dustydrifter/altacast

AltaCast

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altacastStandalone v1 SC2 Support

Hi there.

Not really an issue however i would really appreciate help and even more so a resolution!

Is there anyway to get the Standalone version to have support for Shoutcast v2?
Or is there perhaps a newer version?

Have to run as admin every time

When installing the latest version of AltaCast from the website, and I install it with a computer with Windows Vista or later I have to run as administrator every time or the program will not save settings and work properly.
This is because it saves the settings in the program files folder, and User Account Control messes with that folder. Could it be made to save the settings in %appdata% folder, or even better be switched into a portable application so it can be moved around?

Connect to Icecast server programmatically

As far as I can see in the Winamp plugin, your choices are either clicking a button in the Altacast window, or setting it to connect automatically with some sane interval.

Is there no way to get the plugin to connect programmatically - via command line or something?

fb2k plug-in: crash with WavPack audio

Attempting to stream WavPack-encoded audio somehow crashes Foobar2000 with AltaCast DSP. This happens with 1.3.x the moment I click Connect in the AltaCast window.

Sadly the exception itself does not really help:

Unhandled exception at 0x77DF3215 (ntdll.dll) in foobar2000.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.

FLAC not working correctly

When I select to stream in OGG FLAC, on an Icecast server, and use a sample rate other than 44100, the speed of the audio is slowed down or sped up depending on the sample rate I choose.
For example, 22050 is half the speed of 44100, while 96000 is double the speed. 48000 is slightly faster.
Is this a bug?

Website problem

The website will not load without the WWW...
http://altacast.com
http://www.altacast.com

Windows 8/Windows 10 support?

Hello! As i have found no other contact possibility i am sorry to "spam" gihtub now with my "issue":

Anyway... Does Altacast support Windows 8 or 10? Talking about the stand alone version. If not, is support for both systems planned in the future?

Thanks!

Will not build in VS 2015

I have cloned project and attempted to build in vs 2015 and it will not build. I'm new to using github and not sure how to contact Dusty, so I'm hoping he will see issue.

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error MSB8020 The build tools for Visual Studio 2010 (Platform Toolset = 'v100') cannot be found. To build using the v100 build tools, please install Visual Studio 2010 build tools. Alternatively, you may upgrade to the current Visual Studio tools by selecting the Project menu or right-click the solution, and then selecting "Retarget solution". altacastStandalone C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Microsoft.Cpp.Platform.targets 55

I have been unsuccessful in retargetting as well and can't find a download of VS 2010.

Add further codecs from foobar2000 encoder pack

Hi,
I've always been a keen user of the AAC+ codecs, but the v2 (LC- and HE-) variants aren't available in the faac libraries. I see that foobar2000 uses several different available codecs, and wondered if you could add support for them in a future release of AltaCast?
Thanks,
Michael.

1.1 doesn't work correctly with AAC Plus

I'm not trying to use regular AAC, I'm using AAC Plus. I've had this encoder file (that's not listed on the Altacast website) so I'm not sure if you knew AAC Plus still worked in the program.
When using AAC Plus in Altacast 1.1, I'm unable to set the bit rate. The actual bit rate is stuck at a random number, even though the number in the Altacast config box I'm changing to something completely different. Altacast 1.0 didn't have this problem, it just worked. Also AAC Plus doesn't work in mono with Altacast 1.1, while in Altacast 1.0 mono worked up to 64 KBPS.
Here is a link to the encoder file I'm using for AAC Plus, just put this in your Altacast directory and the extra option will be there in the settings.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/6ltisr

passwords with special charecters are getting messed up

the password url escaping has an issue. ex. if you use password:#2 it turns into password%3A%232 which is fine but then the next time it's used its like password%3A%2323A32 then password%3A%2323A322323A32 and so on

identifier "PLVGROUP" is undefined

Hello, I am trying to compile the altacastStandalone project and I am having some afxcmn.h issues.

Do I have to include the commctrl.h header?

Here is the full traceback of one of those errors

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error (active) identifier "PLVGROUP" is undefined altacastStandalone c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\atlmfc\include\afxcmn.h 556

Thanks in advance!

Opus Support?

Feature request:
Can AltaCast be made to include opus support, please? It's a good audio format especially at low bitrates, and it's open source. https://www.opus-codec.org/

The RadioDJ version of AltaCast supposedly supports opus, however what about us users who don't use RadioDJ? I use the standalone version.

Opus streams not recognized by Icecast YP

Hi there DustyDrifter,
I'm having multiple issues with the Opus encoder built into Altacast for RadioDJ.
Track name field is not updated (stays blank).
Any Opus stream is not recognized by Icecast's YP.

When switched to Vorbis, suddenly everything works fine.
Any idea what might be the cause of these issues?
Thanks

FLAC support?

I remember that oddsock(-reborn) supported FLAC in an OGG container, how can I enable support in AltaCast?

AltaCast Winamp vorbis problem under wine (maybe not so serious)

For unknown reasons I decided to download altacastwinamp1.1 and tried it on Debian testing with wine.
The vorbis encoder which came with the download had problems connecting to icecast2, there was some error with the vorbis header in the log file of icecast2. I tried downloading libvorbis1.3.5.zip from http://www.rarewares.org/ogg-libraries.php (the generic version) and unzipped it. After making a backup of vorbis.dll in the Winamp directory, I renamed the unzipped 1.3.5 libvorbis.dll to vorbis.dll in the Winamp directory. After this the encoder connected to icecast2. Maybe this should be checked from a Windows machine too.

Altacast crashes on RDP access

Hi,
we have been using Oddcast/Edcast/Altacast for many years, having upgraded to Altacast last year.
We have a headless Windows 10 box running both Icecast 2.4.3 and Altacast.
Everything has been working fine until the last couple of months, when we noticed accessing the Altacast box using RDP caused issues. Connecting to it was no problem, but disconnecting RDP caused Altacast to stop working with no error messages. Restarting Altacast fixes it.
Not sure if it is us or a Windows update. We may need to rebuild it, but I thought I'd let you know in case you had seen this.
Thanks,
Dave