[RELEASE] Icecast (Music Plugin) Addon - Free internet radio alternative to SHOUTcast

Hey,

I've just come back to XBMC after a break, and have discovered this great add-on!

I have a problem, however. A station I like to listen to never comes up in any Icecast searches, I have to manually add a URL.

Can you ll me the location of the file I should edit to add the URL for this feed please?

Cheers,

Simon

Hi, Simon,

The idea of the add-on is to work with the list of servers supplied by the Icecast YP listing. There is no easy way to add it manually to the cache file, because the cache will be overwritten pretty soon (by default, its time-to-live is only 1 day).

It might be that:
- Your favourite server does not register with the Icecast YP, or
- It is on the YP, but the ad-on does not find it (for whatever reason).

Could you provide the URL (or PM it) so that I can check whether it is on the YP? Alternatively, open http://dir.xiph.org/yp.xml (it's a few megs, takes some time to load) and see if your URL is there.

If your favourite station is not on the YP listing, we'll probably come up with some suitable solution.

WWell,

Assen

I used the SHOUTCAST addon allmost every day and this addon is IMHO a very nice replacement for it ,-)
I used since it yesterday and works like a charm ;-)

Addon works great! Thank you

Cheers,
EG.

Hi!

First of all thanks for the plugin.Works Great!!!

I hope you are still supporting it.

I found the following problem while trying to play the stations from Android XBMC remote application

My setup:
Zotac ID11, OpenElec 0.99.5
Android XBMC remote app

In android remote application i can get inside the following menu Music->Addons->Icecast and see the list of genres and channels without the need to turn on TV.
When trying to play a station from this menu - remote hangs and cannot receive control commands until i restart xbmc.bin process
The following request is sent from Application:
I/Connection( 5346): "192.168.1.107:80/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=PlayFile(plugin://plugin.audio.icecast/?play=http://ogg2.as34763.net:80/a9160.ogg")


But the Android XBMC Application has another mode: Control Only - for which i need the TV to be turned on, and when i browse channels using (UP/DOWN/SELECT) everything works like a charm !

The following request is sent from Application:
sendButton(R1,"select",nongrep,down)

It looks like a plugin or xbmc player issue.
Can you please comment on that? Or if any other info is needed i can provide.

Regards,
Boris

Hi,

I'm 100% unfamiliar with the Android remote, but from your post I can conclude that the "remote" actually sends HTTP commands to XBMC, which in turn does some things that normally would require a keyboard action.

The plug-in does not have any code to specifically interact with the HTTP server; I can only assume that XBCM should try to transparently handle this.

In any case, a debug log might shed some light on what is actually happening. Can you provide us one?

WWell,

Hi!
The following are the links to the debug logs i recorded:

There are 2 types of entries that i see in Android remote - "directory" and direct channel link (i see Music icon)
The following log is when i attempted to play directory
http://pastebin.com/CvrxL6r3

Playing channel.
http://pastebin.com/SU1LpgFj


Regards,
Boris

I just installed the Icecast plug-in. But I get horrible lagging of the graphics, really jerky. The scrolling text of the channel right after I select to play it freezes for a second every other second. And the visualization screensaver is jumpy too.

Anyone know a fix for this? I'm using v10.1 for Windows. Everything else works fine, like when I play an MP3 and the screensaver starts, watch a movie, scrolling movie list, etc. It just seems it's something with XBMC itself.

Any chance of adding a favorites menu internal to the Icecast plugin? Using XBMC's favorites is not ideal.

Sorry, can someone tell me where/how to install this? A few posts back assen said it was available from the XBMC repo, but I had a look there and don't see it.