Icecast - Jun 2005 - mixed live- & playlist-streaming

hi everyone,

we're running a webradio-station focussed on electronic music
(http://www.play.fm), using icecast 2.2.0 (on SuSe Linux 9). we're
broadcasting 4 hours of live-program each day (using streamtranscoder).

what I would like to do is to stream a generated playlist of mp3-files during
the rest of t. day (using something like ezstream, which I have currently
installed & played around with). the problem is that I dont know any way to
do the switch automatically. at the moment I have to kill ezstream manually when
the live-show is starting, and start it again afterwards. of course I could use
a cronjob to do this, but as the starting- & end-times of the live-shows are
not met exactly (sometimes they start with little delay, more often they last
longer than planned) this wont work.

it would be great if the streamtranscoder could "kick" ezstream off
when it begins to send the live-stream...

I'm thankful for any suggestions,

greets,
mike
-- 
*Michael Kamleitner*
PLAY.FM
quartier21/MQ
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna 	mobile: +43-699-11607923
www: http://www.play.fm
email: michael.kamleitner@play.fm <mailto:michael.kamleitner@play.fm>
PLAY.FM :: Latest DJ Sets <http://www.play.fm>

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Michael Kamleitner wrote:
> it would be great if the streamtranscoder could "kick" ezstream
off when it
> begins to send the live-stream...
Have the ezstream mount as a fallback to the live stream - when the live 
stream dies it will go back to the ezstream mount and when the live 
stream comes back it will resume with that mount.