Best way to stream mp3

Question

Hey guys,

I need to organize mp3-streaming from my machine to the rest of the world. People advised me to use MPD with Icecast2 as frontend. Everything is ok except one thing — music is being streamed as Ogg Vorbis, not what actually I need.

There's a snippet of MPD's config file:

audio_output {
    type                    "shout"
    name                    "Radio"
    host                    "localhost"
    port                    "8000"
    encoding                "mp3"
    mount                   "/radio.ogg"
    password                "mypass"
    bitrate                 "256"
    format                  "44100:16:2"
    protocol                "icecast2"
    description             "radio stream"
}

But, Icecast's status page says it's streaming ogg, not mp3. MPD's version is 0.13.2 running on Debian Lenny. What's wrong?

Any help will be appreciated.

P.S. I have LAME encoder compiled.

Answer 1

So my question is solved. I just compiled 0.15.2 version of MPD with --enable_shout and --enable_ffmpeg keys.