[Icecast] Forcing an ID on all mountpoints

[W2LIE]

Karl & All,
Thanks for the replies..  It looks like there might be 1,000 ways to skin
this cat.  I was even looking at the LiquidSoap Harbor code as well- but
only if I can run LiquidSoap as a service under CentOS.

73
Phil

On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:15:47 +0000, Karl Heyes <karl at xiph.org> wrote:
> On 02/11/10 19:35, W2LIE wrote:
>> I'm looking for a way to tag my live feeds via an audio announcement
>> every
>> 30 minutes or so using the Linux install of Icecast.
>>
>> Some of the feeds I control locally, and other feeds are from remote
>> locations - so implimenting this must be as painless as possible for
each
>> encoding location.
> 
> 
>> As of now, the best way I can think of to do this is by running 2
>> instances of Icecast.  Allowing the first instance to have the
>> announcement
>> as part of the "intro" tag, and kick each feed after 30 minutes, and
then
>> having the 2nd instance of Icecast relay all of the feeds from the
first
>> Icecast.  These will also be standard announcements, and not rotating
>> commercials.
> 
> You could do this although you don't need 2 icecasts, you can use 2 
> mountpoints. mount1 would be the initial feed (relay/source), but with a

> max listener duration of say 1800 seconds and a intro file, the second 
> mount (what listeners use) would be a relay of 127.0.0.1 mount1. The 
> relay would be dropped and and restarted.
> 
> Another/simpler way would be to run a source client every half an hour 
> that overrides the mount running the stream and play just the ID once, 
> the override moves the listeners and then the listeners fall back to the

> stream when finished.  So mount1 would be the normal stream for 
> listeners, mount2 would fed by a source client when you want the ID 
> played, mount2 would fallback/override mount1
> 
> karl.