[Icecast] RE: Two questions

[Dennis Heerema]

Karl Heyes schreef:

>On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 21:29, Murray Saul wrote:
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>>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.
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>ices can be signalled to skip to the next track (which will mean a
>reread of the playlist if it has changed)
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>>2. Is there a setting when the user first connects to play a *welcome* 
>>file (i.e. about the radio station, etc....)
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>Not in the trunk/releases, but I have some work in my branch for testing
>such a thing (svn or http://mediacast1.com/~karl/ kh6 is latest). Just
>add
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><intro>/path/to/intro.ogg</intro>
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>in the <mount> section relating to the stream. The filename is currently
>relative to <webroot>, so you can download it as a normal file as well.
>
>Using intro files is still subject to the same considerations as
>fallback mounts, ie same format as the stream they relate to, and stick
>to the same values for samplerate and channels.
>
>karl.
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Hi Karl,

Is there a windows version of your branch to?

I only found the KH58 version for windows and I'm intrested in the KH6 
version....

regards,

Dennis Heerema