derek, i want to personally thank you for effort in helping me resolve this 
issue, its people like you that make posting ?'s to this list worth while.
BTW  i found the problem, make playlist contained invalid characters, DUH!!.
once i removed the:
.
..
everything was beautiful, once again thanks so much and hacve a great weekend.

slr

On Saturday 21 July 2001 07:55 am, Derek A. Neighbors wrote:
> 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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