Icecast - Aug 2004 - Switch to static file when stream unavailable...

I've combed through the archives and can't really find an answer to
this.

Essentially, I'm trying to set-up streaming for a college radio station. 
There are several programs which are syndicated that we apparently can't 
rebroadcast.  The easiest thing that came to mind was setting up a cron job 
to shut down liveice at the appropriate time, swap index pages on the web 
server making the link to stream unavailable, then switch back and re-start 
liveice later.

Instead of listeners who try to connect directly using a client during this 
time getting a 404 error, I was hoping to get icecast to default to a static 
mp3 when no encoder is connected.  I've tried getting liveice to restart and
feed icecast a playlist of this one file, but, because it's so short (6 
secs), I think, I get "error syncing mpeg" on winamp or connection
time-outs
on xmms, most of the time... unless I restart liveice in curses mode which 
seems to work for reasons unknown to me...

Any ideas?  Thanks!

Chris

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the way we do this is to have iceS on one mountpoint and liveice on 
another and we have a php script that logs into the icecast admin 
interface and switches the default mountpoint at a specified time so no 
matter how they connect to the stream (either direct client or .pls 
file) they still get the mountpoint we want them to see at that time.

-peter

On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 10:37 PM, Chris Riddell wrote:
> I've combed through the archives and can't really find an answer to
> this.
>
> Essentially, I'm trying to set-up streaming for a college radio
station.
> There are several programs which are syndicated that we apparently
can't
> rebroadcast.  The easiest thing that came to mind was setting up a cron 
> job
> to shut down liveice at the appropriate time, swap index pages on the 
> web
> server making the link to stream unavailable, then switch back and 
> re-start
> liveice later.
>
> Instead of listeners who try to connect directly using a client during 
> this
> time getting a 404 error, I was hoping to get icecast to default to a 
> static
> mp3 when no encoder is connected.  I've tried getting liveice to 
> restart and
> feed icecast a playlist of this one file, but, because it's so short (6
> secs), I think, I get "error syncing mpeg" on winamp or
connection
> time-outs
> on xmms, most of the time... unless I restart liveice in curses mode 
> which
> seems to work for reasons unknown to me...
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks!
>
> Chris
>
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