Icecast - Apr 2005 - Intro file automatically tagged on stream

Hi,

I am looking for a solution for a short station ident to be included at the 
start of our stream file.  Currently we have a short playlist, but this 
then doesn't work in itunes, and people can just click forward to go to the 
stream.

I hear that this is possible in Shoutcast, so hopefully there is something 
similar in icecast.  Yes I have asked this before and got our current 
solution from this list - but seeing as there have been many improvements 
to icecast since last year, perhaps there is a good solution available now!

Thanks in advance,
David Lea

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DSA Lea, Engineering 04
BURST Technical Director 2005/6

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 20:27, DSA Lea, Engineering 04
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a solution for a short station ident to be included at the
> start of our stream file.  Currently we have a short playlist, but this 
> then doesn't work in itunes, and people can just click forward to go to
the
> stream.
> 
> I hear that this is possible in Shoutcast, so hopefully there is something 
> similar in icecast.  Yes I have asked this before and got our current 
> solution from this list - but seeing as there have been many improvements 
> to icecast since last year, perhaps there is a good solution available now!
Not in the 2.2 release, I have been testing out the intro feature in my
branch and it seems to be working well, so that could go into 2.3 

Look either in SVN svn.xiph.org/icecast/branches/kh/icecast or get a
tarball from http://mediacast1.com/~karl/icecast-2.2-kh3.tar.gz

add <intro>/some/intro.ogg</intro> in the <mount>

The file should be in <webroot>/some/intro.ogg

The rules for intro files are the same for fallback mounts, ie same
format ie no mp3 intro for ogg stream and try to maintain the same
settings for samplerate and channels as many players are unable to
switch midstream.

Feel free to give feedback as that will help us decide which features
should be put into the main releases.

karl.

Thanks Karl,

It would be great if that feature could be integrated into the next 
release.  It seems to be a logical progression.

Does anyone know how I can make itunes (yes I know...) proceed to the next 
part of our short playlist (m3u file) so that the main stream starts up, 
instead of just playing the intro, bar removing the intro file.  I have 
found some source on the internet for my own system, but clearly other 
listeners are not going to want to fiddle!

Alternatively I may just have to sit it out for the next release!

Thanks again,
David Lea

--On 19 April 2005 21:05 +0100 Karl Heyes <karl@xiph.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 20:27, DSA Lea, Engineering 04 wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am looking for a solution for a short station ident to be included at
>> the  start of our stream file.  Currently we have a short playlist, but
>> this  then doesn't work in itunes, and people can just click
forward to
>> go to the  stream.
>>
>> I hear that this is possible in Shoutcast, so hopefully there is
>> something  similar in icecast.  Yes I have asked this before and got
our
>> current  solution from this list - but seeing as there have been many
>> improvements  to icecast since last year, perhaps there is a good
>> solution available now!
>
> Not in the 2.2 release, I have been testing out the intro feature in my
> branch and it seems to be working well, so that could go into 2.3
>
> Look either in SVN svn.xiph.org/icecast/branches/kh/icecast or get a
> tarball from http://mediacast1.com/~karl/icecast-2.2-kh3.tar.gz
>
> add <intro>/some/intro.ogg</intro> in the <mount>
>
> The file should be in <webroot>/some/intro.ogg
>
> The rules for intro files are the same for fallback mounts, ie same
> format ie no mp3 intro for ogg stream and try to maintain the same
> settings for samplerate and channels as many players are unable to
> switch midstream.
>
> Feel free to give feedback as that will help us decide which features
> should be put into the main releases.
>
> karl.
>
>


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DSA Lea, Engineering 04
BURST Technical Director 2005/6