[PD] trouble with shoutcast~/icecast2 mp3 stream

[Iain Mott]

hi list

I'm trying to stream mp3 audio with shoutcast~/icecast2. Have followed
the Gentoo Howto as well as the shoutcast~ howto.

Everything seems to work fine, however when I try to connect to the
stream with a browser and xmms, the stream is saved to disk rather than
played by xmms. This happens on my local machine, but also on remote
machines attempting to connect (so i'm told by a reliable source using
both PC and Mac).

Should I be specifying some kind of playlist that references the
stream? 

Here are the messages sent to shoutcast~ in Pd:

mpeg 44100 64 0 5
icecast2
passwd mypasswd
connect localhost puredata.mp3 8000


Stats page http://localhost:8000/admin/stats.xsl looks pretty okay:

client_connections 9
clients 0
connections 10
server Icecast 2.1.0
source_client_connections 1
source_relay_connections 0
source_total_connections 1
sources 1
stats 0
stats_connections 0

(/puredata.mp3)
List Clients | Move MountPoints | Kill Source

audio_info bitrate=64
bitrate 64
listeners 0
listenurl http://zhongshuobeijing.dyndns.org:8000/puredata.mp3
public 1
type MP3 audio

Here's the error.log after running icecast and connecting with
shoutcast~:

[2005-05-09 23:58:52] INFO main/main Icecast 2.1.0 server started
[2005-05-09 23:58:52] WARN main/main YP server handling has been
disabled
[2005-05-09 23:58:53] DBUG slave/_slave_thread checking master stream
list
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] INFO connection/_handle_source_request Source
logging in at mountpoint "/puredata.mp3"
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG connection/connection_complete_source sources
count is 0
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG connection/connection_complete_source source
is ready to start
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG source/source_init Source creation complete
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node
connections (1)
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node
source_client_connections (1)
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG stats/process_source_event new source
stat /puredata.mp3
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG stats/process_source_event new node public
(1)
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG stats/process_source_event new node bitrate
(64)
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG stats/process_source_event new node
audio_info (bitrate=64)
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG stats/process_source_event new node listenurl
(http://zhongshuobeijing.dyndns.org:8000/puredata.mp3)
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node sources
(1)
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node
source_total_connections (1)
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG stats/process_source_event new node listeners
(0)
[2005-05-09 23:59:10] DBUG stats/process_source_event new node type (MP3
audio)

Access.log has the following after point browser to
http://localhost:8000/puredata.mp3 and opening with xmms (whereupon the
stream is saved to disk and not streamed):

127.0.0.1 - - [10/May/2005:00:02:36 +0000] "GET /puredata.mp3 HTTP/1.1"
200 141959 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20050227"
10

Have tried dropping the “.mp3” in messages sent to shoutcast~. Tried
adding :”.m3u” to the address passed to the browser. Nothing i've tried
works. Best I can do is stream the signal to disk.

Can anyone please suggest what i'm doing wrong? (note that both Pd and
xmms are using jack so it's nothing to do with audio being blocked)

cheers, Iain