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Today I decided to make a Online Radio Station using a free account on caster.fm. I decided that it wasn't anything to do with them and it was more to do with general Icecast 2.

I own a game server and there is a plugin to allow radio streams but in the format of M3U & PLS playlists not stream files. I know you can mount the stream onto the PLS/M3U but, it doesn't seem to work. I added this to a file I called listen.pls:

   [playlist] File1=http://shaincast.caster.fm:port/listen.mp3 Title1= Velocity FM

The port is specified in actual file.

But it doesn't seem to work. I understand PLS is only a playlist, could this be the cause?

Jonas
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  • "I decided that it wasn't anything to do with them" - what wasn't anything to do with them? – halfer Jun 04 '17 at 15:36

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You need some line breaks in your file. I'd also make sure you don't have a space after your equals sign... parsers for these INI-style files vary and can be a bit finicky sometimes.

[playlist]
File1=http://shaincast.caster.fm:80/listen.mp3
Title1=Velocity FM

You could also switch to M3U which is more broadly compatible (but it sounds like in your case you can handle either):

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,Velocity FM
http://shaincast.caster.fm:80/listen.mp3
Brad
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