Dear Icecast community, For several weeks I am running two IceCast2 streams. I am very pleased with the stability and performance of the Icecast application. Thumbs-up for the developers of this great piece of software!! The sources (live audio) are generated with two separated liveice-sn04 and streams to the remote Icecast servers. So far so good! Frequently one of the sources stops to stream .... no relation to the internet connectivity or other obvious reasons. In order not to lose the listeners I am planning to configure the Icecast servers with a fallback mount. This fallback mount should be generated on the Icecast servers itself in order to make it undependable of the feeding sources. The remote source will play a file or several files with an announcement that the broadcast is interrupted etc ... over and over. In this way there will always be an audio stream even during maintenance of the stream feeders. Done some reading how to set-up such a scheme and I believe I do understand how to configure the Icast servers for fallback and the override feature. Now here comes where I need your advice... Since the whole thing is depending on the availability of the /backup source, generated on the Icecast server itself I am looking for a robust mp3 and/or oogvorbis stream feeder that plays 24/7 the announcement file .... Checked the several recommended applications like Ices and so one ... but not sure which one to use. Knowing that the stream sources is giving me such a bad time I would like your recommendation which stream application you recommend in this set-up and or if you have any other recommendations how to proceed. Thanks in advance -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.10 - Release Date: 10-1-2005
Hi Ron, I'd definitely recommend Ices - seems like the most robust little thing in the world to me, although I'm not an expert, just a user. We use it (ices0 actually, because we wanted MP3 broadcasting) to broadcast our main radio stream at http://www.flatfourradio.co.uk and no complaints at all. Dan On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:42:25 +0100, Ron Blok <ronblok@wxs.nl> wrote:> Dear Icecast community, > > For several weeks I am running two IceCast2 streams. > I am very pleased with the stability and performance of the Icecast > application. > Thumbs-up for the developers of this great piece of software!! > > The sources (live audio) are generated with two separated liveice-sn04 and > streams to the remote Icecast servers. > So far so good! > Frequently one of the sources stops to stream .... no relation to the > internet connectivity or other obvious reasons. > In order not to lose the listeners I am planning to configure the Icecast > servers with a fallback mount. > This fallback mount should be generated on the Icecast servers itself in > order to make it undependable of the feeding sources. > The remote source will play a file or several files with an announcement > that the broadcast is interrupted etc ... over and over. In this way there > will always be an audio stream even during maintenance of the stream > feeders. > > Done some reading how to set-up such a scheme and I believe I do understand > how to configure the Icast servers for fallback and the override feature. > > Now here comes where I need your advice... > Since the whole thing is depending on the availability of the /backup > source, generated on the Icecast server itself I am looking for a robust mp3 > and/or oogvorbis stream feeder that plays 24/7 the announcement file .... > Checked the several recommended applications like Ices and so one ... but > not sure which one to use. > Knowing that the stream sources is giving me such a bad time I would like > your recommendation which stream application you recommend in this set-up > and or if you have any other recommendations how to proceed. > > Thanks in advance > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.10 - Release Date: 10-1-2005 > > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast >-- http://www.mcld.co.uk
Dan, Thanks for the recommendation .. Installed Ices ... and it works like a dream! Starting to think the stability of the liveice-sn04 application is less than I hoped. Are there any recommendations for a live audio streamer application? Regards Ron -----Original Message----- From: icecast-bounces@xiph.org [mailto:icecast-bounces@xiph.org]On Behalf Of Dan Stowell Sent: donderdag 13 januari 2005 10:12 To: icecast Subject: Re: [Icecast] Recomendations Hi Ron, I'd definitely recommend Ices - seems like the most robust little thing in the world to me, although I'm not an expert, just a user. We use it (ices0 actually, because we wanted MP3 broadcasting) to broadcast our main radio stream at http://www.flatfourradio.co.uk and no complaints at all. Dan On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:42:25 +0100, Ron Blok <ronblok@wxs.nl> wrote:> Dear Icecast community, > > For several weeks I am running two IceCast2 streams. > I am very pleased with the stability and performance of the Icecast > application. > Thumbs-up for the developers of this great piece of software!! > > The sources (live audio) are generated with two separated liveice-sn04 and > streams to the remote Icecast servers. > So far so good! > Frequently one of the sources stops to stream .... no relation to the > internet connectivity or other obvious reasons. > In order not to lose the listeners I am planning to configure the Icecast > servers with a fallback mount. > This fallback mount should be generated on the Icecast servers itself in > order to make it undependable of the feeding sources. > The remote source will play a file or several files with an announcement > that the broadcast is interrupted etc ... over and over. In this way there > will always be an audio stream even during maintenance of the stream > feeders. > > Done some reading how to set-up such a scheme and I believe I dounderstand> how to configure the Icast servers for fallback and the override feature. > > Now here comes where I need your advice... > Since the whole thing is depending on the availability of the /backup > source, generated on the Icecast server itself I am looking for a robustmp3> and/or oogvorbis stream feeder that plays 24/7 the announcement file .... > Checked the several recommended applications like Ices and so one ... but > not sure which one to use. > Knowing that the stream sources is giving me such a bad time I would like > your recommendation which stream application you recommend in this set-up > and or if you have any other recommendations how to proceed. > > Thanks in advance > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.10 - Release Date: 10-1-2005 > > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast >-- http://www.mcld.co.uk _______________________________________________ Icecast mailing list Icecast@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.11 - Release Date: 12-1-2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.12 - Release Date: 14-1-2005