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Icecast Hell (need tutorial/howto/guide)
Dear fellow human beings,
I've been undertaking the endeavor of installing an icecast server+icegen server for several hours but this is not going without trouble. As starters I'm forced to mix 'n match info from 3 different guides plus a load of random google hits and frankly I'm just hitting error after error. Now I've managed to install the icecast server and icegen server but am stuck with a "Configuration file does not exist" error and have exhausted pretty much every related google hit.
If someone knows a good newb friendly guide to install/configure icecast+icegen on centos 6 I'll might send you a virtual cookie 
Now I'm off bashing my head against the wall or something before my monitor takes the hit.
Kind Regards,
A fellow human being.
Comments
http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_webradio_with_icecast2_ices2
centos: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-a-streaming-audio-server-with-icecast-2.3.3-on-centos-6.3-x86_64-linux
thank you but I want to stream .mp3 not .ogg
second one has a title
Setting up the MP3 streaming client: icegenerator
I've never messed with Icegen, so forgive me for instead diverting your attention to Airtime, which may make your life easier.
FYI - we've got checks for monitoring icecast streams over at NodePing
Thank you all for your input, I've been messing with those linked tuts but Airtime is new and certainly looks interesting.
It just sucks you can do yum install icecast and then have to compile icegen from source >.<
I'll just give it another go on a fresh OS
Now I've gotten to the point where it's almost running. But when starting up icegen it gives back the error: Cannot connect to stream server. Fiddling around with hostname/ports configs didn't help either.
Is there someone who knows what this error exactly relates to?
Should the hostnames/ports of both the ice and icegen config file be the same or do I have to use a different hostname and/or port for each config file?
Got it working now thanks to Casius!
i used airtime, easy to install. for ices2, just use ices for mp3.
Airtime looks very interesting yes and will keep it in mind for future plans. About Ices I understood it no longer supports .mp3 due to it not being opensource, I could be wrong tho.
in ices/ices2 i can loop using text file. in airtime, you need to create entries every time
also, airtime uses a lot of memory. forgot how much. my guess around 400mb. icecast/ices very minimal ram
Installing icegen was worth the trouble then ^^