SHOUTcast paranoia...

[Digispeed03]

On New Year's Day I officially went "on the air" via a mp3 stream titled "Everything But Country" via SHOUTcast. The mp3s consisted of my 34+ GB and counting collection that I continue to digitize from CDs, cassettes and vinyl I have scattered around the house. I felt that it would be "selfish" to limit the collection to familial use via a network server on my LAN, so I decided to legally share. I set up the D.N.A.S. server and Winamp plug-in correctly and had no problems "broadcasting." A few days later, out of sheer curiosity, I entered "SHOUTcast server hack" at Google.com and noted that a C++ (VC++?) "hack" exists which allows a remote client to forcibly change the admin password of a server, kick off/change the number of listeners, etc. I also noted that this "hack" may be applied to the latest version of the plug-in, which is 1.9.2. I removed the server from SHOUTcast out of fear that it could potentially be hijacked to the point that my entire collection of mp3s could be damaged. Is this a justifiable concern, or am I merely overreacting? I've been converting my physical albums since November 14, 2003 and would hate to see so much work go down the drain. What do you think?

[Malakai1911]

Use Icecast.

It hit 2.0 status like a few days ago.

[Sephiroth]

This is a question you should really try asking on the Winamp Forums they have ones for shoutcast there and thats probably the best place you'd find an answer.

[Digispeed03]

Use Icecast.

It hit 2.0 status like a few days ago.

Cool!! I found Icecast.org and observed a Windows port called "Oddcast." And, to my liking, it works with Winamp 3, unlike Nullsoft's 1.9.2 which is limited to Winamp 2.91 and earlier.

[Digispeed03]

This is a question you should really try asking on the Winamp Forums they have ones for shoutcast there and thats probably the best place you'd find an answer.

Thanks. I checked the Forums page prior to starting this thread and really couldn't determine which one would answer this type of question. In hindsight, I realize a "search" would've done the trick.