hmmm....

One reason I suggested icecast was it was really easy to setup, was free 
and had good support.  Its been about 1.5 years since I setup.

I was disappointed, I went to thier forum and it seems to be down, and 
went to mailing list archive and the search seems broken. :(

Here is the forum:
http://forum.icecast.org/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

Here is the mail archive:
http://www.xiph.org/archives/icecast/masterindex.html

Here is how to subscribe to their list:
http://www.xiph.org/icecast/list.html

The also have irc channel on irc.openprojects.net port 6667 #icecast

I visited there and pasted your email.  Here was thier response..

<Vakor_> hi
<Vakor_> I'm not terribly familiar with either ices 0.x or icecast 1.x, 
but I can give you some ideas...
<Vakor_> Is that an error from ices or from icecast?
<Vakor_> If the former, then it's probably because the playlist file 
contains lines which list directories, rather than files (as well as 
normal lines giving files, of course).
<Vakor_> But I'm not sure, I mostly know icecast2 and ices2

I would drop thier list a line visit irc.  In the past they have always 
been prompt to respond.

-Derek

slr wrote:

>ok i took the advice of derek n. and grabbed icecast, got up and running and 
>streaming with util. ices. but i get this message right after connecting to 
>the server:
>
>Warning: Encountered error while transfering .. [ERROR: Is directory!]
>Streaming 4584048 bytes from file /blah/blah/blah/blah.mp3
>
>so it seems to be working, i can connect to it using XMMS. i was just 
>wondering if anyone may have a clue as to why i recieve this little annoyance.
>
>thanks in advance for any help.
>
>slr   
>
>On Friday 20 July 2001 02:55 pm, Derek Neighbors wrote:
>
>>Run icecast instead, http://www.icecast.org
>>
>>Derek
>>
>>On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, slr wrote:
>>
>>>i am trying to setup a shoutcast server on *nix*, pliminary configuration
>>>complete but when i try to connect:
>>>
>>>[dest: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] server unavailable, disconnecting
>>>
>>>faq is weak, so i come to you guys and gals.
>>>
>>>slr
>>>
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