On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:33:12 +1100, Michael Smith <mlrsmith@gmail.com> wrote:> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:56:32 +0200, Mohamed Eldesoky > <eldesoky.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:55:46 -0800 (PST), Karl Heyes <karl@xiph.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 21:29, Murray Saul wrote: > > > > I am happy using icecast/ices, but have two questions: > > > > > > > > 1. If I was using cron to schedule a switching of a playlist, can I do > > > > this without restarting icecast so that at a SPECIFIC TIME (let's say at > > > > exactly 3:00 pm) a new song can be played without interupting the user > > > > listening to the broadcast. > > > > > > ices can be signalled to skip to the next track (which will mean a > > > reread of the playlist if it has changed) > > > > > > > I tried it, it doesn't just reread !! > > You have to stop and start ices !!! > > Ices2 (if that's still what we're talking about) can and will reread a > playlist file if it has changed.So will ices0 - that's what I use, and I nudge it along all the time. There is one significant problem with ices0 which is that if you nudge it while it's playing *the very last* entry in a playlist, it seems to fail - i.e. it stops pumping and needs to be restarted. Mohammed, does this match your situation? If so then you're out of luck (and so am I) since ices0 is not being developed. You just have to avoid nudging it when it's on the last track... Dan
> > If so then you're out of luck (and so am I) since ices0 is not being > developed. You just have to avoid nudging it when it's on the last > track...Whilst I don't use ices0 myself, I can tell you that that's wrong - ices0 is (somewhat) actively developed, and if you reported this bug (preferably using our bug reporting system at http://bugs.xiph.org), I'd expect it to get fixed. Mike
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:43:23 +1100, Michael Smith <mlrsmith@gmail.com> wrote:> > > > If so then you're out of luck (and so am I) since ices0 is not being > > developed. You just have to avoid nudging it when it's on the last > > track... > > Whilst I don't use ices0 myself, I can tell you that that's wrong - > ices0 is (somewhat) actively developed, and if you reported this bug > (preferably using our bug reporting system at http://bugs.xiph.org), > I'd expect it to get fixed.Really? I'm sorry, I thought ices0 had been ditched/frozen since xiph had decided to focus on ogg and ices2. I'll report it straightaway. Dan
On Thursday, 17 February 2005 at 12:20, Dan Stowell wrote:> So will ices0 - that's what I use, and I nudge it along all the time. > There is one significant problem with ices0 which is that if you nudge > it while it's playing *the very last* entry in a playlist, it seems to > fail - i.e. it stops pumping and needs to be restarted.are you sure you don't just have a blank line at the end of your playlist? That controls whether ices loops at the end or not. Does it loop if you don't send it usr1?
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:40:09 -0800, Brendan Cully <brendan@xiph.org> wrote:> On Thursday, 17 February 2005 at 12:20, Dan Stowell wrote: > > So will ices0 - that's what I use, and I nudge it along all the time. > > There is one significant problem with ices0 which is that if you nudge > > it while it's playing *the very last* entry in a playlist, it seems to > > fail - i.e. it stops pumping and needs to be restarted. > > are you sure you don't just have a blank line at the end of your > playlist?yep.> That controls whether ices loops at the end or not. Does it > loop if you don't send it usr1?it does, indeed, for weeks and weeks and weeks (very pleased with its robustness) - our station is just a loop from ices: http://www.flatfourradio.co.uk Dan