Icecast - Nov 2020 - Pre-roll playing every time user disconnects and connects

I was trying to see if there's a way to configure it so that someone with a
weak network connection doesn't have to hear our pre-roll over and over
again.

Thanks 

Martin 

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On Fri, 20 Nov 2020, Mayiani, Martin Martine - mayianmm wrote:
> I remember some asked a question on the same ( Icecast pre-roll playing
every time user disconnects and connects back) and it is annoying.  Any work
around?
That's what that feature is.

What do you actualy want?

Cheers,
Geoff.

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You could simply serve your pre roll at the client side, eg, your player.
This way you can detect the mentioned situation and decide whether or not
to serve the pre roll.


On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 7:14 PM Mayiani, Martin Martine - mayianmm <
mayianmm at jmu.edu> wrote:
> I was trying to see if there's a way to configure it so that someone
with
> a weak network connection doesn't have to hear our pre-roll over and
over
> again.
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
>
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> > I remember some asked a question on the same ( Icecast pre-roll
playing
> every time user disconnects and connects back) and it is annoying.  Any
> work around?
>
> That's what that feature is.
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> What do you actualy want?
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2020, Yahav Shasha wrote:
> You could simply serve your pre roll at the client side, eg, your player.
> This way you can detect the mentioned situation and decide whether or not
> to serve the pre roll.
The trick here is to find a way of serving  the preroll without everyone 
hearing it.

I guess you could use some on connect logic to determine if it should be 
played, fire up a command line streamer which would stream it to its own 
mount point which is set to fall back to the main stream, then move the 
listener to that mount.  They would hear the preroll then drop back to the 
main stream when the streamer exits and drops off.

And of course there's the whole logic of when and when not to stream the 
preroll.

Cheers,
Geoff.