Slackware :: Configuring Icecast (and/or Ices) On 13.37?

I'm sort of at my wit's end with this one, both with reading what i can of the documentation and online as well. I am running Slackware 13.37 32bit on my netbook and want to use it as a music server over my LAN.

I have many ogg and mp3 files on my machine I want to let people listen to on my local LAN. I have divided them by genre and placed (full path) into /home/icecast/$genre.pls on the machine that I would like to use to serve the music. The music files physically exist on the machine I would like to use as the server, so it's /home/user/Music/$genre/*. I made sure the icecast user on this machine ("asus") is a bonified user and has access to /home/user/Music/$genre as read-only (or read & execute for directories in it). The music stash on asus (the server) is /home/user/Music/$genre/$artist/$album/$title.$extension etc

I configured Icecast the best I know how, then realized I need Shoutcast itself. I configured Shoutcast the best I know how and fired it up with my playlists, same result. I have no streams/sources/anythings.

I've read everything and I don't know why it's not working. Does someone have any example configs for a LAN-only way to stream audio to others (friends) in a way that they cannot copy the music off (similar to shoutcast)?[URL]...

(Passwords and users were removed from the .xml/.conf but exist in the versions I am/was trying to use.)

Please note that it says .ogg but the file is actually a .pls style file (just a text file list of file names in static form, i.e. /home/user/Music/Rock/Who/Are/You.ogg) Icecast starts fine from other computers but no streams are listed. Shoutcast also loads fine from other computers but no streams are listed. I could swear I read or gathered from the pages I read that I can host right from specific .pls-type files (text file with a literal local file listing).