ROTFLMFAO
Thanks dude,
This issue is so frustrating ... I needed a good laugh.
if this was meant to be serious ... which I kinda think it was ... I will explain that a port has nothing to do with it as long as it has been properly opened in your router or firewall.
ports are just like pipes ... its just a path for the data to take ...
theres no such thing as a one way pipe just as theres no such thing as a one way port
When you set up shoutcast on port 1111 it gets its data on port 1112 as soon as the connections are made the 'direction' is established by the connection just as the direction is set by the pressure of the liquid in a pipe. So if you had a pipe connected at point A(in) and point B (out).. if the pressure starts at point B and travels to point A then its incoming. If the pressure starts at point A and travels to point B then its outgoing.
So when I start my server at Point A (my hardware) and it connects to point B (the internet) port 1111 and port 1112 open port 1112 starts sending data to point B so it is outgoing ... port 1111 starts listening for something coming from point B so it becomes incoming
Nothing changes by me putting the server on 1110 except for 1110 would be incoming and 1111 would be outgoing ... just a number just a pipe ... completely interchangable
This problem has already been established to be a problem with the Intro file.
If it is removed the station works fine on the new SHOUTcast site. It is now a problem with the SHOUTcast site and they need to fix their player
AGAIN
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But .. just to prove this I did change my port to 1110 ... no change to the way it worked on SHOUTcast. It's not a port issue. The station has run on port 1111 for almost 5 years. The station still works on everything but when using the new SHOUTcast web based player.
The reason you see the 8000 8002 and so on is because sc_serv uses two ports 8000 and 8001 so if you ran two servers you couldnt run them at 8000,8001 you would need to run them at 8000,8002 but you can just as easily run them at 7999 and 8001 as long as you leave 8000 for the 7999 connection and 8002 for the 8001 connection free
If you have a shoutcast1 server of your own ... when you start it look at the log... it will say something like :
portbase:8000
listening for connection on port 8001
even tho this seems confusing to me because ... since people use the portbase port to connect i consider the portbase to be the one 'listening for connections'