Hi there,
I'm trying to stream songs with icecast. On a remote machine, I'll open a network stream like this:
mplayer http://192.168.1.127:8000
vlc http://192.168.1.127:8000
In either case, the stream works when the song's playing, and it stays open when I'm seeking, or pause/playing. But when a song ends and goes to a new song, the stream also ends.
VLC has some pretty complicated (https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/gather/) commands (https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Command_Line_Examples/#Keeping_the_stream_open)commands to keep the stream open, but none of them work for me.
MPV supposedly has a way to keep a stream open, even if it pauses on the server:
mpv http://192.168.1.127:8000 --keep-open=always --keep-open-pause=no
But this doesn't work for me, either. Basically, no matter what I use to receive gmusicbrowser's stream, it closes as soon as a song ends.
I see on this forum that people have sucessfully used the icecast feature, so how do I make it work for me?
Would this be easier to configure on some other platform?