MinimStreamer stops working after update

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The information about Icecast is in this section.

Here are a few reasons why MinimStreamer removes Icecast data:

1) Some players don't support Icecast. MinimStreamer doesn't know what player is being used, so it streams audio in a form that is guaranteed to work with all players.

2) Supporting Icecast is not just a matter of not removing Icecast data from the stream. It would require MinimStreamer to send correct Icecast HTTP headers to the player and it isn't easy to find a specification of what these headers should be.

3) The transcoding engine requires a pure audio data stream. Adding Icecast decoding to the transcoding engine would be a lot of work. Filtering out Icecast data before the transcoding stage avoids this issue.

4) MinimStreamer can make recordings of radio streams. Icecast data would need to be removed from these recordings as a) it is very unlikely that any player would support playing a recorded file containing Icecast data and b) seeking/scrubbing in the recorded file would require removal of embedded Icecast data. It is possible to listen in real time to a stream that is being recorded, which requires the listening stream and the recorded stream to be identical.

If you have a direct URL to the radio stream, you can access the stream using a playlist entry that doesn't include a stream ID. For example, the first stream in your list could be defined like this:

#EXTINF:-1, 100.5-das Hitradio
http://stream.dashitradio.de/dashitradio/mp3-128/stream.mp3

If you do this, MinimStreamer will not be used and the player will receive an unmodified stream from the radio station streaming server including any Icecast data.