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shoutcast-compat
This optional flag will indicate that this port will operate in ’shoutcast-compatibility’ mode.
Due to major differences in the source client connection protocol, if you wish to use any
of the shoutcast DJ tools, you will need to configure at least one socket as shoutcast-
compatible. Note that when in this mode, only source clients (and specifically shoutcast
source clients) will be able to attach to this port. All listeners may connect to any of the
ports defined without this flag. Also, for proper Shoutcast DSP compatibility, you must
define a listen socket with a port one less than the one defined as ’shoutcast-compat’. This
means if you define 8001 as shoutcast-compat, then you will need to define a listen port of
8000 and it must not also be defined as shoutcast-compat. See the example config file in the
distribution for more info.
Using a PC Player to Listen
We will use the Windows Media Player 11 for our first test with the Steamcast server
configured as above. Open the player, right click, go to the File menu and select Open
URL.... This window will appear:
Enter the IP and port, then the stream name. Because the player is running on the same
machine as the server in this case, ‘localhost’ is entered as the IP number. Were you to
be listening on a another machine, you would enter the server’s IP number, like this:
http://198.168.1.107:9800/stream1.mp3. The stream name is the one that was configured in
the steamcast.conf file. Click OK .
After some buffering time, you should have audio. Normally, a user would not have to enter
the URL. Rather, this would be a link embedded in a web page.
We have tested MP3 streams with the WM player, Winamp, VLC player, Foobar, and
iTunes. AAC streams will work on the players that support AAC decoding, which are all of
the above except WM player.
(We’ve noticed that Winamp seems to have a bug playing ‘localhost’ URLs, but it works
fine on a remote machine.)
Hardware Players
You can also play the streams on a variety of hardware devices. We’ve tested with the
Logitech ‘Slimplayer’ and a few others. The device needs to support the codec you have
chosen. MP3 has universal support, with AAC decoding being available on only a subset of