On Demand Playlists Not Working??

[jleonard]

Have a winamp saved playlist that I uploaded to my server's content directory. I can hit test files in that dir no problemo. But calling the playlist (test.pls) doesn't work and I get invalid resource. I know about starting server from parent dir and making sure syntax is right.

Any ideas? please help! and thanks...

[daverafa]

same crap happening with me, whats the deal?!

[cp_joker]

hey.. i am getting the same problem.. have you figured it out.. can someone help me.

when i go to click on my music.pls, (in place of music.mp3, like it says to do) I get Invalid Resource.


please help

[mayshar]

Here it gets even funnier... I've got one .pls file that does work just like its supposed to, the thing is it has only one file in it.. two others that I've tried -that link to more than one file- give me the same sort of problems you people have been reporting.
maybe this is some sort of clue....
*twilight zone theme song playing in the background*

-gilad

[Tom]

As far as I know you can not call an actual playlist in the content directory. See the problem is that the On Demand feature has you pass a playlist to call a single mp3. So a call to http://127.0.0.1:8000/content/scpromo.pls will translate into a request for a .mp3 named scpromo. So there is no way to request a playlist since the playlist gets translated into a request for a file (does that make sense, it was kind of wordy?) My guess as to mayshar's situation was that he had a filed called test.mp3 and made a playlist called test.pls and when shoutcast got the request for test.pls it translated it to test.mp3 and it player that file.

And cp_joker your problem is most likely that Shoutcast is not being started from the directory with the content folder. Check this thread for more info: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=40899


Tom

[cp_joker]

Okay,

Thanks for the help-- i've got that going well now. My next question is, my mp3's are laid out like this

D:/song archive/(artist)/(song)

now, I installed shoutcast to the song archive directory.. all the files are there. Shoutcast won't go into the subdirectories. Can you help me? I remember seeing somewhere saying it won't let you. Do you know of ANY ways that I can change that, or make it work, rather than copying all of the files to the root directory. (I've got 1800+ mp3's and I just don't want to throw them into a cluster fuck.. Thank you.

Robert

[jleonard]

So are we saying that there is currently no way for a multi file playlist to be used with the server?? That is hard to believe. Even Real has that and they suck. Hopefully somebody can offer up a server side solution to having on demand playlists...

[ALTERadio]

What do you expect for free?? We'd all like different features but we make the best use out of the tools that are provided to us "free of charge". I'm sure, one day, some way it will be done, but my experience with any "ShoutCast" developers out there has been very negative.

Spread the Lov*E*

[mayshar]

If the .PLS file can only link to ONE mp3 file that has exactly the *same* name, then what is this feature exactly for? Uhrg. Making .PLS files that would be able to stream a few files in a row isn't too much to request.. It shouldn't be too complicated to code either.. I mean, it shouldn't be *much* different than streaming one mp3 file, just a couple of them at a row... making the server see a request for a few files at a sequence and just stream them one by one...

*shrug*

oh, and I've got a problem quite similiar as described before with the /mp3/(artist)/(album)/(song name) arrangment, with over 2,000 mp3s sorted out in this manner - and rearranging them all together in a /mp3/content/ dir (when my httpd server is located at /mp3/) sounds like something i'll pass for the risk of somehow (and i didn't really understand how) somebody will flood my SHOUTcast server.

*shrug*

-gilad