[icecast] ices2 - Unreasonable error?

[Karl Heyes]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 04:11, Michael Smith wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2003 03:33, Karl Heyes wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 17:45, Geoff Shang wrote:
> > > "/var/music/Rush/Different_Stages_(Disc_3)/11_Cinderella_Man.ogg"
> > > [2003-08-12  12:17:26] EROR playlist-builtin/playlist_read Cannot play
> > > same file twice in a row, skipping
> > >
> > > after trying several times to get a different filename, which it
> > > obviously didn't get, it gave up and killed off ices.
> > >
> > > Now, I just want to know why this limitation is there.  I can think of
> > > completely legitimate reasons for wanting to repeat a file that's just
> > > played.
> >
> > it's in because of the random playlist feature, disabling then check
> > isn't hard and could be stated by a param attribute.
> >
> 
> No, it's not. This check must not be disabled until someone (probably me) 
> finishes and integrates stream_rewrite. The check is crucial, currently.

well it's not so crucial now, the timer is BOS based not serial number
change based.  The quirk to watch for is that serial numbers won't
change on non-reencoded ogg streams from the playlist, and yes stream
rewrite would resolve that aspect. Unless you're seeing something I'm
not?

<p>karl.

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