.0.1</bind-address>
>>         <!-- <shoutcast-mount>/stream</shoutcast-mount>
-->
>>     </listen-socket>
>>
>>     <listen-socket>
>>         <port>8443</port>
>>         <ssl>1</ssl>
>>     </listen-socket>
>>
>>
>> Can you confirm whether the issue in the thread above has been 
>> resolved? … and is there something else I need to do in the config 
>> to avert this problem?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Damian
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> On 20 Jul 2020, at 1:12, Damian wrote:
> 
>> I solved the issue by adding my own m3u files to /usr/share/icecast/web
but I am not sure if this is icecast best-practice. This also raises a few other
issues as well… http stream links don’t appear on the icecast stream directory
and stream titles and track metadata does not display when opening m3u files
created in this way.
> 
> Which player did you try this with?
> 

I used VLC and Apple Music on Mac OS Catalina. I also tested it using VLC on
Debian 10.

On 20 Jul 2020, at 13:02, Damian wrote:
>>
>> On 20 Jul 2020, at 1:12, Damian wrote:
>>
>>> I solved the issue by adding my own m3u files to 
>>> /usr/share/icecast/web but I am not sure if this is icecast 
>>> best-practice. This also raises a few other issues as well… http 
>>> stream links don’t appear on the icecast stream directory and 
>>> stream titles and track metadata does not display when opening m3u 
>>> files created in this way.
>>
>> Which player did you try this with?
>>
>
>
> I used VLC and Apple Music on Mac OS Catalina. I also tested it using 
> VLC on Debian 10.
>
For https streams, VLC will not be able to show ICY metadata (used for 
example for MP3 or AAC streams)
due to a bug in VLC.
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