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November 10, 2004

ICYG Update

I put Icecast 2.1.0 in place last night and it was working great for Scotbuff and me. Besides the HTTP authentication working properly, the burst-on-connect feature seems to help the stream start playing more quickly. I'll probably play with the burst buffer size a little at home to see what works best.

The admin web interface of Icecast has been improved as well. With the required authentication, I can now see what user each active session belongs to, instead of guessing a club member by the IP address displayed in the interface.

Posted by Alex Harden on November 10, 2004 9:07 AM |

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Hate to break it to you, but it doesn't work for me on xmms under Linux. I still get the Auth Required error, even if I feed it http://user:pass@hostname:8000/blah.blah.blah...

Posted by: Don | November 14, 2004 1:13 PM

Hate to break it to you, but I didn't put a uname/pwd for you in the stream yet. ;) I assume you're wanting the same combo you use for FTP, so I've put that one in since I happen to know it.

Posted by: aharden | November 14, 2004 1:39 PM

Ah, that'd explain it.

Works in xmms - haven't tested Winamp 5 yet...

Posted by: Don | November 15, 2004 12:02 PM

It should - I've tried it with Winamp5 and FB2K. I was very pleased that they implemented it with standard HTTP auth - it made it a no-brainer to make the switch.

Posted by: aharden | November 15, 2004 12:44 PM

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