If anything, you guys have it backwards. I don't know what the Name field is used for.. but the Description is how you set the station name. That field is absolutely mandatory in order for shoutcast.com to properly tally the station's TTSL stat. If one DJ on my station has even a *slightly* different Description field, their show is not properly counted against the overall station's stats. Please see this image for a picture of where this information is configured inside the SHOUTCAST provided DSP Plugin: http://blog.b2netsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/yellowpages1.jpg
Of course, after I type this, I clicked the ticket link and I see that the Name field is how I set the station description.. odd... but I guess that works. :) Seems like to not confuse people it would make more sense for the shoutcast wrapper to use the Description field for the Description variable that is passed to Shoutcast..and to get rid of the Name field from the wrapper. But as long as it works(and I understand that), I'm good. :) Sorry about overlooking the -h option. :) *Makes mental note not to make that mistake again* Thanks for your help pointing me in the right direction Now.. to take what I've learned and get this streaming! :) Max On 10/11/2010 1:05 PM, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Yes, there was a bugreport about the fact that the description part of > the > operator was actually not used so we removed it: > http://savonet.rastageeks.org/ticket/341 > > Do you know if the description was actually used by shoutcast ? If so, we may > revert this change.. > >> and then it started complaining about >> bitrate. >> >> It appears that more has changed than the name of the >> output.shoutcast.mp3 function? > Yeah, sorry. More generally, everyting that was related to the encoding format > has been moved into the %format syntax, which is documented here: > http://savonet.sourceforge.net/doc-1.0.0-beta1/encoding_formats.html > > So, in your case, what you need is: > output.shoutcast(%mp3(bitrate=192), ...) > > Another remark now that I'm here is about mksafe; you can now set the > parameter fallible to true, this way: > output.shoutcast(%mp3(bitrate=192), fallible=true, ...) > And avoid using mksafe. In the source becomes unavailable, however, the output > will stop and start later when the source is available again.. > >> How do I continue to specify the yellowpages information for the >> station??? Even the example shoutcast.liq that you provide does not >> include these other required fields. It seems like at minimum your >> example shoutcast.liq and website need updated to reflect the proper >> FULL syntax for streaming to Shoutcast. > As usual, > liquidsoap -h output.shoutcast > will give you all the arguments of the function. In particular, you have: > > * genre : string (default "Misc") > * url : string (default "http://savonet.sf.net/";) > * name : string (default "OCaml Radio!") > * aim : string (default "") > * icq : string (default "") > * irc : string (default "") > > Do you need to send more informations ? > > Romain Sorry about missing that. I dont know why it didn't occur to me to check the -h lol. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
