Icecast dev - Aug 2004 - REQ: Parent Id

Hi,
> Here I go again.
>From my side: tnx for all your effort - you're doing a great job.
> This is the second patch, it adds the ability to override some YP settings
> on the server.
<SNIP value="patch description" />

As this was mentioned more then once on this list that it is desired to know if
ppl need certain features:
I want to confirm need for such a feature in Icecast!

Our radio-project is a community of various ppl scattered over Europe. Some DJs
always forget to set correct Metadata for their shows. As some of this Metadata
is _always_ the same it would be great to have the ability to set it
server-side.

Thomas

PS: This fallback scenario also would fit perfectly into our concept!

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Here I go again.

This is the second patch, it adds the ability to override some YP settings 
on the server.

<yp-override>1</yp-override>

If this is not set, we don't override the yp flag.

<yp-public>1</yp-public>

When this is set, the stream will be public or non public, according to 
it's content. This only works when yp-override is set. It allows to 
suppress yp reporting or to force it, or leave it under control of the 
source.

<yp-name>MyRadio</yp-name>

This will overwrite the name given by the source with the name specified 
here.

<yp-url><a
href="http://www.radio.com/myradio.html</yp-url">http://www.radio.com/myradio.html</yp-url</a>>

This will force a specific URL to be listed with the YP server. Omit to let 
the source control this.

<yp-genre>Mixed</yp-genre>

This will force a genre, as with all yp-* options, omit for the old 
behavior.

<yp-desc>My Super Duper radio station</yp-desc>

Override and force the station comment.

<yp-report-as>/myradio.ogg</yp-report-as>

This will override the URL given to the YP server for stream listening.
Now, before there is an outcry again, let me explain this one:

Assume you have a mountpoint. This mountpoint has a fallback. Now, your 
main mountpoint's source disconnects. It's YP information is removed.
So,
you're no longer listed.
Now, if the fallback is public, it would either always appear side by side 
with your main stream, but, even worse, if it's a no-mount, it would be 
useless. Nobody could listen to it, ever.
report-as solves this: If a fallback is set to report as the name of it's 
top-level stream, it will not register with YP unless it becomes active, 
becomes the highest level active stream in it's chain.
This will ensure that, even when there is a break in transmission or you're 
just playing your station jingle, your station will remain listed in YP, by 
the correct (primary) mount name.

<mount>
   <mount-name>/station.ogg</mount-name>
   <yp-override>1</yp-override>
   <yp-public>1</yp-public>
   <fallback-mount>/fallback.ogg</fallback>
</mount>

<mount>
   <mount-name>/fallback.ogg</mount-name>
   <no-mount>1</no-mount>
   <yp-override>1</yp-override>
   <yp-public>1</yp-public>
   <yp-report-as>/station.ogg</yp-report-as>
</mount>

This will keep your stream online, connectable and listed correctly 
whenever at least one of the streams has a source, building on the concept 
that a stream and it's fallback(s) are logically one station and should be 
seen as a single URL from the outside world.

Melanie
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And here's the patch, too :)

Forgot to attach it!

Melanie

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Before the official release of icecast2 1.0 (non beta) i would like to see
pid file management,
ive discussed this before on how to capture the pid, but ended up with alot
of bash rigamaroo that mounted to even more
headaches.

omething in the config file like
<pid>/path/to/icecast.pid</pid>

I would be willing to donate some bandwidth to xiph, to aleaviate this issue
that causes sever ps -ef | grep trauma ;)

Thanks in advance for any and all considereation

<p><p>Dave St John
Mediacast1 Administration

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On Tuesday 02 December 2003 02:14, Melanie wrote:
> Here I go again.
>
> This is the second patch, it adds the ability to override some YP settings
> on the server.
Can you also provide some (basic) documentation for new features you 
introduce? We went for a long time without any useful docs, now that oddsock 
has done the hard work to give us some, we want to keep them reasonably 
up-to-date.

Mike

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