Can't make MPD stream MP3 through IceCast2

[Zat3r]

I have downloaded the MPoD app for iPhone because I wanted a media remote that works with a linux mediaplayer (can't believe I actually found one!) and it works fine. It also has the feature to receive a stream from mpd and play it on the iPhone which seems quite cool. The problem is that i can't set up the MPD to stream mp3 through icecast. The iPhone obviously can't play OGG since it's Apple.

I configured the audio_output lite this:

audio_output {
	type		"shout"
	encoding	"mp3"			# optional
	name		"MP3 Shout"
	host		"localhost"
	port		"8000"
	mount		"/mpd.mp3"
	password	"hackme"
#	quality		"5.0"
	bitrate		"128"
	format		"44100:16:2"
	protocol	"icecast2"		# optional
	user		"source"		# optional
	description	"My Stream Description"	# optional
	genre		"jazz"			# optional
	public		"no"			# optional
	timeout		"2"			# optional
}

And when i restart MPD I get:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/mpd restart
 * Stopping Music Player Daemon mpd                                                                                                                                          [ OK ] 
 * Starting Music Player Daemon mpd                                                                                                                                                 output: line 200: couldn't find shout encoder plugin "mp3"
Aborted

Since it's MPD that dies from lack of mp3-support I decided to compile it myself but I still get the same error. Here is the ./configure output:

########### MPD CONFIGURATION ############

 Client Support:
 IPv6 support ..................enabled
 TCP support ...................enabled
 Unix domain socket support ....enabled

 Playback Support:
 ALSA support ..................enabled
 FIFO support ..................enabled
 HTTP daemon support ...........enabled
 JACK support ..................disabled
 libao support .................disabled
 OSS support ...................enabled
 OS X support ..................disabled
 Pipeline output support .......disabled
 PulseAudio support ............disabled
 Media MVP support .............disabled
 SHOUTcast support .............enabled
 Solaris /dev/audio support ....disabled

 Streaming Encoder Support:
 LAME mp3 encoder ..............enabled
 Ogg Vorbis encoder ............enabled

 File Format Support:
 AAC support ...................disabled
 C64 SID support ...............disabled
 FFMPEG support ................disabled
 FLAC support ..................disabled
 fluidsynth MIDI support .......disabled
 MikMod support ................disabled
 MODPLUG support ...............disabled
 MAD mp3 decoder support .......enabled
 MP4 support ...................disabled
 Musepack (MPC) support ........disabled
 OggFLAC support ...............disabled
 Ogg Vorbis support ............enabled
   using tremor.................no
 Wave file support .............disabled
 WavPack support ...............disabled
 wildmidi MIDI support .........disabled

 Archive support:
 BZ2 archives support ..........disabled
 ISO 9660 archives support .....disabled
 ZIP archives support ..........disabled

 Streaming support:
 last.fm radio support .........disabled
 libcurl support (streaming) ...enabled
 libmms support ................disabled

 Other features:
 ID3 tag support ...............disabled
 libsamplerate support .........disabled
 Zeroconf support ..............disabled
 libcue support ................disabled

##########################################

Any ideas would be appreciated.

[MetalMusicAddict]

Just a note, I'm using streaming output directly through MPD now. (on Karmic)

Here's how.

In a terminal:

sudo apt-get build-dep mpd && apt-get source mpd

This will install the build-depends as well as download and extract the source archive for the ubuntu .deb.

Go into the extracted source dir and go into the debian/rules file.
You want the 'DEB_CONFIGURE_USER_FLAGS' bit to say:

DEB_CONFIGURE_USER_FLAGS += $(WITH_TREMOR) --enable-sqlite --enable-un --enable-ao --enable-lame-encoder

Update for Maverick. (note the end)

DEB_CONFIGURE_USER_FLAGS += $(WITH_TREMOR) --enable-sqlite --enable-un --enable-ao --enable-lame

Side note: While cd'd into mpd's extracted source folder, doing a "./configure --help" will show you all kinds of other options you can add/remove.

Then back in the root dir of the source folder do:

debuild binary

That should build you the same .deb you get from the repos but with .mp3 output enabled.

My /etc/mpd.conf bit for streaming looks like:

#
audio_output {
        type            "httpd"
        name            "MetalMusicAddict's Jukebox"
        encoder         "lame"                  # optional, vorbis or lame
        port            "8000"
        quality         "6.0"                   # do not define if bitrate is defined
#       bitrate         "192"                   # do not define if quality is defined
        format          "44100:16:2"
}
#

If you try this make sure to turn off IceCast and pin your compiled package in Synaptic.

[Zat3r]

I didn't get the httpd output to work. But the icecast did So at least it's working now. Thanks a lot!

[unimatrix]

Thank you MetalMusicAddict! This helped me a lot. I wanted to stream to a SHOUTCast server, but it would only accept mp3. Your solution worked like a charm!

[MetalMusicAddict]

Thank you MetalMusicAddict! This helped me a lot. I wanted to stream to a SHOUTCast server, but it would only accept mp3. Your solution worked like a charm!

np. For anyone else reading there's a good bit of packages we have that have the non-free bits turned off. (ie: FFMPEG) The above method can be used to recompile them. Just enable the right switches.

[kevinanchi]

Hey guys thanks for the information, as we are all under some Umbrella, here are my few cents

Configure MPD to be an Icecast Source

Edit /etc/mpd.conf and enable the Icecast audio_output by adding the following:
audio_output {
type "shout"
encoding "ogg"
name "my cool stream"
host "localhost"
port "8000"
mount "/mpd.ogg"

# This is the source password in icecast.xml
password "hackme"

# Set either quality or bitrate
# quality "5.0"
bitrate "64"

format "44100:16:1"

# Optional Paramters
user "source"
# description "here's my long description"
# genre "jazz"
} # end of audio_output

# Need this so that mpd still works if icecast is not running
audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "fake out"
driver "null"
}

[durand]

Thanks MetalMusicAddict, streaming to my android via MPDroid works perfectly now

[ikonitas]

Hello,

MetalMusicAddict I just did everything what is in your tutorial I am using ubuntu 10.10 ,

I am getting this error message :

output: line 221: No such encoder: lame

My mpd.conf

# An example of a httpd output (built-in HTTP streaming server):
#
audio_output {
    type         "httpd"
    name       "My HTTP Stream"
    encoder    "lame"        # optional, vorbis or lame
    port          "8000"
    quality      "5.0"            # do not define if bitrate is defined
#    bitrate     "128"            # do not define if quality is defined
    format        "44100:16:1"
}

before that I was building .DEB file in the end I got some warrnings :

dpkg-deb: warning: 'debian/mpd-dbg/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field 'Original-Maintainer'
dpkg-deb: building package `mpd-dbg' in `../mpd-dbg_0.15.10-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb'.
dpkg-deb: warning: ignoring 1 warnings about the control file(s)

Do you have any solution for this ?

Thanks

[MetalMusicAddict]

Update for Maverick. (note the end)

DEB_CONFIGURE_USER_FLAGS += $(WITH_TREMOR) --enable-sqlite --enable-un --enable-ao --enable-lame

@ikonitas - You .conf looks fine though you might wanna enable a stereo stream.

format        "44100:16:2"

Make sure you use the above switch and save your changes to the rules file before you compile.

[ikonitas]

Thanks MetalMusicAddict for your reply :

Its all working fine now
Just one thing I would like to allow mpd to stream his output to icecast2 ...