[PD] mp3cast~ again

Richard Lewis richardlewis at fastmail.co.uk
Mon Feb 19 17:22:05 CET 2007


On Monday 19 February 2007 16:09, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> hello Richard
>
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 15:15 +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
> > Hey there,
> >
> > I'm trying to use mp3cast~ with Icecast 1.
> >
> > Initially I had a patch where the settings messages ('passwd',
> > 'mountpoint', etc.) for the mp3cast~ were sent when the patch was loaded
> > and the 'connect' and 'disconnect' messages were sent in response to
> > other events. In this setup I got all the expected messages from PD but I
> > couldn't connect to the mp3 streams, my clients just said that Icecast
> > was returning a 404 error.
>
> [mp3cast~]'s output on the pd-window should give you a hint, whether it
> could connect to the icecast-server or not. if nothing tells you, that
> connection failed or something like that, i would assume that it could
> connect correctly and that the problem might be with the connection
> between client-app and server.

Yes, I can't see the patch window because its -nogui. But I can see pd's 
output and it now looks as though its connecting properly:

mp3cast~: connecting to port 8080
mp3cast~: logging in to IceCast server...
mp3cast~: logged in to localhost.localdomain
mp3cast~ : using lame version : 3.97
mp3cast~ : lame initialization done. (1)
mp3cast~: initialising buffers

>
> some random possible problems, that come to my mind:
>
> -did you try to connect the client on the right port (e.g.
> http://yourhost.com:8080/yourstream.mp3 ) ?
>
Yes, I keep checking this. Another things I might try is playing with the 
hostname setting in Icecast. Maybe just localhost isn't good enough and it 
might have to be the same as the hostname that clients give...

> -is the port not blocked by a firewall?
>
No, I've made sure that my computer can talk to port 8080 (and my test server 
doesn't have a firewall!!)

> > I wondered whether perhaps it might help if I sent all the settings
> > messages every time I sent 'connect' so I altered my patch. Now, it tells
> > me that I'm sending a "Bad Password".
>
> the only thing i know, is that before the [connect(-messages all other
> settings-messages should be sent.
>
> >
> > $ echo apassword | makepasswd --verbose --crypt --clearfrom=-
>
> hm.... my icecast-server (v2.3.1) has a configuration-file called
> icecast.xml, where the password is written in plain-text (the file is in
> xml-format). so no makepasswd and stuff is needed. i don't know if
> icecast.conf works differently.

Debian icecast is compiled with encrypted passwords option.

>
> > which seemed to work. I copied the encrypted version into my icecast.conf
> > file. I guess thats right?
> >
> > In PD, can you send send messages in any particular order? If so, would
> > it matter what order I sent the 'connect' and 'passwd' messages to
> > mp3cast~?
>
> yes, you can send the messages in a certain order in pd and yes, it DOES
> matter when sending the settings-messages to [mp3cast~]. first set all
> settings like passwd, mountpoint, bitrate etc and after this send the
> [connect blabla.com 8080(-message. you could put all settings-messages
> in one single message-box, separated by a ',' like for example:
>
OK, thanks. I don't think this is a password issue any more.

Cheers,
Richard
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